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Ferrari 458 Italia: Comments on Design

June 5, 2018 By pete


By Wallace Wyss

This article originally appeared in VeloceToday August 6, 2009

The King is dead…long live the King. Wasn’t that what they always said in the old movies? Anyhow, the sneak shots of the Ferrari 458 Italia are out a couple of months before its official roll-out, at least enough photos to enable this design critic to form an opinion and submit it ever so humbly to the cognoscenti, i.e., you.

The Ferrari 458 Italia is a robust-looking car; to sum it up in one sentence: “it takes the bizarre out of the Enzo” yet saves enough of the old car to make an all-new shape that is reminiscent of the late Enzo but still its own design. Although it may replace the 430, the 458 might be considered an “Enzo light”.

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Ferrari 458 Italia’s Winning Year In English and Italian

December 21, 2011 By Roberto

Ferrari 458

By Roberto Motta

Photos courtesy of Ferrari-Media

For Ferrari’s 458 Italia, 2011 was an exceptional year. In addition to the many awards and accolades from the international press, the Prancing Horse berlinetta won many successes in major national and international GT racing.
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Ferrari 458 Tech Bits

August 11, 2009 By Wally


This week, what’s under the skin of the new Ferrari.

What we know so far about the new Ferrari V8

By Wallace Wyss

Technically the new Ferrari 458 Italia advances the art of the road going mid-engined car by making it almost as fast as the Enzo at a much lower cost.

The 458 Italia is going to be marketed with an automatic, seven-speed dual-clutch transmission designed to increase performance and still deliver very smooth shifts even at full throttle. The engineers have developed specific, sportier gear ratios to match the power and torque curves of the new V8, knowing that high torque is the key to acceleration even at lower engine speeds.
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