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_ I’ve been writing a number of stories about the all-wheel drive, four-seat Ferrari FF for Ferrari News, the Ferrari North America monthly e-newsletter for owners and enthusiasts. An amazing car if you have the bucks, with a 651-horsepower V12 and that lightning-quick dual-clutch seven-speed transmission.

Of course, I wasn’t the only car enthusiast who remembered another four-seat, four-wheel drive European GT called the FF. That would be the Jensen Interceptor variant that used the Ferguson Formula four-wheel drive system, plus an early kind of anti-lock brakes. Jensen made just  315 FFs from 1966-1971. Because the driveshaft to the front differential precluded left-hand drive, the FF was not sold in the U.S. alongside the Interceptor. There are, however, a handful of Jensen FFs in the country.

In its day, the Jensen FF probably made the ultimate winter vacation car, and the Ferrari FF brings back that concept for the very well-heeled.

Classic Driver, a British online magazine, took readers’ FFs – a classic Jensen and a new Ferrari – to St. Moritz, Switzerland for some mountain driving. The 40+ year-old Jensen, with its 300-horsepower Chrysler V8 and TorqueFlite automatic transmission, still acquits itself quite nicely along the scenic the Engadin Valley roads. And that Interceptor design still looks great. (Something else I wrote on the Jensen Interceptor and FF.)