Very interesting. The 911 Cabrio (991) also gets a hardtop. Looks like in the coming years softtops will completly disapear, just like naturally aspirated engines, manual hand brake and manual gear box. I would really like Ferrari to bring back the 458 Targa, and have like the old F355 three variants. These are my favorite topless cars. Thinking of old Corvette and Supra Targa. This would give us: 458 Italia 458 Spider 458 Targa 458 Scuderia Can't wait for the later one.
Interesting news. As of latelty Ferrari have been rather playful with roof configurations for their cabrios. Depending on the materials use for the roof it could be less heavy than a ghetto cloth and steel structure for roof, seen on cheaper cars.
Just thought I'd share, in short... It's winter here in S.A. and the wife made me a huge mug of coffee yesterday afternoon, I lit a sigarette and began reading the most recent reviews and shootouts from the latest August 2011 magazines locally ending with the TopCar shootout between the Mclaren, 458, GT2, R8, Lambo, SLS and did a few related reads posted by our members her on GCF to compare. TopCar has two parts to its comparison ending with Ben Collins behind the wheel and his final verdict. What is clear as daylight and actually the final chapter between what we knew and the final verdict of Mclaren vs the world: The Ferrari 458 is the best super car here and in the world today and that is the short and the long of it
I saw these 3 special 458s hiding in a back room at the Ferrari dealer. Didn't have binoculars so I couldn't read on the back, but could be special, or it could just be a tacky paint job. Perhaps Andreas knows something about them.
Man, GM must be desperate or severely dillusional. Maybe, if they used the ZR-1, it would look plausible, but with a Cadillac coupe, it is ridiculous.
Honestly, if you're gonna say that Ferrari took some of your tech, say it, but don't have one of the best and fastest supercars trailing your infinitely inferior coupe. I thought Audi pushed it when they put a S-Class beside their A8, but man, this is just cocky on a whole new level. I didn't like Cadillac before, and with this commercial, I seriously detest them. God, I can't help but wonder how hard the driver of the 458 had to try to follow the Cadillac...
Well it is just pure fantasy that the CTS can somehow stay in front of the 458, but GM did develop the first electromagnetic dampers with Delphi, I think the C6 Corvette was the first car to use it back in 2004.
Ok, so you internet super sleuths need to point out if I'm wrong in my understanding of the chronological application of Magnetorheological dampers in production vehicles. To the best of my recollection Audi and Ferrari were the first to adopt this technology back in 2006 blah blah blah...[elapsed time googling and wiki'ing shit]... and I'm wrong already. In fact it's true; the first car to use - then Delphi's - MagneRide technology was the 2002 Cadillac STS. MagneRide was then sold off to BWI (Beijing West Industries) in 2009. Vehicles that use this technology are: Specific Applications: Chevrolet Corvette C5 Chevrolet Corvette C6: optional in coupe trim starting in 2005 model year and in hardtop (Z06) trim starting in 2012 model year; standard equipment in ZR1 Chevrolet Camaro in ZL1 trim (2012-) Cadillac CTS-V (2009-) Ferrari 599 Ferrari California Audi TT Audi R8 Acura MDX Acura ZDX Range Rover Evoque Source: MagneRide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
All that might be true..but that video is gut wrenchingly embarrassing stuff from Cadillac.. Saab invented the first Turbo engine with waste gate.. wonder if they would make a video where a 9-5 Aero was out running a 911 turbo ??.
What pains me is that actual human beings in high ranking positions thought that that commercial was a good idea.
^^well the magnetic suspension doesn't help in drag races..hahah And their ad showed the caddy being ahead AROUND A TRACK I would like to see that happen outside that add..
That CTS-V has 609whp (stock 450-500), so about 700-750hp engine. Based on its 1/4mile time, it does 100-200km/h in less than 7s. Not a bad result for 458 considering the short-shifting at the end.
