Ferrari 458
As the auto industry gears up for the 2011 Frankfurt auto show, Ferrari has released the first official photos of the 2012 Ferrari 458 Spider, the roofless iteration of the mid-engine 458 Italia. Other than losing its lid and gaining some structural enhancements, the Ferrari 458 Spider will be largely identical to its coupe counterpart.
Ferrari 458
Hooray for More V-8 Wail
Besides shaving the Ferrari 458’s head, Ferrari altered the car’s throttle mapping, suspension tuning, and “engine soundtrack” specifically for topless motoring. The task of dialing in the sound of the 458’s tightly wound 4.5-liter V-8 for droptop duty seems to us like a two-step process. Step one: Remove roof. Step two: Rev engine. Regardless, the Spider’s soundtrack should be hugely satisfying, produced as it is by the same sonorous 562-hp engine as is used in the Ferrari 458 Italia. That power is routed through the same seven-speed dual-clutch automatic as is used in the coupe to the same torque-vectoring differential. The 458 Spider also inherits the coupe’s F1-Trac traction-control and performance anti-lock-brake system.
Ferrari 458
Ferrari claims the Spider will run to 62 mph from a standstill in less than 3.5 seconds before romping on to a top speed in excess of 198 mph. In a recent comparison test, we kicked a Ferrari 458 Italia to 60 mph in just 3.0 seconds, so the Spider’s figure is probably a bit conservative.
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