Ferrari 458 Spider

Once my father said to me: “Son, when you will get older your passion for pretty ladies and fast cars will slowly but surely slow down”. Well, I don’t want to comment on the first part of his prophecy because this might become true one day when I will/would/should/must/wish to settle down, but I do want to say that he was definitely wrong regarding fast cars so far.

After my amazing time with the Scuderia Ferrari (where I achieve the honor and pleasure of winning the European Championship in the Ferrari Challenge) my passion for “normal” street cars did fade away a bit. BUT now it has came back more than ever with the new Ferrari 458 Spider. Since I had the pleasure already almost two years ago to test-drive the 458 Italia (Coupé) I knew that it is probably the best sports car on earth at the moment (also “FifthGear” has found out, surprisingly even tested it against the new McLaren MP4). Then, beginning of September this year, I was invited to Maranello where the cabriolet (Spider) of the 458 was presented and I had the first opportunity to have a close look at this piece of art.

Three months later at the beginning of December, I received one of the very first cars and could not (and still cannot) find words to describe how perfect this sports car really is. It is not only pure Formula-One technology brought straight to our streets (like its older brother, the coupé called “Italia”), it is not only another cabriolet (the hard-top-roof is just the best I have ever seen, and I loved my Mercedes SL), it is not only in about 3 (!) seconds from 0 to 100 km/h and it has the best sound I have ever heard from any car, no matter if at low rpm or at 9.000 rpm (sounds also different from the “Italia” since the sound-designer in Maranello have paid great attention also to that detail). It is much more than that, but – as said – I can not find the words reaching where this car has already gone, maybe Ferrari could help here to get a flavor why even strangers take pictures of the car and post them online – Thank you guys