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'Ring Queen Sabine Schmitz battles Ron Simons in Porsche vs Ferrari scrap
We hope you have seven minutes to kill. RSR Nürburgring recently took the time to pit Sabine Schmitz and her slightly modified Porsche 911 GT3 RS against Ron Simons and his Ferrari 458 Italia in a sparring match around the infamous Green Hell. The clip begins with the two drivers engaging in a smidgeon of smack talk before the two get down to the business of beating each other's doors off around one of the most challenging courses in the world. Simons calls his car superior to Schmitz's 911, while Schmitz says she's up against nothing more than a Fiat driven by an old Dutch man. ... Read More
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0Daily dose of sexy brought to you by HRE Wheels, Ferrari 458 Italia [w/video] 1333038540
We've spilled equal parts ink and drool over the new Vintage Series wheels from HRE. The pieces invoke all sorts of bedroom poster memories from our misspent youth, and seeing them bolted to some of our favorite modern supercars is enough to invoke a guaranteed smile. The guys at StanceWorks have featured a particularly moving combination. One Ferrari ...
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Video: Footage shows Eric Clapton's bespoke Ferrari leaving London dealership 1332788400
Back in the summer of 2010, Eric Clapton stopped by the Ferrari factory in Maranello, Italy, with one request: could they build him a 458 Italia with a V12? Nearly two years later, this is what resulted. Reportedly called the SP12 EPC (bearing the initials of the famous rock guitarist), the one-off product of the Ferrari Special Projects division first ...
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Rumormill: Did Ferrari build Eric Clapton a one-off 458 Italia? 1332372180
Ferrari has been known to produce one-off vehicles for customers, most notably the F430-based SP1 created for a wealthy Japanese collector in 2008 as well as the P540 Superfast Aperta created on the 599 FTB Fiorano platform in 2009. Now, if the Ferrari afficianados over on FerrariChat.com are correct, Ferrari Special Projects program has built a third ...
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Video: Motor Trend picks their Best Driver's Car of 2011 1330113480
It's been a long while since the guys at Motor Trend went through the trouble of picking the best driver's car, and for good reason. In order to pull off an actual test with any merit, the publication would need to wrangle some of the most impressive pieces of automotive engineering together on the same track on the same day. When we're talking about ...
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Official: Ferrari 458 joining the grid in FIA GT1 World Championship 1329082380
Competition versions of the Ferrari 458 have already been prepared for the Ferrari Challenge, Grand Am, and the GT3 and GT2 classes at Le Mans and its various associated series around the world. Now you can add one more to the roster: the FIA GT1 World Championship. Ferrari had previously left GT1 racing to the Maserati MC12, but Vitaphone Racing is ...
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Video: Nissan releases official footage of Juke-R supercar street race in Dubai 1328031120
When is a Nissan Juke not a Nissan Juke? When it's the 480-horsepower, Godzilla-powered Juke-R, that's when. Then it's a supercar-beater. And to prove the point, Nissan UK took its one-off super-crossover down to Dubai for a little street racing action. So what did Nissan pit its Juke-R against? No, not other crossovers, but a pack of the leanest, ...
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Video: Nissan Juke-R takes on Gallardo, 458 Italia and SLS AMG in Dubai 1327080600
The Nissan Juke-R found some adventurous extracurriculars to take part in while in Dubai to pace the Dunlop 24-Hour race. Nissan said it would be making a film of the Juke-R taking on other street-legal supercars in the Dubai International Marina, but that race is meant to include a Mercedes/McLaren SLR-engined Mercedes-Benz SLK. This appears to be ...
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Official: Ferrari 458 Grand Am debuting at Daytona 1323354720
Ferrari is headed to the Daytona 24 Hours with a new Grand Am version of the company's 458 Italia. The 458 Grand Am borrows heavily from the GT3 version of the supercar, though with an eye towards competition here in the States. Like the GT3, the Grand Am car was prepared for battle by the same house that's been responsible for race-bred Ferrari models ...
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Video: Vicki Butler-Henderson flogs Ferrari 458 Spider on Fifth Gear 1320800340
A hardtop convertible Ferrari? Yeah, you're gonna want a pretty blonde to cover that one. But this isn't the California. This is the 458 Spider. Right, better make it Vicki Butler-Henderson then. VBH, you see, isn't some boulevard-cruising talk-show host. Sure, she's presented her share of reality television shows, like the UK version of The Biggest ...
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Video: Twin-turbo Ferrari 458 Italia takes on Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 1319758020
We at Autoblog love a good supercar battle, and of all the rivalries within the land of the exotic sports car, perhaps none is as fierce as Ferrari versus Lamborghini. And while Ferrari doesn't exactly have a direct competitor for the absolutely bombastic Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4, the folks at Underground Racing may have come up with a suitable (and ...
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First Drive: 2012 Ferrari 458 Spider [w/video] 1318953420
In Which We Fight The Urge To Name It "World's Best Car" When looking for exotic sports car thrills on public roads in the summer, it simply doesn't get any better than the Ferrari 458 Spider. How nice, too, that Italy's summer has gone on and on this year – it thoughtfully didn't end until the evening after our epic drive through the Apennine ...
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Video: Ferrari 458 Italia named MT's best driver's car of 2011, participates in 11-way exotic drag race 1315845000
Today, Motor Trend announced the winner of its 2011 Best Driver's Car competition. The Ferrari 458 Italia took the top honors, beating out the other ten cars in the field. The annual roundup takes into account several factors, including lapping at California's Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, instrumented testing and street driving. Interestingly, the 458 ...
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Official: Ferrari drops the top, full specs on new 458 Spider [w/video] 1314108000
Engineering a mid-engined exotic with a retractable hardtop is a bit tricky. Which is why it's never been done before – that is, until now. Feast your eyes on what Maranello's crafty engineers have wrought. Earlier this morning, we showed you the first video of the coming Ferrari 458 Spider, but now we have a batch of images and more information to ...
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Ferrari 458 steering wheel replicated as Xbox 360 controller 1314104460
One of the most complex parts of a modern Formula One car is its steering wheel, which can be worth tens of thousands of dollars on its own and packing all the controls you'd expect to find on a dashboard right onto the wheel itself. Ferrari took a similar approach with the steering wheel on the 458 Italia, moving the starter button, chassis mode dial, ...
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Video: Ferrari 458 Spider gets Superamerica-style roof 1314102780
The debut is OFFICIAL! Click here to view official specs and images. Today, Ferrari is unveiling the 458 Spider, and official video of the new sports car's roof operation has already hit YouTube. It's as simple as it is slick. The rear-hinged tonneau flips up, after which the Superamerica-style roof panel rotates back into the space behind behind the ...
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Video: How to build a Ferrari 458 Italia's body frame 1313175540
As far as autoworker jobs go, putting together a Ferrari has got to be one of the plum gigs. The company is consistently rated as one of the best places to work in Europe, but if the pleasant atmosphere and long espresso breaks weren't enough, you get to go home at the end of the day knowing that you put together a Ferrari. Not a pickup truck, not an ...
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Report: Ferrari to unveil 458 Spider in Frankfurt with new Scuderia, 599 and Enzo in the pipeline 1312919880
A whole string of new models from Ferrari are in the pipeline. And once in a while, we get an insider's glimpse at what to expect. This time, Automotive News Europe has what they believe is a handle on the Maranello marque's plans for the next few years, and so far things look promising. First up, reports are circulating that Ferrari will present the new ...
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Video: How to build a Ferrari 458 Italia engine 1312404900
Generally speaking, we prefer driving cars to building them. Still, you can't do the former if the latter isn't taken care of. And since one of the cars at the top of our "must drive" list is the Ferrari 458 Italia, naturally we're curious to see what it takes to put one together. Thankfully for us, then, Ferrari brought a video crew into its ...
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Official: Ferrari rolls out latest 458 Italia Grand Am racer 1311175920
On any given Sunday, you can expect to find a Ferrari 458 Italia racecar screeching around one or more circuits around the world. Unsurprisingly, Maranello is serious about challenging the Porsche 911 for shear proliferation in sports car racing. That's why the mid-engined GT has already spawned Challenge, GT2 and GT3 racing versions, and has now bred ...
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Report: Ferrari 458 Spider to debut new type of folding roof mechanism? 1311026280
Close your eyes and picture a convertible Ferrari. Now open them. What kind of roof did it have? If you're thinking of folding cloth, Ferrari's made plenty of those throughout its history. But of the last three to roll out the gates of Maranello, only one of them had a soft top. And a makeshift one at that. That was on the limited-edition SA Aperta. The ...
