YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE looking at, so let's just cut to the chase. The Ferrari 458 Spider will be a brilliant thing. If you have spare P25 million (or thereabouts), you should go and buy one.
Mechanically, everything is carried over from its coupe twin, so the direct-injection, naturally aspirated 4.5-liter V8 still produces 562hp and 540Nm of torque, delivered to the rear wheels via twin clutch gearbox. Some adjustments have been made to make sure the droptop experience is a fabulous as it can be--the accelerator mapping and damping have both been altered, and the engine note has been tweaked to make sure "the car's occupant are completely captivated".
In other words, it's going to make a lot of noise with the roof down. If the coupe is anything to go by, it'll make that noise (snorty, blaring) at all times from every direction, which might get a bit wearisome. We'll be finding out soon enough. The roof mechanism is neat, though -- an all aluminum hard top that flips back Renault Wind-style to store beneath the engine cover in a showy operation that is claimed to take 14 seconds. Ferrari also reckons the hardtop solution is 25kg lighter than the equivalent soft-top. All up, the 458 Spider weighs 1,430kg, or 50kg more than the coupe--and, although Ferrari hasn't said as much yet, is likely to cost about P1.2million more, too.
Other features include rear buttresses designed to maximized airflow into the intakes, and also an electric wind deflector claimed to permit normal conversation at 200kph. Just what you need when you're trying to impress the gorgeous occupant of the car's passenger seat.
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