Enzo Ferrari was born in Turin, Italy on February 20th, 1898. To celebrate, Los Angeles members of the Ferrari Club of America descended on the Petersen Automotive Museum last Saturday for a free car show. The LA Times Auto Writer rolled up in a 458 Spyder, and there were plenty of Daytonas, several ’60s-era Lussos, a handful […] More »

The corkscrew at Laguna Seca is a notoriously tricky bit of track, and during this year’s Ferrari Challenge, driver Ryan Ockey had a particularly bad time with it. It’s unclear what happened exactly, but given that it barely looks like the car slows at all, I’d like there was some kind of brake problem—he came […] More »

Ferrari just passed the 8,000,000 followers mark on Facebook. To celebrate, the company posted this video of a 458 drifting and doing donuts. And it could have been brilliant—but it isn’t. So while it might seem silly to critique a video showing one of the world’s finest sports cars being flogged like a winter beater, I’m going to do it anyway.

Hollywood’s Rent-in-Style rents out six-figure exotic cars, fulfilling automotive dreams for anyone with enough coin. So when owner Eric Blumberg lent out a 2010 Ferrari 458 Italia at a rate of $2,000 per day, then noticed via GPS tracking that the car hadn’t moved in days, he knew something was up. Here’s how he took down a theft ring.

OK, I have to admit that when I heard the words “Stance Works” and “Ferrari” in the same sentence, I was apprehensive. When I heard  the subject of the shoot was a 458? Despondent. I figured I’d see this glorious driver’s car sporting a crippling offset and rendered utterly useless. But sometimes it’s nice to be wrong.

This is Eric Clapton’s one-off Ferrari 458 SP12 leaving a London dealership. The SP stands for “Special Program,” and the 12 presumably stands for “2012.” With the two-tone paint and b-pillar tweaks, it invokes the dead-sexy looks of the BB 512, and according to the YouTube description, it was originally supposed to sport a V12.