Ferrari 812 GTS

The 812 GTS is Ferrari's first series-production front-engined V12 convertible in roughly half a century - the last one was the Daytona Spider. Under the bonnet is a 6.5-litre naturally aspirated V12 making around 790 hp, with no turbochargers and no hybrid assistance. That combination is now a historical object as much as a car.

Front-engined cars film differently to mid-engined ones. The mass sits ahead of the cabin, so the car looks pulled rather than pushed and the nose earns more screen time than it would on a Lamborghini. The long bonnet also gives you something almost nothing else in the room has: a wide, slow-curving plane big enough to show a highlight travelling across it as the camera moves.

Take the roof off and you lose the line that ran from windscreen to tail, so the interior stops being a supporting shot and becomes part of the exterior shape. Indoors that means the seats and the dash have to be as carefully lit as the paint, because they're now in every profile frame. An open Ferrari with a dull interior looks like an open Ferrari with something missing.