Reservation-holders for the 458Italia were invited to an exclusive UK preview of the car at the Hurlingham Club last night and I went along with Martin King, one of our long standing members in London (see him grinning in the photo below).
The car is absolutely fantastic...with lots of new design features that you don't really appreciate from pictures, but I'll try all the same...
My favourites are the triple pipe exhaust, the Prancing Horse at the front (which is actually in suspended animation), and all the driver controls have been moved on to the steering wheel so there are no indicator and headlight sticks. It looks lovely,
although I'm not sure how easy it will be to figure out which way to indicate when your hands are half-twisted when you are on a roundabout - Of course Italian drivers don't use indicators anyway so I can see why they didn't bother worrying about it!
Personally I really like it in this 'new yellow' colour but Martin wasn't convinced and when we found out it was a £12,000 option, the debate ended quite sharpish. Best of all, I did't meet anyone with an earlier due date than e25.
Note to self: I really must get better at taking pictures.
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