Ferrari 458 Italia, Spider and Speciale: history, specs and values

The Ferrari 458 is the mid-engined V8 sports car that Ferrari built at Maranello from 2009 to 2015, in four road versions: the 458 Italia coupé, the 458 Spider with a folding aluminium hard top, the lighter 458 Speciale and the open Speciale A, of which there were 499. All of them have a 4.5-litre V8 without turbochargers that revs to 9,000rpm and makes 570cv (562bhp), or 605cv (597bhp) in the Speciale and Speciale A. The turbocharged 488 GTB replaced it in 2015.

People still look it up for what one costs now (prices rose sharply in 2026, and a Speciale sold for £1.1 million at auction that August), for its class wins at Le Mans, and for the fires of summer 2010 that made Ferrari recall every car it had sold.

History of the Ferrari 458

Ferrari presented the 458 Italia at the Frankfurt motor show in September 2009 as the replacement for the F430, and production began at the start of 2010. Ferrari's own history of the car says the name pairs the name of the country with a number for the engine, and that Michael Schumacher, the seven-time world champion, contributed to its design.

Replacing the F430

The F430 of 2004 had a 4.3-litre V8 of 490cv at 8,500rpm, according to Ferrari's F430 page. The 458 kept the layout (a 90-degree V8 behind the cabin, driving the rear wheels) and changed almost everything else: a new engine with direct injection, a seven-speed twin-clutch gearbox with no manual option, a new aluminium chassis made at Ferrari's Scaglietti works in Modena, and a body styled by Pininfarina. A SkiddMark report of August 2009 noted that Ferrari's first video of the 458 already sounded different to the outgoing F430.

Launch, price and the first deliveries

The Italia listed at £169,545 in the UK, with first deliveries due in the summer of 2010. In February 2010, CAR magazine reported Glass's Guide's finding that buyers were already paying a premium of £25,000 to jump the queue, so the first cars were changing hands for close to £200,000. Glass's prestige editor, Richard Crosthwaite, called that premium "exceptionally high". The options list was long: Autocar's 2021 used buying guide puts the extras on some cars at up to £40,000, among them racing seats, an Alcantara headlining and a carbon fibre steering wheel.

Spider, Speciale and the end of production

The 458 Spider followed at the Frankfurt show in September 2011, the 458 Speciale at Frankfurt in September 2013 and the Speciale A at the Paris show in October 2014. The 458's successor, the 488 GTB of 2015, has a twin-turbocharged 3.9-litre V8 of 670cv. evo's 2024 history of the Speciale notes that the 488's engine gave more than 40 per cent more torque than the Speciale's at half the revs, and that the 458 Speciale was the last naturally aspirated V8 Ferrari.

Design and engineering

The 458 is a two-seat coupé with an aluminium chassis and a V8 mounted lengthways behind the seats; Ferrari's engineers used Formula 1 practice in the engine, the gearbox and the controls. The body is by Pininfarina, and Autocar says its design drew on the Enzo and on Ferrari's Millechili concept.

Body and aerodynamics

The nose has a single grille opening with two small aeroelastic winglets that make downforce and bend back as speed rises, closing down the radiator intakes to cut drag. Ferrari's 458 Spider page, which describes the same nose, says the Spider is as aerodynamically efficient as the Italia and 12 per cent more efficient than the F430 Spider. At the back, three exhaust pipes sit together in the centre, and the Italia shows its engine under a glass cover.

The F136 V8 engine

The engine is Ferrari's F136 V8 in its 4.5-litre 458 form (4,497cc on Ferrari's current pages, 4,499cc on its 2011 Italia sheet), with a flat-plane crank, a bore and stroke of 94mm by 81mm and a compression ratio of 12.5:1. It was Ferrari's first mid-mounted engine with direct injection, and it gives 570cv at 9,000rpm and 540Nm (398lb ft) at 6,000rpm. That is 127cv per litre. Ferrari's 2011 technical sheet for the Italia counts 5cv of that power as ram effect from the intakes at speed.

In May 2011 the 458's V8 won the "Best Performance Engine" and "Above 4-litre" classes of the International Engine of the Year awards, evo reported, and Ferrari says it won both again in 2012 and 2014. Chevrolet later benchmarked it for the flat-plane V8 of the current Corvette Z06: evo says its engineers bought a 458 engine on eBay for $25,000, shipped from Poland, and stripped it to see how Ferrari dealt with the vibration such engines make.

Transmission, steering and handling

The only transmission is a seven-speed twin-clutch gearbox with paddles, Getrag's Powershift 7DCL750, whose two clutches overlap as they change so that the drive is never interrupted. S&P Global's AutoTechInsight reported its launch on the 458 Italia as Getrag's first twin-clutch gearbox with an active differential lock, which Ferrari calls the E-Diff 3. Suspension is by double wishbones at the front and a multi-link layout at the rear, with second-generation magnetorheological dampers (SCM2), and carbon-ceramic brakes are standard. Ferrari says the stiffer suspension (35 per cent more vertical rigidity than the F430) allowed a quicker steering ratio. CAR's road test team wrote in 2016 that this "crazily swift steering rack" seemed alien on the first drive in 2010 and had since become part of every Ferrari.

Interior and steering-wheel controls

Most of the controls are on the steering wheel, including the indicators (there are no stalks) and the manettino switch that sets the traction control, differential and dampers, with positions that include Sport, Race, CT Off and ESC Off. Ferrari says the instrument panel was developed from its single-seaters and for the first time gave the driver a set of readings to help get the best from the car.

Ferrari 458 specs and performance

A 458 Italia reaches 100km/h (62mph) in under 3.4 seconds and goes on to more than 325km/h (202mph), on Ferrari's figures; the Speciale cuts the sprint to 3.0 seconds. The table gives Ferrari's figures for the four road cars.

Sources: Ferrari's 2011 Italia technical sheet; Ferrari's pages for the Spider, Speciale and Speciale A. The Italia's Fiorano time is from Ferrari's 2013 launch figures for the Speciale (see the Fiorano table below). Dry weights are with the lightest options (forged wheels and racing seats on the Italia). All four share a 2,650mm wheelbase and a 42/58 front-to-rear weight split.

How fast is a Ferrari 458?

In acceleration the fastest 458s are the Speciale and the Speciale A, both quoted at 3.0 seconds to 100km/h. In top speed the coupés lead: Ferrari quotes the Italia and Speciale at over 325km/h and the two open cars at 320km/h. The Italia's 1,380kg dry weight gives 2.42kg for each cv, against 2.13kg for the Speciale. Ferrari's braking figure for the Spider is 32.8 metres from 100km/h to rest.

How much horsepower does a Ferrari 458 have?

The Italia and Spider have 570cv, which is 562bhp in British terms, and the Speciale and Speciale A have 605cv, or 597bhp. Ferrari called the Speciale's 135cv per litre a world record for a naturally aspirated road car engine.

Fiorano lap times

Ferrari times its cars round its own Fiorano test track, and at the Speciale's launch in August 2013 its figures set the new car against the fastest Ferrari road cars.

Source: SkiddMark, "Ferrari's race-inspired 458 is very Speciale indeed", 20 August 2013, from Ferrari's launch figures.

Ferrari 458 models: Italia, Spider, Speciale and Speciale A

Ferrari sold four road versions of the 458, plus a limited edition for China, and built one-off cars on it for private customers.

Ferrari 458 Italia

The coupé is the original car, built from the start of 2010 until the 488 GTB took its place in 2015. In the UK it is the most numerous 458, with 637 on the DVLA's books in mid-2026 (see the registration table below).

Ferrari 458 Spider

The Spider was the first car to put a retractable hard top on a mid-engined chassis, says Ferrari. The two aluminium sections of the roof fold in 14 seconds into a 100-litre space ahead of the engine, and Ferrari says the roof weighs 25kg less than a fabric one would. The engine cover is solid in place of the Italia's glass, and the Spider weighs 50kg more dry.

When Ferrari released the details in August 2011, it claimed that the electric wind stop allowed normal conversation above 125mph, and a SkiddMark report advised UK buyers not to "expect much change from £200,000". The space behind the seats takes a golf bag.

Ferrari 458 Speciale

The Speciale is the lightened, more powerful coupé of 2013, Ferrari's "special series" in the line of the 360 Challenge Stradale and 430 Scuderia. It has 605cv from a 14:1 compression ratio, weighs 90kg less than the Italia (thinner glass, a Lexan rear screen, a stripped cabin and wheels 12kg lighter) and wears Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tyres made for it. It was also the first car with Ferrari's Side Slip Angle Control (SSC), which compares the car's slip angle with a target and adjusts the torque and the differential to suit.

Its active aerodynamics were a new Ferrari patent: two vertical flaps in the nose open above 170km/h to cut drag, and a horizontal flap below them lowers above 220km/h to move downforce towards the rear. Ferrari unveiled it in red with a blue and white stripe taken from the North American Racing Team's colours.

Ferrari 458 Speciale Aperta (Speciale A)

The Speciale A ("A" for Aperta, open) puts the Speciale's engine and aerodynamics into the Spider's body. The Automobile Club de l'Ouest reported from the 2014 Paris show that the Speciale Aperta was a series of only 499, which Ferrari said paid homage to the 458's racing wins, the latest the GTE Pro class at Le Mans that June. It weighs 1,340kg dry and reaches 200km/h in 9.5 seconds.

458 Italia China 20th anniversary edition

In April 2012 Ferrari made 20 Italias for China to mark 20 years since its first car there, a 348 TS, was ordered in Beijing. The cars had a new colour, Marco Polo Red, a golden dragon on the bonnet, gold wheels and winglets, and a start button marked with the Chinese characters for "start".

Eric Clapton's SP12 EC

The SP12 EC is a one-off on 458 Italia mechanicals that Ferrari's One-Off programme built for Eric Clapton, with a body that recalls the 512 BB, of which Clapton owned three. It appeared at the HR Owen Ferrari showroom in central London on the evening of 21 March 2012, at the launch party for the 458 Spider, while the owner was still asking Ferrari to release no pictures or details. A SkiddMark report the next day confirmed it kept the 458's V8 and all its running gear, and set out the One-Off programme as Ferrari explained it that afternoon.

Ferrari chooses the customers, and they can change anything that is not homologated, which means most of the bodywork but not the mechanical parts. If the windscreen is changed, Ferrari makes five spares for the owner to keep, and if the owner sells after an agreed period, Ferrari guarantees to buy the car back at the price paid. Ferrari said it could take on two or three such projects a year.

Ferrari released the first official pictures in May 2012. Autocar reported on 28 May 2012 that Clapton took delivery at the start of the year and delayed registering it to get a "12" plate. In an interview with the Official Ferrari Magazine, Clapton called the project "one of the most satisfying things I've ever done".

The 458 Italia fires and the wheel-arch recall

In summer 2010 five new 458 Italias burned out, and on 1 September 2010 Ferrari recalled every Italia it had built that year, 1,248 cars, to replace glued wheel-arch liners with mechanically fastened ones.

What was reported at the time

A SkiddMark story of 25 August 2010 followed reports that ten of the new 458s sold in the previous three months had either crashed or caught fire. Its pictures showed a black car that caught fire in Paris, whose driver saw flames round the rear clamshell and could not put them out with his extinguisher; one that went up on a Swiss mountain road; and the remains of one in Costa Mesa, California. Ferrari told the press it could not comment on individual cases, was investigating, and had not ruled out driver error. The car then cost £176,000 in the UK, and the report set it against the Noble M600, about £30,000 more, and the Pagani Zonda C12S at twice the price.

What caused the 458 fires?

Ferrari traced them to the adhesive that held the heat shields in the rear wheel arches. A Ferrari spokesman told BBC News on 1 September 2010 that in certain conditions the glue could overheat, smoke and catch fire, and that the melting glue could let the liner deform towards the exhaust until it caught fire too. Ferrari's engineers had flown out to inspect five "thermal incidents". Writing in evo the same day, Harry Metcalfe gave the places as France, the USA, Switzerland and China. Ferrari said it would replace the five burnt cars free of charge (CAR later put the number of early cars that caught fire at "fewer than a dozen"), and none of the 50 or so 458s in the UK had been affected. Sports Car Market listed Eric Clapton, the footballer Louis Saha and the broadcaster Chris Evans among the owners whose cars were recalled.

Later recalls on the 458

In May 2012 Ferrari recalled 74 California and 458 Italia cars in the US because a crankshaft-grinding machine had been set up wrongly, which could make the engine seize; the first engine to fail was in the car Ferrari lent to journalists, the Los Angeles Times reported. The US safety regulator's recall records also list Takata passenger airbag inflators in 2010–2011 Italias (campaign 16V341, later 18V188 and 20V007) and in 2014–2015 Italias and Spiders and the 2015 Speciale A (19V006), and, in October 2021, a brake-fluid reservoir cap and software update for certain 458s from 2010 to 2015 (21V833), because the brakes could leak fluid.

The Ferrari 458 in racing

The 458 raced in three main forms: the 458 Challenge for Ferrari's one-make series, the 458 Italia GT2 (GTE) for Le Mans and the World Endurance Championship, and the 458 Italia GT3 for customer GT racing.

458 Challenge

The 458 Challenge was shown to Ferrari's dealers at Maranello on 14 July 2010 for the 2011 Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli, the fifth Ferrari after the 348, 355, 360 and F430 to be used in the series. Ferrari's page on the car says the engine stayed in road tune, while the car got thinner panels, Lexan windows, 19-inch centre-lock wheels, Pirelli slicks and a ride height 50mm lower. It was the first Challenge car with F1-Trac traction control and the E-Diff, set from the manettino. Ferrari's figures at its launch gave a Fiorano lap of 1min 16.5sec, two seconds quicker than the F430 Challenge, and up to 1.6g of lateral grip.

The 458 at Le Mans

Ferrari developed the 458 Italia GT2 with Michelotto for the ACO's GTE rules, and Amato Ferrari's AF Corse team ran the leading cars. In 2012, the first year of the World Endurance Championship, Gianmaria Bruni and Giancarlo Fisichella won four of the eight rounds in the No.51 car, including Le Mans with Toni Vilander, and the car won a fifth at Bahrain with Vilander standing in for Bruni; the FIA WEC's season review says the car was rebuilt after a crash in practice and that Ferrari took the first LMGTE Manufacturers' World Cup, with AF Corse winning the GTE Pro teams' title. The same car won GTE Pro at the Six Hours of Silverstone that August. The ACO counts four Le Mans class wins for the 458 from 2012 to 2016, more than any other car in the two GTE classes since the championship began.

Sources: ACO, guide to the GT cars of 2013 (2012); FIA WEC, 2014 Le Mans round-up (2014); ACO, LM GTE Am at Le Mans 2012–2016 (2015 and 2016). SMP Racing's win in 2015 was the first at Le Mans for a Russian team.

458 Italia GT3

The GT3 car raced in customer hands in national and international GT series in Europe and Australia. It won the Pro-Am Cup at the 2012 Spa 24 Hours (the AF Corse car of Niek Hommerson, Louis Machiels, Andrea Bertolini and Alessandro Pier Guidi, fifth overall). At the first British GT round of 2015 at Oulton Park, the FF Corse 458 of Gary Eastwood and Adam Carroll crossed the line first in GT3, but the stewards judged that Carroll had blocked Rory Butcher's Aston Martin, and after Oman Racing's appeal Butcher and Liam Griffin were given the win. Ferrari's history of the car lists a fourth racing version, a Grand-Am car for American races.

How many Ferrari 458s were made?

Ferrari's model pages give no production totals for the 458; the one fixed number is the Speciale A's run of 499. By the September 2010 recall, nine months into production, Ferrari had sold the 1,248 Italias it called back. What can be counted is the UK fleet: the Department for Transport's vehicle licensing table VEH0120 lists every 458 the DVLA records by model, licensed or declared off the road (SORN).

Source: DfT table VEH0120 (UK), 2026 Q2, rows for the Ferrari 458, with the DVLA's two spellings of each Speciale model added together; counted on 27 October 2026.

The total has hardly moved in ten years: 1,616 at the end of 2015, 1,636 a year later and 1,601 at the end of 2025. Almost half the Speciales (146 of 308) are off the road, against under a quarter of Italias. More cars go on SORN every winter: the Italia's SORN count was 273 at the end of 2025 and 144 by June 2026.

Ferrari 458 price: new and used values

A 458 Italia cost under £170,000 new in 2010, and in 2026 most are advertised for more than that; Speciales now sell for well over twice their list price.

Price new

In August 2010 the Italia started at £176,000. In November 2010 a SkiddMark report compared the McLaren MP4-12C's £168,500 with the Italia's £169,546, noting that the Ferrari price was still at the 17.5 per cent VAT rate due to rise to 20 per cent in January 2011, and that the McLaren's excluded the £9,770 carbon-ceramic brakes that every new Ferrari had as standard.

What a Ferrari 458 costs today

The Classic Valuer's auction records, read in October 2026, give these all-time medians across every sale it has recorded worldwide: £152,335 for the Italia (134 cars sold, lowest £97,308), £187,702 for the Spider (128 sold) and £378,075 for the Speciale (65 sold). Its highest prices are recent: £497,882 for a Spider at Mecum on 15 August 2026 and £1,105,580 for a Speciale at RM Sotheby's on the same day. evo's buying guide of 28 August 2026 found most Italias advertised in the UK at £200,000 to £250,000, Speciales at about £500,000 and Speciale Apertas at well over £1 million.

In 2016 CAR found left-hand-drive Italias from about £105,000 at independent dealers, £145,000 for a right-hand-drive car on Ferrari's approved used scheme, Spiders from £175,000 and Speciales at £350,000 to £400,000. Autocar's guide of June 2021 put coupés with more than 20,000 miles at £115,000 to £125,000, the best coupés and Spiders with few miles at £140,000 to £180,000, and Speciales from £230,000 to about £350,000.

Is the Ferrari 458 going up in value?

Yes: values rose sharply in 2026. evo found Italias that had been available from £115,000 in 2023 advertised at £200,000 or more, and Speciales at double the £250,000 they once fetched; in 2021 Autocar had found Speciales starting at almost £30,000 above their original price. Nick Jessop of the Ferrari dealer Graypaul Nottingham told CAR in 2016 that buyers were already choosing the 458 because it was "the last mid-engined naturally-aspirated V8 before Ferrari moved to turbocharging".

Buying and owning a Ferrari 458

A buyer should check four things: the recall work, the gearbox, the options and how the car has been used.

Ferrari 458 reliability: is it a reliable car?

Autocar lists two faults. Some owners of 2010–2011 cars reported missed gears or damage to the gearbox speed-sensor wiring, most often between 6,000 and 8,000 miles. Spider roofs have jammed when opening, and some have let water in, so look for stains. CAR's 2016 checklist adds the arch-liner recall and the crankshaft recall, which it says affected "a handful of cars built in summer 2011", and notes that the standard carbon-ceramic discs are designed to last 56,000 miles.

What to check before buying

Confirm with a Ferrari dealer that the arch-liner recall and any later campaigns (airbags, brake-fluid cap) have been done. Check the rear tyres for wear and the history for track days; Autocar puts a new tyre at about £300. Make sure the car has the options its listing says: Autocar's example from 2021 was a 2012 car with £25,000 of options. CAR advised avoiding modified cars to keep the Ferrari warranty.

Running costs

Every 458 emits more than 255g/km of CO2 (307g/km for the Italia, 275g/km for the Speciale), so in the UK it pays the top rate for cars registered between 2001 and 2017, band M: £790 a year on GOV.UK's current table. Ferrari quotes fuel consumption of 13.3 litres per 100km (about 21mpg) for the Italia and 11.8 for the Spider, Speciale and Speciale A on the combined cycle, and the tank holds 86 litres. Every new Ferrari since 2011 has come with seven years of free servicing that passes to the next owner, and in 2016 CAR reported that UK right-hand-drive cars meeting Ferrari's approved used standard could have the warranty extended to 12 years. Ferrari's aftersales page now describes warranty and maintenance programmes for a car's first 20 years.

Ferrari 458 rivals

The 458's rivals when new were the McLaren MP4-12C, the Lamborghini Gallardo and later Huracán, the Porsche 911 Turbo and the Mercedes SLS. The MP4-12C undercut the Italia by £1,000 in the UK (see the price section), and in February 2014 McLaren launched the 650S, with 641bhp and a 0–62mph time of 3.0 seconds, against the 458 Speciale. Lamborghini's Huracán LP 610-4 of 2013 had a 601bhp 5.2-litre V10 and four-wheel drive and an expected price a little under the 458's, at about £175,000. The Porsche 911 Turbo S of 2013 came close on power, with 552bhp, but by SkiddMark's reckoning the Speciale was about 250kg lighter than a 911 Turbo.

evo's 2023 test of mid-engined naturally aspirated supercars put the Speciale against the Lamborghini Huracán STO, the Honda NSX-R and the Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS on the Route Napoléon, and writing in 2024, John Barker called the Speciale "peak mid-engined Ferrari without question".

Reception and awards

The 458 won Top Gear Magazine's Car of the Year in its first year, and the Speciale is the only car ever to win evo's Car of the Year unanimously.

Awards

BBC Top Gear Magazine named the Italia its Supercar of the Year and its Car of the Year for 2009, the first time a Ferrari had won its overall title; the magazine called it "the new benchmark in getting from A to B as rapidly as possible" and "a game-changing car". In 2011 its V8 took two International Engine of the Year classes. In 2014 the Speciale won evo's Car of the Year against a field of ten that included the Jaguar F-type R Coupé (second), the Porsche Cayman GTS (third), the McLaren 650S and the BMW M3; Henry Catchpole wrote that "there's never been a car that lets you fly so close to the sun". In 2024 evo named the Speciale the best driver's car of its last 25 years.

Other impressions

SkiddMark's review of 2010 called the 458 "staggeringly pretty in the metal" and said it might be "the best car in the world right now". At Michelin's tyre test at Estoril in 2011 a 458 Italia on Pilot Super Sports was among 48 cars and 1,150 tyres on hand; a track test from the day has in-car pictures. The DJ and producer Chicane, speaking to SkiddMark in August 2010, said he would be "partial to a Ferrari 458" because it was "the first really good looking Ferrari in a very long time".

In September 2011 Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa took the Jamiroquai singer Jay Kay round Fiorano in a 458 Italia, then let him drive, as SkiddMark reported.

Questions

Does the Ferrari 458 have a manual gearbox?

No. Every 458 has the seven-speed twin-clutch F1 gearbox, changed with paddles behind the steering wheel or left in automatic mode.

What engine is in the Ferrari 458?

A 4,497cc V8 from Ferrari's F136 family, with a flat-plane crank and direct injection. It gives 570cv (562bhp) at 9,000rpm in the Italia and Spider and 605cv (597bhp) in the Speciale and Speciale A.

Is the 458 Spider a soft top?

No. It has a two-piece aluminium hard top that folds in 14 seconds into a space in front of the engine. Ferrari says it weighs 25kg less than a fabric roof.

What does the A in 458 Speciale A mean?

Aperta, Italian for open. The Speciale A is the open version of the Speciale, and Ferrari built 499 of them from 2014.

Did Michael Schumacher design the Ferrari 458?

He contributed to it. Ferrari says Schumacher worked on the car's design, while Pininfarina styled the body.

What replaced the Ferrari 458?

The 488 GTB of 2015, which has a twin-turbocharged 3.9-litre V8 of 670cv in place of the 458's naturally aspirated 4.5.

How much is road tax on a Ferrari 458?

£790 a year in the UK on GOV.UK's current table. Every 458 emits more than 255g/km of CO2, which puts it in band M for cars registered from 2001 to 2017.

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