Read Ferrari 488 Pista car reviews and compare Ferrari 488 Pista prices and features at carsales.com.au. The first 911 GT3 RS (2003) only came about because Porsche needed to homologate two suspension links for racing. Ferrari uses an e-differential and its latest-generation Side Slip Control program involves even more software, so if you turn in sensibly, the diff stays relatively unwound, the Pista rotates beautifully and, as you come back on the power, it drives the Pista brilliantly, breaking traction easily if you have traction control off, but with the Side Slip Control system allowing a lovely degree of adjustability. Throughout their iterations since, they haven’t missed a beat.This, then, is Ferrari’s latest, the 488 Pista. 488 Spider; 488 GTB; 488 Pista; Ferrari Portofino; Ferrari California T; Ferrari California; 458 Speciale A; 458 Speciale; 458 Spider; 458 Italia ; F430 Scuderia; F430 Spider; F430 Coupe; F430; Challenge Stradale; 360 Spider; 360 Modena; Other Models / Classics; Explore V8 Special Series.

Those scoops are instead now exclusively for radiators and intercoolers, apart from a small area at their topmost point: this removes a boundary layer of turbulent air just upstream of the engine air intake, meaning that faster-moving air makes its way into the airbox.The cabin is stripped to just the right amount: minimal, without being too bare and harsh an experience.Copyright © 2020 | MH Magazine WordPress Theme by,Automobili Lamborghini producing Covid-19 protective gear,Novitec now has tuning kits for the Maserati Levante,VPCM opens eShowroom for Malaysians to buy a VW from home,The Pista is lighter, faster and more aggressive than the 488 GTB everywhere,limited in production number. This is not a car like the F12 Tdf or the 599 GTO, which you might kindly describe as a right old handful. It’ll understeer if you’re clumsy, and spin its wheels more than you expect if you’re lead-footed, but generally it’s more approachable and playful than its competitors. ‘Pista’ means ‘track’, or, apparently, ‘get out of the way!’, but I suppose either is appropriate enough.The requisite link to motorsport is there, anyway. Chuffing hell.Our first go, as it sometimes is, is around Ferrari’s Fiorano test track.

The Pista’s engine is – like a GT3 RS’s – effectively a race car motor, here from the 488 Challenge car. Get the best of automotive news delivered to your inbox everyday. In fact, because of the new tyres, which have stiffer sidewalls, steering response – Ferraris use a really quick, light, 2.0-turn rack, and McLaren and Porsche usually do it better – is if anything less nervous, more stable.So it is just as accessible, but way, way, faster. The reduction in kerb weight means that a car that was already willing to turn is even more agile. There are two sports cars they just don’t get wrong. FERRARI 488 PISTA Everything the 488 GTB is, only much, much more so. So it’s just brilliantly adjustable and responsive.What’s perhaps more remarkable, though, is that this comes without any huge detriment to the experience on the road. This car. Translating as ‘track' in Italian, the Pista Spider is the culmination of all of the experience that Ferrari gained on the world's circuits by the Challenge and the GTE. On the softer ‘bumpy road’ setting, it’s remarkably compliant, yet controlled.The roads in these pictures are part of Ferrari’s development drivers’ test route, so you can see why the steering ends up being so fast – you seldom need to take your hands off the wheel on hairpins – but it also explains why Ferrari likes using an e-differential. This feels like GTB plus 20%, rather than a different animal. The steering rack, ratio, everything, is the same as a GTB’s. For one: it wouldn’t be able to be this much lighter were it not for the improvements in cooling, allowed by some clever air manipulation.In the nose, the radiator is now ramped up at the rear, rather than the front, and with new frontal treatment throwing more air at it, it’s only 2% bigger than before yet 7% better at cooling the water that flows through it. And there’s so much high-speed air across the body now that the engine’s air intake can afford to be by the rear wing, rather than in the scoops behind the doors.

Peak torque – and there’s 568lb ft of it – comes in at just 3000rpm, the car revs to the same 8000rpm as the GTB and throttle response is better than any other turbocharged car’s, of that I’m pretty certain. Search for new & used Ferrari 488 Pista cars for sale in Australia. View pictures, specs, and pricing on our huge selection of vehicles. It was always in the plan that way: develop an engine that makes 50bhp more than the standard 488 GTB, prove it in the one-make racing series car, and eventually drop it into the ‘special’ variant.It drives the rear wheels via a seven-speed dual-clutch gearbox. Siew Weng | March 07, 2018. Anti-roll bars are unchanged, and although there is a stiffening of springs, it’s minor and comes with only a marginal decrease in ride height.

It’ll just,The 488 Pista is just as accessible as the 488 GTB, but way, way faster,Lamborghini Huracán Performante, Porsche 911 GT2 RS. They’ll go once or twice, just to remind themselves they’ve made the right decision.

Available. V8 Ferrari owners, even track-special V8 Ferrari owners, do not tend to live on race tracks like owners of, say, GT3 RS Porsches. Reputably the only Ferrari 488 Pista Piloti in Malaysia, this blue specimen you see here is ready to tear up the streets of KL. Put carpets and inertia-reel belts rather than harnesses in it and it could even just be the next 488, rather than a motorsport-derived special.That, though, is important to those who buy them.