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Written by Stephen Dobie
The tuned Ferrari 458 scene typically borders on sacrilege. Sometimes, it involves bunging a couple of turbos at the wonderful-as-it-is 4.5-litre V8 that lives amidships. Others, it means hammering on a body kit or lurid colour that"d look tacky on a Saxo VTR. Occasionally it"s both. But this tuned Ferrari 458? Well, just listen to the music in the trailer video. It"s classy. The engine has been left well alone. The body is just as sublime as it was when Pininfarina first brushed pencil across sketch pad. This, ladies and gents, is a 458 Italia manual. Let"s briefly wind back to 2009. A year of turmoil. Sure, the credit crunch (remember that?) was in full swing. but of far greater impact on our lives, Ferrari launched its stock V8 supercar without a manual gearbox option for the first time. The 458 Italia looked wondrous indeed, it proved to be wondrous but it came only with a seven-speed DCT paddleshift box which it shared with an actual Mercedes.
Date written: 7 Jun 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 15950
The tuned Ferrari 458 scene typically borders on sacrilege. Sometimes, it involves bunging a couple of turbos at the wonderful-as-it-is 4.5-litre V8 that lives amidships. Others, it means hammering on a body kit or lurid colour that"d look tacky on a Saxo VTR. Occasionally it"s both. But this tuned Ferrari 458? Well, just listen to the music in the trailer video. It"s classy. The engine has been left well alone. The body is just as sublime as it was when Pininfarina first brushed pencil across sketch pad. This, ladies and gents, is a 458 Italia manual. Let"s briefly wind back to 2009. A year of turmoil. Sure, the credit crunch (remember that?) was in full swing. but of far greater impact on our lives, Ferrari launched its stock V8 supercar without a manual gearbox option for the first time. The 458 Italia looked wondrous indeed, it proved to be wondrous but it came only with a seven-speed DCT paddleshift box which it shared with an actual Mercedes.
Date written: 7 Jun 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 15950
