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I was driving home late last night and came off the freeway to a deserted street. It was well lit, three lanes across and just for fun floored it...
A few tips to get it right: 1) in VDA make sure the car is in "go" mode - engine, brakes and tires all green. Do this to get a good time, but...
One of the frustrating things about the 458 is the lack of documentation for the infotainment center. I am constantly finding (and losing)...
And while we are all configuing the lights, can I please order the option to make the left and right most LED lights blink in synchrony with the...
You can turn on or off a small digital clock in the upper right hand corner of the right info screen. Sadly it is almost always obscured by the...
Pushing the little round "ok" button in the middle of the left hand joystick cycles a small number in the bottom right hand corner of the left...
I alternate cars, driving the 458 to work about 2-3 times a week, a distance of 20 freeway miles, and I get close to 300 miles out of a full tank....
The 458 sends you all sorts of messages as the gas gets low, but around 50 miles left, the last two orange bars in the gas gauge collapse to one...
1) What you are feeling is probably normal. Switching the manettino with the VDA screen on reminds you that gear shifts in wet mode are the...
treble, mid range, and bass settings, Left/Right and front/back fade settings are under the audio controls menu. That's about it.
Slippery when dry? I took my trusty accelerometer out to a deserted road on the edge of town for a few performance starts - or so I thought....
Conceptually yes, an upshift at 7000 rpm would put the car at maximum torque the instant the car is in the new gear. However, as bus driver has...
The theory of High Performance In this thread Im going to post a few thoughts on the theory of optimizing performance - according to the...
Those of us who are 6 feet or taller are well aware that the blinkers are completely obscured by the long tach tunnel and the steering wheel which...
My 2 cents: My Corvette Z06 was listed 0-60 at 4.0 seconds. I could never get it below 4.5 on stock tires and most of the listed drag times were...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The manual loosely tells you how to use the LC. It works best...
I was thinking about the plight of an earlier post where a member is stuck with his 458 as his only car for a week. Tears, right? It got me...
I agree. The tach tunnel is so long and deep that its almost impossible to see the turn signals. In addition, most of the warning lights are...
I know I'm going to get laughed off the forum for saying this but I use wet mode in moderate to heavy traffic because: a) Wet mode in a ferrari...
The manual loosely tells you how to use the LC. It works best in race mode when the engine is warm. Conservative engine mapping in wet and sport...
