Ferrari Fever
Exclusive presentation of the 458 Italia in Maranello. World Première of the new Ferrari 8-cylinder Berlinetta with Chairman Luca di Montezemolo. Exclusive images from the event's gala dinner.
The Ferrari 458 Italia is a mid-engined sports car to be produced by the Italian sports car manufacturer Ferrari, as the replacement for the Ferrari F430.
Ferrari has not announced a price or even the start-date for production, but the 458 Italia was officially unveiled at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show on15 September 2009. However, there have been sightings of the car in Switzerland and the Netherlands.
It replaces the outgoing F430… and, judging by the numbers, it's going to be simply astonishing.
First, the engine: a new 4.5-litre direct injection V8 putting out – ready for this? – 420kW. That’s 58kW more than the current F430, and 38kW more than the Scuderia.
325km/h fast, in fact. And a 0-100km/h time of ‘less than 3.4 seconds’. That is unbelievably quick: the F430 hits 100km/h in four seconds flat, and even the Scud can only manage a three-point-six. In fact, it’s even faster than an Enzo.
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Jorrik records the very first Ferrari 458 Italia in the Netherlands!! It just arrived yesterday morning!
We drove on a highway in the Netherlands when a Ferrari 348 past us, so we decided to follow it and we came out at Kroymans (Ferrari/Aston Martin/Maserati) in Hilversum. In the garage we saw this great Ferrari 458 Italia, we waited half an hour and than it came out for a little testride! Please watch the whole vid, at the end can you see how incredible fast this new Ferrari is!
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Jorrik.
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Chris Harris puts Ferrari's 458 through a track workout
Nick Rufford test-drives the Ferrari 458 Italia at the track at Fiorano, Italy, for The Sunday Times
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Wow. If you've ever been lucky enough to drive a 430 Scuderia and thought you'd reached motoring nirvana, then I'm afraid the world has just moved on. The Ferrari 458 Italia makes that car very old school...
The latest all-new Ferrari is the most useable yet - a racer for the road but with more than a nod in the direction of GT talents as well. To that end, there's a dual-clutch gearbox as standard, complete with full auto mode, as well as adaptive damping, a 4.5-litre V8 which revs to 9,000rpm and produces 570bhp and 398lb ft, a steering rack with two turns lock to lock, plus the usual electronic trick diff.
Suffice to say, it's neither slow nor boring. The noise is epic (we found a long tunnel and it sounded like we were sat slap bang in the middle of an F1 car because the exhaust baffles open at 2,500rpm) and the way the pace builds through all the gear changes is far too addictive to be legal. These are seriously quick up and down shifts, although not quite as mechanical and brutal as the F1 gearbox on the Scuderia.
But the single best thing about this 458 is that it's not intimidating. Switch the adaptive damping to the Bumpy Road' setting and there isn't a supercar out there which rides as well. And because everything is so intuitive - from the steering to the gearbox, even the satnav controls - you feel immediately at home in it. Nothing shocks, nothing surprises.
The whole thing feels modern. If we're going to be honest, the Scuderia wore its technology rather reluctantly. But the 458 has been designed with it from the outset, so even the satnav now feels like a proper satnav system, not some botched after-market thought.
Perhaps the greatest compliment we can pay the 458 is that it no longer feels like it needs a Challenge Stradale or Scuderia version. The 458 does it all. And does it bloody well.
Ferrari the suuuuper sexy car...pick up you's now.
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