Ferrari F430 F1 Spider

Ferrari F430 F1 Spider

This is going to sound daft, but imagine some big organ pipes – the sort of tubes you might find in a church – bubbling air through liquid. Or try to remember when you were five, and discovered that blowing through a straw into your drink was another excellent way to annoy your parents. Well, the satin bubbling noises that resulted are just one of a whole range of sounds that you will hear from the exhaust pipes of a Ferrari F430, which must be the nearest to a musical instrument that a waste disposal system has got to.

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First drive data

How much?

• Price as tested £135,300
• Price as tested £133,200

How fast?

• 0-62 mph 4 sec
• Max speed 196 mph

How big?

• Weight 1450 kg

How thirsty?

• Combined 15.4 mpg
• CO₂ emissions 420 g/km

Engine

• Layout 8 , 4308 cc
• Max power 483 bhp at 8500 rpm
• Max torque 343 lb ft at 5250 rpm

Source: autocar.co.uk