It may have taken McLaren around 20 years since the legendary F1 to create its second road car, the 12C, but it’s making up for lost time. The new 650S splits the difference between the latter car – which came out only a few years ago – and the new, insanely powerful hybrid P1. Other […] More »
By: Derek Shiekhi | February 20, 2014
McLaren has plans to make Ferrari’s 458 Speciale seem less specialé err… Special. They’lll be starting from a great place: the 12C. Specifically, its twin-turbo V8 – tuned to around 650 horsepower – and carbon-fiber chassis. Autocar also mentions the possibility of standard carbon-ceramic brake hardware. To improve its aerodynamics, the English firm will graft some features […] More »
By: Derek Shiekhi | February 18, 2014
Whether the above photo makes you laugh or cry, my gut tells me that’s just the response Canadian music producer, Joel Zimmerman wanted to elicit when he followed through with an October 2013 promise to deck his Ferrari 458 Italia out in a Nyan Cat vinyl wrap. Joel, better known as Deadmau5, is an electronic […] More »
By: Tim Wu | February 17, 2014
The Chevrolet Corvette has the Performance Data Recorder, and now the Ferrari F12berlinetta, 458 Speciale and LaFerrari have a similar system named Ferrari Telemetry. What is it? Ferrari says it “allows you to monitor your car’s position and analyze its performance by recording all your driving sessions” on, or off-track while displaying the data on […] More »
By: Manuel Carrillo III | January 20, 2014
If you want to ride along on one of the most blatant exhibitions of speed ever caught on camera, the video below is your ticket, which is something the driver of the speeding Ferrari 458 Italia could have received, plus some time in a Contra Costa County or Marin County jail. In the first part […] More »
By: Manuel Carrillo III | December 16, 2013
We recently had a chance to drive the Lamborghini Gallardo on Exotic’s Racing track in Las Vegas, NV, but we lamented that we couldn’t do a head-to-head comparison with a Ferrari 458. Now, one of our sister sites has had a chance to drive them both (albeit on public roads) one after the other. What […] More »
By: Yoav Gilad | December 6, 2013
In the four years the Ferrari 458 has been on sale, it has been enrolled in the happiest recesses of our hearts and minds. If the car were a student, it would have its bachelor’s degree badassology. To celebrate the 458’s matriculation into graduate studies, Ferrari has come out with a new version: the 458 […] More »
By: Manuel Carrillo III | November 25, 2013
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