Any news about the rev limiter ???
The 3.9-litre twin-turbo motor and seven-speed dual clutch gearbox of the 488 GTB are carried over unchanged for the Spider. Put simply, they make an astounding partnership. Freakishly devoid of turbo lag, Ferrari has created an engine that responds with an almighty kick up the diffuser from 2,000rpm, and never abates that thrust until the 8,000rpm redline. evo.co.uk
This statement and derivatives there of have been issued for the past 6 months. The question still remains has anyone on earth actually driven a 488 that reved past 7500 rpm. Apparently not
Yes, evo has. It's a review. They're talking about their experience of driving the car. Do you expect them to spell out, word for word, that they were actually looking at the rev counter and, yes, they actually saw it going to 8K?
Yes Hold on to your NA Fcars people, the supercar as we know it is dying out Took my despicable Italia out with Stevenb last night: there will NEVER be a more EPIC car produced in all eternity, regardless of price Being it's successor is really like succeeding L van Beethoven, or Leonard Bernstein, there is nowhere to go but down
"...there's an unsubtle imprudence to the way the boost hits the back wheels, then there's an audible whine from the puffers all the way to the still-exotic 8k redline." R&T. And, yes, it's a review again, not a press release.
I've also seen all of these references. I'm waiting to hear from an actual forum member that has driven the car past 7500 rpm. Amazing that someone in the world hasn't pop up and verified. I'm sure they will soon.
I got a private message from one of our forum members who claims he's driven a 488 that revved to 8000 rpm and took a video of it. I PM'd him back and asked why he didn't post the info and video right into the thread for everyone to read. I have not recieved a response.
No, what's amazing is that the word of all these people who've driven the car, the images and videos from Ferrari and the fact that ************ of 8K doesn't seem to be good enough for you.
Not sure why you would make such a statement. 13252 members have read this thread and 186 have commented. If this thread offends you, why do you continue to participate on it. I'm the guy on this forum that has consistantly been a supported of the new 488. I've also said that it is just not possible that the 488 won't rev limit at 8000+ rpm. It is just astonishing, at least to me, that this can't be verified. The general manager of my dealership ran this all the way up the flagpole at Ferrari Italy and was unable to get confirmation. His personal response to me was that he suspects it will exceed 7500 rpm when utilizing launch control. I told him that just can't be the case. Makes no sense. Anyway, we'll all know soon enough.
There is something similar going on with the RS. It is supposed to rev to 8800 down from 9000 on the Gt3. But in reality it is hitting the limiter at 8600.
This topic is getting so old. Whether it redlines at 7500 or 8000, it doesn't matter. It's still well under 9000. Who the freakin cares. Wait until the car comes out and confirm.
Sorry for not giving you any "valuable" opinion. It seems like after 191 responses and still no one knows if the rev limiter is 7500 or 8000 (including the dealer themselves) tells me that it's time to move on. Wishful thinking for those getting 488 is it hopefully will redline at 8000. It would certainly suck if it's at 7500. It won't even come close to 458 nor will it sound as visceral as 458.
Forum member h2c sent me this photo of him shifting the 488 about 7500 rpm. He says it revved freely to 8000 in every gear. He also has a 488 on order. He's driven the 488 several times and said the recent ones he drove felt faster and sounded better than the first cars. He also experienced the 7500 rpm limit in the early cars he drove. For those interested getting the new 488 GTB , this should be good news. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Not offended. Just curious as to why all these first hand accounts of the car revving to 8K are dismissed and only the say so of someone on this forum will do. Is everybody else lying? It's been documented so many times I can't understand why you're still asking the question. So, are you satisfied now that a forum member has told you what you already knew?
Cpiguy just wanted a straight answer and no one seemed to be able to deliver a definite answer, until now. Like most Ferrari owners, we love the high revving engines and sound. So it concerns us if the rev limiter is set at only 7500rpm when we're used to a 8500-9000 redline. We know the 488 redline is at 8000 so we want that extra 500rpm, especially when the engine revs so quickly to redline. I've been following this thread with great interest also and admire Cpiguy's persistence in finding the right answer. I'm overjoyed to hear that earlier models seem to have the rev limiter set at 7500 but production cars will be able to rev freely to 8000 rpm. My real concern is the sound. From all the many videos I've seen, the sound from the inside is very disappointing. Very deep, throaty sound and none of the high pitched sounds I'm accustomed with Ferrari. I think my 430 sounds better. Although sound is extremely important to me, I think I'm willing to move on to something new since I've had my 430 for over 7 years since new.
Thanks CChung. If you haven't received yours before I get mine, we can take her out for a nice run and you'll be able to decide by actually hearing it. I still think it sounds pretty good, even though the tone is definitely different than the 458. I truly have zero bias, and can tell you the 458 does sounds better. I wish Ferrari could have done something better with the exhaust, but certainly not a deal breaker for me. Pretty much everything else about the car is an improvement over the 458, especially the power which is intoxicating.
But that's the point - those that have driven the car have already provided the definitive answer in every test that's been published. I can't understand why all these first hand accounts are being treated as if they don't exist.
