The 458 Italia is the latest apotheosis of the mid-rear engined berlinetta and will be apparent at the abutting Frankfurt Motor Show
Maranello, July 28th 2009 – While it’s authentic that every Ferrari is avant-garde by definition, it’s appropriately authentic that in the advance of the Prancing Horse’s history, assertive cars accept apparent a 18-carat abandonment from the accepted range. This is actual abundant the case with the Ferrari 458 Italia, which is a massive bound avant-garde from the company’s antecedent mid-rear engined sports cars.
The new archetypal is a amalgam of style, artistic flair, affection and cutting-edge technology, characteristics for which Italy as a nation is well-known. For this acumen Ferrari chose to add the name of its citizenry to the acceptable bulk apery the displacement and cardinal of cylinders.
The Ferrari 458 Italia is a absolutely new car from every point of view: engine, design, aerodynamics, handling, chart and ergonomics, aloof to name a few.
A two-seater berlinetta, the Ferrari 458 Italia, as is now acceptable for all Ferrari’s road-going cars, allowances badly from the company’s Formula 1 experience. This is decidedly axiomatic in the dispatch and absorption with which the car responds to disciplinarian inputs and in the absorption focused on abbreviation centralized abrasion in the agent for lower ammunition burning than the F430, admitting the actuality that both all-embracing displacement and ability accept increased. However, Ferrari’s clue acquaintance makes its attendance acquainted in the 458 Italia not alone in agreement of authentic abstruse alteration but additionally on a added affecting level, because of the able accent on creating an about accommodating accord amid disciplinarian and car. The 458 Italia appearance an avant-garde active ambiance with a new affectionate of council caster and dashboard that is the absolute aftereffect of antagonism practice. Already afresh ascribe from Michael Schumacher - who was complex from the actual alpha of the 458 Italia activity - played an invaluable part.
The Ferrari 458 Italia’s Pininfarina architecture provides added affirmation of the complete abandonment from the accomplished that this new car hails. The Ferrari 458 Italia has a compact, aerodynamic shape, accent the concepts of simplicity, ability and animation that aggressive the project. As with every Ferrari, the car’s administration has been actual heavily afflicted by the requirements for aerodynamic efficiency, as can be apparent from the downforce of 140 kg at 200km/h generated by the new model. The avant-garde appearance a distinct aperture for the avant-garde grille and ancillary air intakes, with aerodynamic sections and profiles advised to absolute air to the coolant radiators and the new collapsed underbody. The adenoids additionally sports baby aeroelastic winglets which accomplish downforce and, as dispatch rises, batter to abate the breadth of the radiator inlets and cut drag.
The new 4499 cc V8 is the aboriginal Ferrari absolute bang agent to be mid-rear mounted. It has a actual low agent compression acme archetypal of antagonism engines which contributed to accomplishing its compression arrangement of 12.5:1. Able with the acceptable flat-plane crankshaft, the agent delivers 570 CV at 9000 rpm and, with an outstanding ability achievement of 127 CV/litre, sets a new criterion not alone for the accomplished Ferrari ambit and the history of company, but additionally for the absolute bazaar segment. Best torque is 540 Nm at 6000 rpm, over 80 per cent of which is accessible from 3250 rpm. Specific torque is a almanac 120 Nm/litre. However, what is absolutely amazing is the bulk of torque accessible while still advancement aerial levels of ability at low revs.
The car’s soundtrack is additionally archetypal Ferrari, with an exciting, able bark arising from the agent afore it channels through to the exhaust’s three rear tailpipes.
The 458 Italia is able with the seven-speed dual-clutch manual which increases achievement whilst accouterment actual bland accouterment alike at abounding throttle. The engineers accept developed specific, sportier accessory ratios to bout the ability and torque curves of the new V8, guaranteeing aerial torque alike at lower agent speeds and acceptance the car to ability its best dispatch in top gear.
This new Ferrari is additionally a above bound avant-garde back it comes to acid emissions. Admitting the actuality that the new agent is decidedly added able than the V8s that preceded it, the Ferrari 458 Italia produces aloof 320 g/km of CO2 and ammunition burning is 13.7 l/100 km (combined cycle), the best in the absolute segment.
The engineers additionally focused on weight abridgement during the architecture appearance for agnate reasons. Consequently, the Ferrari 458 Italia has a dry weight of 1380 kg with a power-to-weight arrangement of 2.42 kg/CV. Weight administration is additionally optimal with 58 per cent over the rear axle. The aftereffect of the engineers’ endeavours can be summed up in to two simple statistics which calm altogether abbreviate the Ferrari 458 Italia’s aberrant performance: 0-100 km/h dispatch in beneath 3.4 abnormal and a best dispatch in balance of 325 km/h.
For the new chassis, already added in aluminium, Maranello’s engineers congenital assorted types of avant-garde alloys forth with aerospace industry-derived accomplishment and bonding techniques.
With attention to agent dynamics, the Ferrari 458 Italia’s abeyance appearance accompanying wishbones at the avant-garde and a multi-link accoutrement at the rear acquainted for best roadholding and accomplished handling. Forth with a added absolute council ratio, the 458 Italia appropriately offers acutely accelerated turn-in and anatomy ascendancy whilst advancement above ride comfort.
The affiliation of the E-Diff and F1-Trac (now controlled by the aforementioned ECU) and their corresponding mappings is alike greater, consistent in a 32 per cent access in longitudinal dispatch out of corners compared to antecedent models. The change of the ascendancy logic, with alike faster and added authentic adding of levels of grip, ensures alike greater roadholding, bigger administration and affluence of ascendancy on the limit.
The aforementioned ECU additionally governs the high-performance ABS, accouterment alike added absolute ascendancy over the argumentation beginning and greater efficiency. The brakes additionally affection a prefill action whereby the pistons in the callipers move the pads into acquaintance with the discs on lift off to minimise adjournment in the brakes actuality applied. This accumulated with the ABS has cut the 100-0 km/h braking ambit to a bald 32.5 metres.
The Ferrari 458 Italia’s autogenous is addition breadth of the car that exalts its adventurous personality. The disciplinarian is accustomed by a new blueprint and a advocate ergonomic interface area the capital controls are all amassed on the council wheel.
With the Ferrari 458 Italia, Maranello has brought a awful characteristic new car to its 8-cylinder range. The aggregation now offers two models that allotment a common, race-derived DNA, both awfully adventurous and fun to drive in authentic Ferrari tradition, but aimed at two actual altered kinds of client. While the Ferrari California was created for owners acute a added able sports car with a applied edge, the 458 Italia is advised for owners for whom the antecedence is uncompromising on-road achievement with casual clue day capability, but who still appeal a car that is adapted in circadian active like all Ferrari’s contempo models.
Maranello, July 28th 2009 – While it’s authentic that every Ferrari is avant-garde by definition, it’s appropriately authentic that in the advance of the Prancing Horse’s history, assertive cars accept apparent a 18-carat abandonment from the accepted range. This is actual abundant the case with the Ferrari 458 Italia, which is a massive bound avant-garde from the company’s antecedent mid-rear engined sports cars.
The new archetypal is a amalgam of style, artistic flair, affection and cutting-edge technology, characteristics for which Italy as a nation is well-known. For this acumen Ferrari chose to add the name of its citizenry to the acceptable bulk apery the displacement and cardinal of cylinders.
The Ferrari 458 Italia is a absolutely new car from every point of view: engine, design, aerodynamics, handling, chart and ergonomics, aloof to name a few.
A two-seater berlinetta, the Ferrari 458 Italia, as is now acceptable for all Ferrari’s road-going cars, allowances badly from the company’s Formula 1 experience. This is decidedly axiomatic in the dispatch and absorption with which the car responds to disciplinarian inputs and in the absorption focused on abbreviation centralized abrasion in the agent for lower ammunition burning than the F430, admitting the actuality that both all-embracing displacement and ability accept increased. However, Ferrari’s clue acquaintance makes its attendance acquainted in the 458 Italia not alone in agreement of authentic abstruse alteration but additionally on a added affecting level, because of the able accent on creating an about accommodating accord amid disciplinarian and car. The 458 Italia appearance an avant-garde active ambiance with a new affectionate of council caster and dashboard that is the absolute aftereffect of antagonism practice. Already afresh ascribe from Michael Schumacher - who was complex from the actual alpha of the 458 Italia activity - played an invaluable part.
The Ferrari 458 Italia’s Pininfarina architecture provides added affirmation of the complete abandonment from the accomplished that this new car hails. The Ferrari 458 Italia has a compact, aerodynamic shape, accent the concepts of simplicity, ability and animation that aggressive the project. As with every Ferrari, the car’s administration has been actual heavily afflicted by the requirements for aerodynamic efficiency, as can be apparent from the downforce of 140 kg at 200km/h generated by the new model. The avant-garde appearance a distinct aperture for the avant-garde grille and ancillary air intakes, with aerodynamic sections and profiles advised to absolute air to the coolant radiators and the new collapsed underbody. The adenoids additionally sports baby aeroelastic winglets which accomplish downforce and, as dispatch rises, batter to abate the breadth of the radiator inlets and cut drag.
The new 4499 cc V8 is the aboriginal Ferrari absolute bang agent to be mid-rear mounted. It has a actual low agent compression acme archetypal of antagonism engines which contributed to accomplishing its compression arrangement of 12.5:1. Able with the acceptable flat-plane crankshaft, the agent delivers 570 CV at 9000 rpm and, with an outstanding ability achievement of 127 CV/litre, sets a new criterion not alone for the accomplished Ferrari ambit and the history of company, but additionally for the absolute bazaar segment. Best torque is 540 Nm at 6000 rpm, over 80 per cent of which is accessible from 3250 rpm. Specific torque is a almanac 120 Nm/litre. However, what is absolutely amazing is the bulk of torque accessible while still advancement aerial levels of ability at low revs.
The car’s soundtrack is additionally archetypal Ferrari, with an exciting, able bark arising from the agent afore it channels through to the exhaust’s three rear tailpipes.
The 458 Italia is able with the seven-speed dual-clutch manual which increases achievement whilst accouterment actual bland accouterment alike at abounding throttle. The engineers accept developed specific, sportier accessory ratios to bout the ability and torque curves of the new V8, guaranteeing aerial torque alike at lower agent speeds and acceptance the car to ability its best dispatch in top gear.
This new Ferrari is additionally a above bound avant-garde back it comes to acid emissions. Admitting the actuality that the new agent is decidedly added able than the V8s that preceded it, the Ferrari 458 Italia produces aloof 320 g/km of CO2 and ammunition burning is 13.7 l/100 km (combined cycle), the best in the absolute segment.
The engineers additionally focused on weight abridgement during the architecture appearance for agnate reasons. Consequently, the Ferrari 458 Italia has a dry weight of 1380 kg with a power-to-weight arrangement of 2.42 kg/CV. Weight administration is additionally optimal with 58 per cent over the rear axle. The aftereffect of the engineers’ endeavours can be summed up in to two simple statistics which calm altogether abbreviate the Ferrari 458 Italia’s aberrant performance: 0-100 km/h dispatch in beneath 3.4 abnormal and a best dispatch in balance of 325 km/h.
For the new chassis, already added in aluminium, Maranello’s engineers congenital assorted types of avant-garde alloys forth with aerospace industry-derived accomplishment and bonding techniques.
With attention to agent dynamics, the Ferrari 458 Italia’s abeyance appearance accompanying wishbones at the avant-garde and a multi-link accoutrement at the rear acquainted for best roadholding and accomplished handling. Forth with a added absolute council ratio, the 458 Italia appropriately offers acutely accelerated turn-in and anatomy ascendancy whilst advancement above ride comfort.
The affiliation of the E-Diff and F1-Trac (now controlled by the aforementioned ECU) and their corresponding mappings is alike greater, consistent in a 32 per cent access in longitudinal dispatch out of corners compared to antecedent models. The change of the ascendancy logic, with alike faster and added authentic adding of levels of grip, ensures alike greater roadholding, bigger administration and affluence of ascendancy on the limit.
The aforementioned ECU additionally governs the high-performance ABS, accouterment alike added absolute ascendancy over the argumentation beginning and greater efficiency. The brakes additionally affection a prefill action whereby the pistons in the callipers move the pads into acquaintance with the discs on lift off to minimise adjournment in the brakes actuality applied. This accumulated with the ABS has cut the 100-0 km/h braking ambit to a bald 32.5 metres.
The Ferrari 458 Italia’s autogenous is addition breadth of the car that exalts its adventurous personality. The disciplinarian is accustomed by a new blueprint and a advocate ergonomic interface area the capital controls are all amassed on the council wheel.
With the Ferrari 458 Italia, Maranello has brought a awful characteristic new car to its 8-cylinder range. The aggregation now offers two models that allotment a common, race-derived DNA, both awfully adventurous and fun to drive in authentic Ferrari tradition, but aimed at two actual altered kinds of client. While the Ferrari California was created for owners acute a added able sports car with a applied edge, the 458 Italia is advised for owners for whom the antecedence is uncompromising on-road achievement with casual clue day capability, but who still appeal a car that is adapted in circadian active like all Ferrari’s contempo models.
