2011 Ferrari The 458 Italia : 9000-rpm redline

Saturday, January 29, 2011

2011 Ferrari The 458 Italia : 9000-rpm redline

2011 Ferrari The 458 Italia

The 458 Italia, with 562 horsepower straining to run down insolent peasants. At the moment, someone else is piloting, and perhaps it’s just a feeling, but Ferrari test driver Raffaele De Simone seems to relish downshifting to second for that tight left-hander in the track’s southwest corner, near the apartment blocks. We emerge sideways in a ballet of bawling rubber, the tach screwed up to its window-rattling, 9000-rpm redline 2011 Ferrari The 458 Italia.