488 Collected the 488 Spider

After having sold my Speciale and 458 Spider I succumbed to getting a 9 month old 488 Spider as my Pista will not arrive until next year. The car had only done 180 miles so basically a brand new car. It saved me around £40k from what it cost when new. Here are some pictures of me collecting it yesterday.
It is finished in rosso Scuderia, has every bit of external carbon and has the 2 tone black roof option. the interior has the leather/Alcantara option and again it has all the carbon options including the carbon upper tunnel trim.
in the 100 mile drive home (in the sunshine with the roof down) I was amazed how much more refined it was than the old 458 Spider.
Still running it in for the next couple of hundred miles but even so can see it is far more responsive than the old 458.

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I have to say in my opinion it sounds ok. The 458 screams at high rpm but in the real world you never really drive like that so it is not something that I will miss. At lower rpm it still sounds good. The car will get used for touring trips around Europe so am more concerned about the real world performance than the exhaust sound at maximum attack. As I said in the original post I was impressed how much better the car was than the 458. In fact I found on longer trips the way the exhaust valves kept opening and shutting on the 458 around 80mph became a bit annoying after a while.

 

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