FERRARI 458 Spider 2013

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The new Ferrari 458 Spider joins the 458 Italia, widening the vary of Ferrari's mid-rear engined V8s and providing a similar uncompromising  technological solutions, handling and performance in a very refined open-top configuration. it's equipped with a Ferrari proprietary, absolutely retractile laborious high, a world initial for a sports automobile with this lay-out.

The 458 Spider is powered  by Ferrari's naturally-aspirated, direct-injection four.5 liter V8 that was nominative because the 2011 International Engine of the Year for its engineering excellence in terms of driveability, performance, economy and refinement. the facility is transferred to the road by Ferrari's class-leading dual-clutch F1 paddle-shift transmission through the subtle E-Diff, itself integrated with the F1-Trac traction management and superior ABS for max handling dynamics.

Certain options, like its foot pedal mapping and also the damping of the multilink suspension, are graduated to ensure most sportiness and absolute driving pleasure with the highest down, in line with Maranello's exclusive spider tradition. Even the engine audio recording has been honed to make sure that the car's occupants area unit utterly captivated by the drop-top driving expertise.

Entirely in metallic element, the hard-top answer adopted for the Ferrari 458 Spider offers variety of benefits over the normal folding soft-top, as well as a discount of twenty five metric weight unit in weight and a readying time of simply fourteen seconds. absolutely integrated into the styling of the automobile, the hard-top was designed to suit showing neatness previous the engine bay while not compromising aeromechanics or the performance of the automobile. the tiny area required to accommodate the roof allows the designers to incorporate a generous rear bench for baggage behind the seats.

The rear of the automobile is characterized by innovative forms with the buttresses designed to optimise the flow of air to the engine intakes and also the clutch and casing oil radiators. for max comfort while driving high down the Ferrari 458 Spider options a generously-sized adjustable electrical wind stop. the look was formed to slow and diffuse the air within the cockpit, sanctioning traditional speech communication to be control even at speeds over two hundred km/h.

New technical solutions adopted for the chassis guarantee identical levels of structural rigidity with the roof up or down. The result's a automobile that's really exciting to drive, mixing extreme performance with the responsiveness that has forever characterized Ferrari's open-top berlinettas.

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