458 Speciale Revealed

Sounds like your car is eating the brakes... My Italia had 1% at the front and 2% at the rear after 15000 miles incl. a couple of trackdays...

 

Down to driving style perhaps?

 

how many km did you make on race track on that weekend? 3 days could mean 300 km but even 1.000 km or more are possible . Btw I have seen the front tires of an Italian Speciale with less than 300 km (on race track) with an abnormal consumption of the external part of the front tires. The rear tires were ok. We arrived at the conclusion that the Speciale needs some "tuning" of the front angles . Typical tuning made by all those addicted pilots that attend to race track events.I should have a pic somewhere of those tires. About disk or brake pads, no one complain at the moment so it sounds strange to me even because we are speaking about the last generation of brake disks/pads that should survive at least 3-4 times more than the standard ones.

 

I have a video of one Speciale from France (white one) , running at SPA circuit. Is that your car?

 

I stumbled into this video review of the 458 Speciale. I couldn't understand a word he said (all Greek to me), but it's really fun to watch

Ferrari 458 Speciale by DRIVE Magazine (English subtitles) - YouTube

 

Beautiful spec (in my opinion) seen in Warsaw, Poland.

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I wasn't a huge fan of the carbon side skirts on the Scuderia, but it seems to work fantastically with the new Speciale.

 

For English subtitles, click on the "Turn on Captions" button.

 

finally I can confirm the first official result on Vairano race track (as I wrote before Quattroruote magazine was testing the car officially ). Speciale best lap time is : 1'12"499
Few pages ago I posted the lap times of that race track but you can even check them below.Btw impressive first official result... Vairano Handling Course lap records - FastestLaps.com

 

enjoy the video here: Giro di Pista Ferrari 458 Speciale di Davide Fugazza - Video Gallery - Quattroruote.it

 

Quattroruote results 458 Speciale (458)

0-100 Km/h : 3,0 (3,3 s)
0-160 Km/h : 6,1 (6,5 s)
0-200 Km/h : 9,1 (9,7 s)
0-400m : 10,7s (11,0s)
0-1000m : 19,4s (19,8s)
weight : 1456 Kg (1533kg) (-77 kg )
As expected the 90Kg declared weight reduction was a bit optimistic.

Luque

 

Amazing results nonetheless!!!

 

Strange ... shifting up too early when he was ending the best lap ...
Anyway nice sound and good handling

Luque

 

ciao Luque...the weight is good if as usual, this is including the fuel.They declare 1.395 kg with fluids..but not fuel included..
Full report here: ROAD TESTS - 458 Speciale full review Quattroruote | German Car Forum

 

Has anyone speced out a white Speciale with the Nart stripe? And maybe blue calipers??

Looked through this entire thread and can't seem to find a pic.

 

Very unique look.
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Another interesting video review of a Speciale.

Ferrari 458 Speciale road test (English subtitled) - YouTube

 

Back to the ebrake, at least on my Porsche Turbo the handbrake is the last resort to stop it sliding on ice, just wonder how easy that is with the e-brake as it probably doesn't have that much feel as the old style hand item ?

 

FERRARI 458 Speciale Review + Hi-res photos
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I like! Wow.

 

Great video! Thanks for the link.

 

looks good

 

What is the difference btw the standard seat and the 2 optional seats? Also, is it standard to have alcantera sheel on seats w tech fabric inserts or is the alacantera shell optional also? Can't tell from spac sheet. Thanks.

 

The standard seat comes in alcantara shell (color changes are extra) and tech fabric inserts of 5 colors, I believe (black, white, red, blue and yellow). The other two seats available are the italia race seats and the Goldrake seat (F12) each at about $5k. I like the standard seat the best. The other racing seats seem dated somehow to me.

 

Thank you... I guess the upper dash is std alacantera but the lower is optional? And doors? Finalizing order Tuesday for July production and can't seem to find configurer on website... Want to get jump start on order before I get to dealer.

 

I'd prefer not to have any type of antenna on the roof (see picture). The US Speciale comes standard with audio system, NAV, SAT radio and telemetry. I believe the roof antenna is for the NAV, SAT radio and telemetry. Am I correct?

Although these options are standard on the US Speciale, can we choose to order the car without any or all of these options?
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