FERRARI 488 PISTA

Nero Daytona with Nera Alcantara interior. Two tone racing livery stripes and edge in Canna Di Fucile / Nero. 3,300 miles. Full Ferrari service history. Balance of service plan to 16.10.26. Huge spec. Highlights include Carbon wheels, Front lift, extensive carbon fibre options including personalisation pack, Premium HiFi and full PPF.

OPTIONS:

- Carbon wheels

- Front suspension lift

- Personalisation pack

- Carbon racing seats (large)

- Racing seat lifter

- Contrast stitching Rosso

- Rosso Ferrari coloured inner seat detail

- Carbon fibre under-door trim

- Carbon fibre front spoiler and aero flaps

- Carbon fibre lateral air intake splitters

- Carbon fibre engine compartment

- Carbon diffuser

- Carbon fibre lateral spoilers

- Rear segment in carbon fibre

- Carbon fibre exterior sill plate

- Carbon door handles

- Carbon fibre upper tunnel trim

- Carbon fibre wheel centre cap

- Centre part of seats in Alcantara (Nera)

- Alcantara passenger compartment mats

- Cockpit band coloured inner details (Rosso)

- Extracampionario Carpet colour

- Overmats with embroidered vehicle logo

- Red tachometer dial face

- Rosso Corsa brake callipers

- Titanium exhaust

- ‘Scuderia Ferrari’ shields on fenders

- AFS (Adaptive frontlight system)

- HELE system (High Emotion Low Emission)

- Electrochromic exterior and interior rear view mirrors

- Satellite navigation

-Rear parking camera

- Hi Power HiFi system

- Full PPF

At launch the 488 Pista arrived with expectation weighing heavily on its’ sharply creased flanks. Its predecessors, the 360 Challenge Stradale, the F430 Scuderia and the 458 Speciale. All hero cars that defined their respective generations. The Challenge Stradale name may be long gone, but that’s exactly what the 488 Pista is: a road-going 488 Challenge car.

The raw numbers are spectacular: 711bhp at 8,000rpm and up to 568lb ft of torque translating to 0-62mph in under 2.9 seconds and on to a V max of 211 mph.

30 years ago, managing such performance would have required F1 driver-levels of skill; today, incredibly, that’s not the case. From its ultra quick but faithful steering, delicate sense of balance and superb damping, the Pista is not a car you need to fight.

Yes, you have to be wary of the engine’s colossal outputs, but the beauty of the electronic systems is that you can go to nearly everything off but still feel like you’re completely in control of the car.

Ferrari’s FDE (Ferrari Dynamic Enhancer – think of it as a form of stability control but with a sense of humour) allows you to smoke the rear tyres as long as it feels you’re not doing anything stupid: provoke it too hard, too early in a slide and you’ll feel it deftly step in, but be smooth and it’s an amazing feeling to have so much expression combined with the reassurance of a guardian angel.