There’s been many a boo and hiss at the onset of the turbocharging era in performance motoring. In fact, there’s probably been enough. A Ferrari 488 has most of the aural pantomime and twice the performance of a 355, 360 or 430.
DEC 16th 2016
Video: Ferrari F430 Scuderia 16M screaming onboard at FOS 2009
What we can do instead of lamenting the death of free-breathing, is celebrate and enjoy what decades of atmospheric induction have produced. That’s where the video above comes in. There’s no denying the spectacular noise of this open-topped stripped out F430 16M Scuderia Spider as it hammers up the hillclimb at 2009’s FOS. Those slightly lurchy shifts are rather quaint, too. A stunning car, from a time when Ferrari was knocking on the very peak of its naturally-aspirated game. Which mid-engined V8 prancing horse would you have in your stable?
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