One thing were the LFA exeads any Ferrari is quality, and maybe that is what makes the LFA more special. I mean it is built "like" a Pagani. I just think it is a pity for Ferrari/Maserati, Porsche was the same but it has changed. Just sit in the new Boxster, you don't want to get out of it.
I respectfully beg to differ. Ferraris are quality machines, but their reliability is neither here nor there. With the introduction of the Honda (Acura) NSX, their hand was forced in improving their quality/reliability and they have from what they were in the 1980's. They were one of the first (but not
THE first) to pioneer aluminum construction, and the number of innovations that was introduced in F1 that has trickled down into their road car is downright impressive. And the cars they make are still very special.
But....it's all expected and presumed. Case in point, their interior, save for the HVAC vents and some detailing on top of the interior tunnel, it's an amalgam of FF and 458. There's very little differentiation between its models. While I am absolutely sure the drive will provide a sense of occasion, it'd be nice to have their high-end car provide some occasion from its "lesser" brethren in terms of interior differentiation. I feel you can get away with that in a M-B or BMW, but I expect a bit more form Ferrari. But, again, the quality is there. Now if the folks at Ferrari can do something about those pesky self-combustion.
Whether it's built like a Pagani, that's also debatable. It's all very bespoke, the LFA is. And although there is some artistic liberties taken, it's all very perfunctory compared to Huayra. It's the age-old principle of form following function. Whereas Paganis, especially the Huayras, are a work of bloody art. It's not form following function, it's form
and function working simultaneously, if that makes any sense. Pagani's mandate was that it had to look impeccably special and work well at the same time. What both the Paganis and LFAs are uncompromised and made with OCD-level attention. Everything is there for a specific purpose. And in that sense, it is built "like" a Pagani, in that the engineers approached both projects as such. Pagani does take it further though, i.e. matching and aligning carbon fiber weaves, forming gauge clusters out of a single piece of milled aluminum, etc.
