Ferrari 458 Speciale: on track at Anglesey | evo REVIEW
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- čas přidán 22. 07. 2014
- Richard Meaden tests the Ferrari 458 Speciale on track at Anglesey circuit - exploring the car's limits of grip, as well as going for an all-out lap time.
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If even Richard Meaden is giggling like a little boy then it's obvious how much joy you get from driving these latest Ferrari cars. While both Porsche and Mclaren admittedly make great cars, since 458 Ferrari is simply at another level. Fun car with great chassis and balance, great NA engines, gearbox and all the power so easily accessible.
I can't get enough of this or the regular 458... just such an amazing piece of art and machinery.
I'm just out of words. Masterpiece.
Maybe it's because i'm not a race driver, or a specialist, but as a simple aficionado i have to say this is a wonderful machine no matter if it's specifically tuned for this review or not. I don't care! What I care about is the attention to detail that's been payed, the wonderful design, the genius engineering and that wonderful sound!!
The fact that /Drive want to now charge you for content exactly like this, makes you appreciate Evo all the more. Long live Evo.
What an epic car. That's all there is to say.
This is up there with the best motoring pieces I have ever seen. Dickie, you are on form right now. Also the camera work and camera synchronisation was superb. And those opposite lock and engine bay shots with the induction noise, I am literally rushing this comment so I can start pulling one off!!
Let's not forget the car. The speciale has had the best reviews from the cream of the motoring journalism world and although they often take stick for it, I cannot thank Ferrari enough for turning up with a truck load if spares and fresh tyres for the making of this film.
Wow, you guys blew me away with this one, loved the intro too!!! 5*
Dear God, what a video. Absolutely beautifully shot, great driving, good commentary... but oh, what a car. The sights and sounds are magical. Thank you for sharing them.
It never amazes me the child-like joy I see on ALL the car journalists faces when they drive a Ferrari.
Evo has managed to capture that special feeling that comes with driving a car quickly and the joy that comes with it. I don't know if it's the 458, track, videography, but thank you.
best steering wheel IMO
We are living in a era that cars have become much more then just cars,each hight tech sport car today is a masterpeice of its own.
No doubt the Speciale is an awesome bit of kit, but honestly i'd be more than happy with a standard Italia too.
Those wheels are GORGEOUS.
Imagine waking up everyday, walking out your front door and climbing into that and knowing it's your car haha! Would be proper boss!
EVO is the best! Please try to bring LaFerrari, P1 and 918 on this track!:)
Agreed! I'd welcome the Agera R to that face-off, too, but that will only happen if Koenigsegg provides one (which has allegedly been difficult to accomplish for many tests).
vanquish421 Koenigsegg isn't a true performance car company to me. I mean even pagani you get to see some limited reviews. How many agera r reviews are there? Hilarious how people want ro compare agera r with the big 3 when there is absolutely no indication the agera r is a good track car. It goes fast I a sttaight line that is all anyone knows.
No cars compare - sound ,brutal force ,elegance ,history ,excitement ,brand only one name Ferrari
What a magnificent car! Great job, +Evo! Can't wait to see what other cars can come close to its lap time. Hopefully in the dry too!
Never grow tired of watching this vid - mega car - mega fun
What a car!! Respect to Ferrari.. nice job!
Another great video by EVO. Keep em coming !
This car is awesome. The side slide angle control tech is awesome. 600+hp 9000rpm, 90kg off from Italia, 200+mph etc... GT3 aren'a a bargain at all. Not even close.
Seriously guys! Richard is a top presenter and driver, as is Henry. Let them get on with their reviews in turn. Jethro is also a fantastic driver and presenter. Not many people can drive at 9 tenths and 'chat' about what they are doing. I suggest, taking your car out on a circuit flat out and giving a running commentary about your exploits, then coming back on here and lets see what you have?
Keep up the good work EVO- Top stuff!
Awesome, well done guys!
I can't believe the hatred in these comments.. Not even sure where I would start. Nobody seems able to see past this bulls*** and notice this brilliant car for what it is, pure automotive artwork. Say what you want but this is the best driving car on sale today bar LaF, P1 etc.
nice comments aren't getting "likes" on youtube anymore you gotta hate something in order to get likes from people and hating on the biggest automotive brand in the world is one perfect way to do it.
Lorenzo Locchi Exactly, not like they're the only ones doing it either..
just brilliant, the review the track the car all of it
Superb review as usual.
best Track car.... end of the story!!!
What a stunner!
Can't get enough of this car
This car has a perfect combination of stunning design and amazing perfomances.This is the baby LaFerrari
Wow, Ferrari actually did allow you to hot lap the Speciale on a different track than Fiorano?
Not without having the car setup for the track and not without bringing a garage to service the car of course.
autocar done the same thing on a different track before
Aye, but only because they were there a day before tuning specifically for this review...
***** Porsche fan? xD
***** how do you know
This is the kind of videos that have earned you my subscription. It's a shame that many who buy this car will never take it to a track or have the skill to throw it around like that. Hell of a car for sure.
brilliant video, great test, fantastic machine! wow ...
Looks like a pretty special circuit, looking forward to more tests from there.
An amazing car! Love the interior
Great video!
Great stuff. What a car, what a video; Best vid from evo in a long time. Richard, you're really coming into your own now.
great video.
Awesome! I want this car! Now!
The engine shot wow need more of that
What a Sweet Machine!! It's defiantly my Favorite Ferrari !!
Love the Speciale
This circuit is fabulous (as the car) ! It remembers me Chris Harris with the F40 & F50.
POV Intro, yeah! Now let's get some of those same visor-cam shots drifting around the circuit!
Some cars move you along. This vehicle moves your soul!!
I´m going to miss this cars in the future.. sometimes cars like this seem to mark an ending..
Enjoying yourself Dickie? and that is what "EVO" Is about, the joy of driving,and what makes something special.Definately Dicky driving all the way through, he likes his prada glass's, good vid , regards motorclaim guru
i like this guy, much better than 1st review evo!!
Sounds like a 458 on Zoloft. Turbos have def robbed it of that spine tingling rip.
he just went for it, got into the car without thinking on the moment itself, opened the door and entered! what a crime.... it's an F458 speciale for god sake....
:)
love it!
Incredibale!
car of the year 2014 imo
On an unrelated point, Dickie's lost so much weight recently.
So he's at least half a second faster :)
Dickie Speciale? Lighter and faster?
Was thinking the same thing. Good for him!
awesome
You could upload the onboard videos of the time laps of every car you drive there, I think it would be great!!
Super!!
Lovely intro, hope to see some incredible cars to do some laps on Anglesey that could beat the Speciale's time
That looks like just about the best thing ever to drive. Gob smacked. Lottery ticket is on!
Please Richard have lots of fun with the cars the manufacturers lend you and shred dozens of tyres in the process, but please do it off camera and let Henry Catchpole do the reviews,
Cheers.
Disagree. Richard did amazing job here!
Catchpole? No way! He's arrogant and his driving flash cars has divorced him from compassion and humanity - a car tester version of Cameron. Meadon any day.
NO! This was absolutely brilliant! Best Evo video I've seen in a long time and great in pretty much every aspect!
1seipai Never read so much bollox on CZcams in my life. Which is saying something. Or was it tongue in cheek? If not i think you are divorced from compassion and humanity. The irony....
zakelwe Fair point. But there was one video where Catchpole was driving a car, maybe a Ferrari, through a boarder checkpoint. There were lots of lorries and caravans there. He made some comment that they should be stopped since they were probably criminals. More likely they were refugees fleeing from God know what. From then on I did not like him. It was an arrogant and crass thing to say.
Great film Evo. Can we see the full timed lap now please?
They do have work cut trying to beat such time. I will say this time could be beaten.
Someone released some Lamborghini times on some Trofeo R tires.
Both Lp-570 Squardra and Huracan were then Speciale on Vairano Handling course.
I live on Anglesey, it's funny to think that that car was here!
Anglesey is a fantastic track to review cars on. Chris Harris uses it all the time for his /DRIVE reviews for various cars. Though some of the shots seen here are similar in a way to Chris' Ferrari F12 review. Regardless, fantastic vid and I look forward to your lap times. :)
Good!
Really cool intro
Evo,
Thank you for all of the great videos but I have a request: turn the in-car camera around so it is facing forward (like 8:54 in this video). Richard has excellent insight into the cars he drives BUT it only goes so far. I want to get a better sense of how the car behaves to driver inputs. Thanks again.
I wish they had more footage of the hot lap.
Ferrari 458 speciale vs McLaren 650s vs Lamborghini huracan would be one of the best head to heads ever imo
loved the pov shots. now bring a 650 and a gt3. i suspect the gt3's time will be interesting considering its power deficit.
And this is how it's done!!
Best drivers car in production today?
I love the cars Ferrari makes but ever since I found Chris Harris and found out what Ferrari do for every review, I hated the company, they're such ignorant twats, they don't allow you any freedom with their cars unless you say only positive things about them and don't publicise their "secrets" like Chris Harris did. Great review anyway though Richard, amazing car.
Then Chris Harris bought a Ferrari of his own and only said good things so now he is allowed to test Ferrari's again....
Starting to get really bored with this stupidity of the "tweaked" Ferraris, or different from production or whatever... Mclaren does exactly the same thing (car magazine mclaren mp4 12c mega test, search the video). These things, these lap times and comparisons are obviously very important from a markting point of view, so its perfectly natural that the marks want to be supplying cars in their absolute possible best for the magazines. Also, these supercars are extremely sensitive to alignment set ups and these go off quite easily with suspensions as adjustable as these so its very easy for a car to not be in top form. And then there is the weight of some options that some or most owners order, and then theres the condition of tires...
I love Chris Harris - the best automotive journalist in the world end of story - even though I am a Ferrari guy and hes obviously a Porsche guy, and I understand his complaints, but, honestly, even the man himself owns 2 Ferraris!!! What the heck is this nonsense? Furthermore, I think it is know common knowledge is back driving Ferraris press cars so now you get your own ideas.
You know Harris owns an FF now...right?
***** Not anymore. He just sold it.
Tommy Pickles He's also sad to see it go.
Great video, but why not show footage from the timed lap?
Would have loved to see the fast lap!
be interesting to see what kinda beast tries to beat the speciales time on this superb track
Great video, but one of the most important thing was not shown, the serious lap!
I'm guessing this is from the 650S v 458S session where Ferrari said no video for the comparison?
That issue was in the Autocar video. This Evo battle has GT3,650S,and Speciale.
The 650S came with standard P 0 tires. It was a handful without the new Corsa's.458 brakes were reported better then both. The 650S were the worst. The GT3 was very close to a well tuned 458 on track. Actually less then a sec.
Ferrari came with tires,engineers and test driver.
GT3 was borrowed from a owner with fresh engine swap and chips in the passenger seat.
I did read the article of this Evo battle.
Autocar used this same track with 458 and 650S.
They timed both but I have yet to see any results.
It was reported they were very close to each other.
Ferrari declined to do a head 2 head video on track.
***** LOL you are a deluded fanboy. FACT
Best car since the F40. This is a thoroughbred race horse.
Pleas we want the complete hot lap!.
That is the way a high level sports car should sound like...want one.
What the hell, were they prohibited from filming the road, why is it that the only thing I see the whole video is the reviewers face?
Drifting and Safety.......Buy Them!
What a job
1 angry 458 lol love it!
Was it a different person driving the car when it went to the other camera because you can see they have sunglasses on
Different shots..
chris harris - f12 all over the place but i loved it
Is it as easy as it looks to drift a rwd super car?
I see all the top gear, fifth, evo guys do it even out on the open road. I feel like i'd just spin it all the way round and crash. Or is it easy to get the hang of?
Dickie, why not show the entire timed lap? That would have been MEGA!
And show it from the outside go pro: that gives the best shots. (for eg look at monkeyboys 458 spider vid on //DRIVE)
Dream
A little color correction wouldn't have hurt that opening shot.
I don't like the black bits on the sides on that one. It's an optional extra I know but kinda ruins it for me.
But something tells us we'll have our work cut out.... That something being the non standard super soft tyres Ferrari bolted to it to get a 1:14 lap time probably :}
wish i could have seen the fast lap
Please evo. This is not a "dig" im liking this new angelsy lap time battle but just can you keep the driver the same for all cars the 911, gtr and m5 have all been done by the same racing driver yet the Ferrari hasn't. For a good comparison and it is interesting to us to have that comparison keep the driver the same please
evo pls i want
see this agains the 911 gt3
i wana see 360CS, 430S and this in a video
Wait until they have a proper go in a Z06 Corvette and a Nismo GTR. Truly exciting time to be a gearhead.
Speciale or 991 gt3?
All the extras that come with ferrari but you cant knock them this car is a dream an is so much better than the 650s in my opinion