Monday, March 5, 2012

And then along came a Spider.

FERRARI has taken the wraps off the drop-top version of the 458 Italia, with the drop-dead stunning car making its debut at next month's Frankfurt Motor Show.

The Ferrari 458 Spider is the world's first mid-rear engined berlinetta equipped with a retractable hard top (if you need to ask what a berlinetta is you're not a true Ferrari fan, but for the record it's an especially sporty form of coup[c]).

The new two-seater car widens the range of Ferrari's mid-rear engined V8s. Like the 458 Italia coup[c], the Spider's powered by the same sweet-sounding 4.5-litre V8 which was voted the 2011 International Engine of the Year, and with the roof down it opens up a whole new …

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