A Light Aero and Wheel Package for Ferrari 458 from Vorsteiner [w/Video]

Here's a tuning kit from Vorsteiner aimed at those Ferrari 458 Italia owners who would like a more individual look for their coupe without going haywire or messing around with the engine bay and/or interior.

Named the 458-V, the main package comes with three carbon fiber aero parts, including an add-on front lip spoiler, and add-on decklid spoiler and a replacement rear diffuser complete with taller fins and new rear fog lamp housing to accommodate the new bridge element.

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Surprise…FGearTV Says 12-Year Old Ferrari Owner Story Was a Hoax

As many suspected when the crew from FGearTV shared a video of a 12-year old boy from the UK named Callum, who purportedly bought three Ferrari models including a F355, a 458 Italia and a 599GTO, after selling an app to Google for £8.5 million (or $8.5 million, it wasn't made clear) at the age of just 9, the story was nothing more than a hoax. Read more »

12-Year Old Kid Buys 3 Ferrari Models After Selling App to Google, But Is It True?

Here's the thing with the story you're about to read and watch: we don't know if we're supposed to feel amazed, jealous or suspicious. To sum it up, the super- and sports-car loving crew over at FGear.TV on YouTube, posted a video interview of a 12-year old kid, likely from the UK judging by his accent, who currently owns not one, not two but three Ferrari models. If true, it would make him the youngest owner of Maranello's creations in the world that we've heard about.

The video description reads: "We met up again with 12 year old Callum who purchased a Ferrari when he was 10. Now, he has 3 Ferrari's including a 458 and a 599GTO and soon to be a star in a documentary series."

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Justin Bieber Takes Down Photographer in Ferrari 458, Cops Clear Him of Any Wrongdoing

Young heartthrob Justin Bieber just doesn't seem to get a break when it comes to driving his notorious white Ferrari 458 Italia. In yet another mishap, Bieber was caught up in an accident in Los Angeles on Monday night involving a pedestrian, and which predictably, was captured on camera (see video below).

As reported by TMZ, 19 year-old Bieber was leaving the local comedy club Laugh Factory on Sunset Boulevard around 11:45 PM with his friend and rapper Lil Twist, getting ready to board his Ferrari. Not surprisingly, he was surrounded by paparazzi who turned the night into day with there strong camera flashes.

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How to Turn a Ferrari 458 Italia Spider into a Family Car for Five

We could always be wrong, but from the little we know about Italian exotics, the creative minds in Maranello designed and developed the Ferrari 458 Italia Spider for two people - a driver and a passenger.

Perhaps the owner of this bright yellow 458 Spider in Dubai was in a time squeeze of sorts, or maybe his Rolls-Royce Phantom limousine and Range Rover SUV were both unavailable.

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Ferrari 458 Italia Spotting: Cool Color or Uncool Photoshop Trickery?

We love us some unique shades on special cars – painted, foil wrapped or even photoshopped, just as long as we are aware of what it is that are we are looking at.

This picture of a Ferrari 458 Italia coupe seemingly dressed in a tinted, chromed-eggplant-like shade was reportedly shot by a member of the Autogespot forums named "Königsallee Chilla" in Dusseldorf, Germany, and was shared by the site's moderators on their Facebook page with the title "Wow! This will get you dizzy!".

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GTBoard Hits the Air Strip for Another Round of Supercar Drag Races

Feast your eyes and ears to a set of cars we never get bored of watching in action, no matter how many times we see them on the road. This time, the perpetrators are the folks from GTBoard who organized another horsepower-crazy event in Sweden.

The crop of exotic and regular sports cars engaging in some fun straight-line races includes a Porsche 911 Turbo S, a BMW M6 Coupe, a Bugatti Veyron, a Ferrari 458 Italia, and a few Nissan GT-Rs.

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Kahn Tunes Ferrari 458 Spider Out of the Blue

The press release-happy tuners at A. Kahn Design (formerly Project Kahn and sometimes called simply Kahn) have come out with another creation featured in their trademark neck-twisting photos. Read more »

Designer Envisions a Ferrari 458 Italia Replacement with New FT12 Concept

Automotive designers, be that professional or amateur, tend to be a restless breed of people, always thinking of the next project. It comes with the territory, of course.

After sharing his vision for a next generation Ferrari Spider model with a concept featuring a two-seat layout and a mid-mounted engine, Aldo Schurmann returns this year with a fresh design study for a Ferrari 458 replacement that he has named the F12T.

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Pininfarina Sergio May be Made in a Very Limited Production Run

The Pininfarina Sergio, named after the former chairman of the company, who passed away last year, was one of the most striking concepts at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show. Its low-slung, windscreen-less roadster body, striking nose and overall barchetta shape bears little resemblance to the Ferrari 458 on which it's based.

Luckily, you might just get to see one of these on the road, in the not-so-distant future, as a report from Autonews Europe indicates that it may enter a very limited production run of no more than six examples.

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Ferrari's F1 Drivers Alonso and Massa Have Fun in a 458 Italia

You could say that a Formula 1 driver will find it hard to have fun in a series-production road car, after being used to F1's extreme sensations. But we’re talking here about the 570HP Ferrari 458 Italia, arguably one of the best mid-engine sports cars available on the market right now.

Scuderia Ferrari drivers Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa took the car for a spin around the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona to see how it handles.

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Ferrari 458 Crashes Into Brazilian Crowd and Leaves Three Injured

A festive racing event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, turned into a horror story this past Sunday when the driver of a yellow Ferrari 458 Italia crashed through the rail guard and plowed into spectators crowded along the course injuring three people.

"We were behind the guard rail and he (the driver of the Ferrari yellow) lost control in the curve," Cida Alves, a spectator at the event told Brazil's Gaz News. "Upon impact, a cyclist (who was in the audience) was thrown into the air and the rails fell on him. He was wounded in head."

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Cazzo! Watch a Ferrari 458 Spider Slide and Crash While Overtaking Another Car

What are the chances of a Ferrari fan (the seat belt trims leave no doubt about that) filming one of his favorite models getting into an unfortunate accident on a public road? Well, given how rare Ferrari cars are, pretty slim, if you ask us, but not impossible, as this video proves.

The Ferrari fan spotted a red-colored 458 Spider on the Autostrada (Italian highway), reportedly in Bari, and quickly took out his camera phone to record the encounter, but little did he know that in a few seconds, the mid-engine supercar would turn into a heap of metal…

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Dutch DJ Afrojack Crashes Ferrari 458 Just Hours After Picking it Up

Take a good look the above photo and tell us; does the young man standing in the middle with a smirk on his face look like he just smashed the red Ferrari 458 Italia seen on his left side?

We don't know if it has to do with his bank account, the fact that nobody was hurt or if the car happened to be a rental or a lease, but Dutch DJ Nick van de Wall, more commonly by his stage name 'DJ Afrojack', seems to be pretty joyous for someone involved in an accident with a very expensive car he had picked up only a few hours before the crash.

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Watch a Ferrari 458 Spider Stalk a McLaren P1 Hypercar in Traffic

After watching this video, we can’t but feel for the McLaren engineers trying to do their work testing or simply driving the P1 under normal conditions and having to deal with all the (justified) attention that comes along with the job.

On the other hand, we're also grateful for supercar-spotter and YouTube channel owner Shmee150 and his friend in a deliciously sounding Ferrari 458 Spider for tracking down and filming the pre-production P1, without making any inherently dangerous moves in the process (or at least none that we saw in this video).

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Way to Go: Watch Chris Harris Drive a Ferrari 458 Spider Flat-Out on the Track

He might have claimed that Ferrari “doctors” the cars tested by the media but that didn’t stop Chris Harris from a) replacing his Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0 with a used 599 GTB and b) driving any car with a prancing horse on the bonnet that he could get his hands on.

The problem is that, with all the bad blood between the two parties, Harris got to drive the 458 Spider too late, after it had been reviewed by almost everyone, a fact he acknowledges right from the start.

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Lexus LFA Loses to Ferrari 458 Italia in C&D's 2013 Lightning Lap Test

It's a fact that Nürburgring lap times have become something of a standard when it comes to comparing sports cars’ performance. Car & Driver magazine decided that it was impractical to conduct its annual Lightning Lap event in Germany as they had 20 cars to test, so its editors chose the Virginia International Raceway (VIR) as the U.S. equivalent of the ‘Ring.

While the 4.1-mile long track is one-third of the Nordschleife, it features more than 30 turns and elevation changes and, according to C&D, it makes for a demanding venue in which to test each car to its limits.

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Capristo Opens Up a Window for Ferrari 458 Spider

If there was one thing you could change on the Ferrari 458 Spider, what would it be? Well, the answer to that question really depends on whom you ask, but for German tuner Capristo, which specializes on exhaust systems, it would be the open-top supercar's engine cover.

You see, contrast to the 458 Italia Coupe that sports a window pane offering a clear view of the car's high-revving V8 powerhouse, the Spider was designed with a regular vented hood.

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Paparazzo Killed in LA While Trying to Get Shots of Justin Bieber’s Ferrari

Celebrity hunting is what paparazzi do for a living. Sadly, it can also result in them perishing according to a report from TMZ, which was later confirmed by CBS Los Angeles.

The report said that a photographer was killed in Los Angeles while he was trying to snap pictures of Justin Bieber’s white Ferrari 458 Italia.

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Lamborghini Test Drive in China Goes Awfully Wrong; Ferrari Owner Crashes Car After Buying it

If you should be careful the first time you drive a mainstream vehicle, then you really need to watch out when you sit behind the wheel of a supercar from the likes of Ferrari and Lamborghini.

The first accident we found on the crash-loving website Wreckedexotics reportedly involves a Chinese customer of Lamborghini who took a Gallardo roadster for a test drive out in the rain and somehow ended up killing a tree and parking it on its side…

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