VIDEO: Fernando Takes The Ferrari 458 Italia Spider Out For A Shakedown

Oh-kay, so, you've seen the initial spy shot and the car's automatic hardtop functioning. What's the next step?

Let's get Ferrari's Formula One driver Fernando Alonso behind the wheel and see what happens. Although Alonso seems to be a man of few words, he sure as hell knows how to drive a car.

This gives a bit more clarity as to how the all-new 458 Italia Spider will look on the road, though we doubt very few will be able to put the Ferrari in its paces quite like an F1 driver.


Right before the start of the race weekend of the Italian Grand Prix in Monza, Fernando Alonso wanted to try the new 458 Spider, which will be presented at the IAA Frankfurt next Tuesday. The Scuderia Ferrari driver enjoyed the potential of the 8-cylinder mid-rear engine from the Prancing Horse - with hard top and fitted with the same most advanced technological content as the multi-awarded 458 Italia and now available in an "en plein air" version - on the roads around Maranello.

Alonso was extremely satisfied with the perfect combination of high performance, exceptional handling and the engine sound the 458 Spider is able to deliver...



[Source: YouTube VIA WorldCarFans]


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PUGPROUD - 9/12/2011 10:29:56 AM

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Great F1 driver but not as smooth as I would have thought...Jim Clark was the best I ever saw at getting max from a car while being smooth as silk doing it.

Joe_Limon - 9/12/2011 11:41:03 AM

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They need to fire that video editor, it was so disjoint and out of place, at the end he pulled up and stopped 3 times! Other times it would show him turning hard inside the cockpit and then go to an exterior view where he was cruising relatively slow in a straight line.