A customer of Ferrari’s Tailor Made personalization program decided to customize his new 458 Italia in the livery that featured on the Maranello F1 cars back in the mid-Seventies, when the Scuderia took three consecutive Constructors’ titles and two Drivers’ – both of them thanks to the very determined Niki Lauda.
The car features a red paint with a white roof that includes the Italian flag going longitudinally across it. The gold rims add to the 458 Italia’s special feel, as do the white painted door sills and front deflectors.
The car was prepared with this exclusive design by the Commercial Department at Ferrari as part of the Tailor Made personalization program, with the collaboration of a personal designer from the Maranello Style Centre.
The interior features the same motif of the Italian flag, which can be seen on the seats and central tunnel. The racing look is underlined by the sports seats with red motif stitching, the dashboard, instrument panel and the steering wheel with LEDs, as well as the F1 type gear shifts.
Ferrari says the mysterious owner of this 458 Italia (which remains standard in terms of performance) wanted to make it unique by “paying tribute to one of the happiest and most productive eras in the history of the Scuderia.” What do you think of it?
By Dan Mihalascu
If you're lucky enough to own 458 Challenge, Racing One can help you out to improve the Ferrari's 4.5-liter V8 engine lifting output from 562hp (570PS) to 612hp (620PS) before it turns to the chassis and the braking system and suspension components.
The team over at Racing One has also developed an aerodynamics package for the Italian mid-engine supercar with added bits such as the front lip spoiler and canards. You can get a better look at the car in the photo gallery that follows the jump.
As usual, when it’s an exotic supercar we’re talking about, the many little performance enhancing changes that engineers think up really do seem to work; Sutcliffe appreciates the extra power, 90kg (198lbs) weight saving and excellent brakes that are reportedly the same as on the hybrid flagship.
It looks like a real hoot to chuck around, a trait we knew its less powerful and less special standard brother also possessed, but in this case, all the mods should bring that out even more so. All I can think about, though, is how they extracted 600-ish horsepower from a 4.5-liter V8, by adopting a crazy 14:1 compression ratio, while still keeping it civilized and clean enough for use on public roads.
By Andrei Nedelea
So much so, that it has already found at least one imitator in the guise of the crew from TrueStoryASA, who performed a similar prank of trying to pick up ladies on the street with a Ferrari 458 Spider.
The young team of pranksters stated: "We went out with a 2013 Red Ferrari Italia 458 to go on a social experiment and see if it can pick up ladies no matter how you look and this is how it went.:)"
Staged or not, if you haven't done so already, put your pennies away and click play on the video below.
While TV’s, computers and mobile phones have all become more affordable, supercars have not. It’s so bad that one prospective Lamborghini buyer, businessman Ra Hazouri, has flat out refused to pay.
Well, you could just buy whatever’s available and drive that until your hot pink Ferrari 458 with the diamante-encrusted wheel arches and baby seal leather interior arrives. I mean, who cares about depreciation when you can lay down half a million on a factory fresh Ferrari? You’d be surprised how many Ferrari customers in Australia are doing this exact thing.
