Ferrari Details The 2016 660HP 488 Spider - With A $300,000 Base Price Who Is The Target Buyer?

The Ferrari 488 Spider is the most powerful mid-engined convertible that the company has yet made. Its turbocharged V8 engine delivers 660bhp at 8000rpm.

The Spider uses a similar folding hard-top to that of its predecessor, the 458 Spider. Ferrari says the hard-top is 25kg lighter than a cloth roof and takes just 14 seconds to fold up or down. When folded down, the roof lies flat on top of the engine.

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skytop - 7/28/2015 4:24:54 PM

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Bill Clinton and co conspirator Hillary Rotten Clinton has lots of your money to purchase one and have lots left over to maintain it.

TheSteve - 7/28/2015 4:32:17 PM

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If recent memory serves me correctly, Ferraris have been expensive for quite some time. It's not news that they still are.

TomM - 7/28/2015 5:23:41 PM

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IT seems to me that the target buyer of this car is someone who has the ability to pay over $300,000 for a car. It has a dual-clutch Automatic - so they don't need to know how to use a clutch pedal.

MDarringer - 7/28/2015 6:58:35 PM

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Old men who pop Viagra and still have the beat the living crap out of the snake to "rigidize" it enough for his prostitart bimbo to feign interest and pretend it satisfies her.

Most people who can afford Ferraris have no business driving them.

Sciros - 7/30/2015 1:55:41 PM

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Umm isn't Ferrari like the only company that really gives a shit who drives their cards? Like, REALLY cares? So if what you say is accurate (I have my doubts) then you should probably give Ferrari a call and let them know they're screwing up huge.

TheSteve - 7/29/2015 11:40:55 AM

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MDarringer writes "...Most people who can afford Ferraris have no business driving them..."

I believe something different: if you can easily afford a Ferrari, then you are in *precisely* the right business to be driving it! Ditto with buying a Rolls, regardless if you drive it yourself or hire a chauffeur. Ditto with a yacht, regardless if you captain it yourself or hire. Ditto with a plane and piloting it.

I don't behold a grudge against the affluent (bin there, dun that). I don't believe that people should use their purchases only in a specific way; buy a Dino and put it in your personal car museum, for all I care.

If you're happy, then nothing else matters. Especially what others think of you. Even more so of those who think "you're doin' it all wrong."

TheSteve - 7/29/2015 1:39:27 PM

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BTW, this would be a gorgeous car, if not for the Italia-like headlight and rear-end mess. But I suppose with enough coin, you could pay Ferarri to customize those parts and make it beutiful, like Eric Clapton did with his Ferrari.