The Tempesta is measured at 58 dB at 160 km/h on smooth asphalt. By comparison, a Eurostar first-class cabin at rest measures approximately 63 dB. A library reading room, 40.

Achieving those five decibels of improvement over a train at rest required seventeen distinct composite layers in the firewall — a bulkhead so engineered that we had to source a custom press in Frankfurt to cure it at temperature.

Silence, in a grand tourer, is the most expensive material. The Tempesta cabin uses eleven kilograms of it.