A Ride with a Vancouver Ferrari F430 Enthusiast

Vancouver, a city beautifully saturated with exotic cars and die-hard car enthusiasts from every background. I make it a point every year to leave my beloved state of Florida and embark on a sacred automotive pilgrimage, if you will, to Vancouver to meet up with other like minded gear heads and just maybe, if I’m fortunate enough, have the opportunity to photograph some automotive gems in the flesh. This year was no different than my trip last year except for one small difference. Well, one MAJOR difference, actually.

Let me introduce you to one remarkably beautiful Ferrari F430 that’s zipping around the streets of Vancouver:

My good friends and owners of this particular vehicle, the Grewal’s, are one of the most genuine car enthusiasts you’ll ever come across. In fact, 5 years ago they founded the largest Vancouver European automotive forum for all car enthusiasts in the Vancouver area: http://www.vancouvereuros.com.

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Ferrari Officially Announces the 458 Italia

A new mid-engine V8 Ferrari set to replace the F430 has been officially announced as the 458 Italia. With all of the rumors and speculations in the past months, a new breath of fresh air hits the automotive blogosphere as a new Italian horse with a 4.5-liter direct-injected V8 with 570 hp, 398 lb-ft of torque and a 12.5:1 compression ratio sets to hit the market.

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Epic Fail! How Do You Manage To Look So Silly In a Ferrari F430 Scuderia?

How Do You Manage To Look So Silly In a Ferrari F430 Scuderia? You forget how to put it into gear!

Obviously the guy portrayed in this video has some serious issues. He is in a Ferrari F430 Scuderia and somehow does not know how to put the car into gear. Now, if you own such a vehicle (base price: $281,618), you may want to read the owner’s manual on how to put it into gear… or at least listen to the sales official when he goes through the demonstration of the vehicles features. We all know Ferrari does not drop the ball when it comes to educating a new owner on one of their Formula 1 outfitted vehicles especially in the case of being equipped with an F1 style sequential manual gearbox. For some reason I feel like ripping the head off of this guy but I will keep my composure for now. Maybe the person driving this vehicle is not the owner… or maybe he is just a complete idiot (look at the silly sticker on the side). You be the judge, enjoy the video after the jump.

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Ferrari F430 Crashed at Nicholas Cage’s Newest Movie Set – Video

A Ferrari F430 was wrecked on the set of “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”, Nicholas Cage’s newest movie. In the event, two pedestrians were injured. We know many of Nicholas Cage’s movies are known for having fast cars in them and “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” is yet another one. Luckily, Cage was not in this car during the accident. Wonder if the stunt driver had traction control on at the time of the accident?

Exclusive video from the New York Post below after the jump…

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Novitec Rosso Ferrari Scuderia Spider 16M

How do you even attempt to improve the Ferrari F430 Scuderia Spider 16M? Well, looks easy for Novitec by adding a supercharger, hydraulic coil-over suspension, 20 inch NF3 wheels with Pirelli Tires and black tail lights. There you have it, 696hp, suspension that raises and lowers the car at the touch of a button and the looks that could literally kill!

Novitec fitted twin superchargers to the already tuned to the max Ferrari V8 engine upping horsepower by 186hp from the factory model. You could guess that the 0-60 time would only get better from the factory spec of 0-60 in 3.7 seconds. The wheels are (Novitec Rosso) NF3 20×8.5 inch in the front and 20×12 inch in the rear. That’s a lot of Pirelli meat wrapped around those forged custom painted wheels that fit this modded Italian horse very well.

Novitec Rosso Ferrari F430 Scuderia Spider 16M

  

[source: ferrarituningmag.com]

200MPH Club: The Benchmark Has Been Set – Can You Keep Up?

Supercars are now part of a new club in my opinion. Whether you agree with me or not, a new benchmark as has been set for performance cars to be called a “supercar”. The 200mph mark seems almost like a standard if a car wants to be in the once-sacred “supercar status”. I realize many supercars only reach speeds just shy of 200mph but when you consider the over-all performance of some vehicles and the astonishing capabilities, you might as-well welcome them to the 200mph club. With a few (pricy) bolt-ons or ECU programming you may be able to add another 10 to 20 mph to the top speed of many supercars anyway.

Our good friend, Chris Grosser, set out to Ochopee, Florida at a rented 2 mile long aviation runway just recently. The goal was to achieve top speed (in a supercar) during a series of runs in a controlled environment. I am not sure of anything that is more fun other than blasting down flat-out on a runway in a supercar. Below is the excerpt from Chris’s new blog. I encourage you to check out some of his professional photography shots if you have the time.

Image Gallery and excerpt from Chris Grosser’s site below…

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Ferrari F430 w/ 360 Forged Carbon Wheels In Action – Video

As a follow-up to our previous post on the “All Carbon Fibered Out – Ferrari F430 on 360 Forged Carbon Fiber Wheels“ we have a video showing this astounding vehicle on the road spinning all 4 360 Forged Carbon Fiber styled wheels. Down in Miami, FL they like to do it big and this Ferrari F430 does just that. Not many cars look as nice standing still as they do in motion. Enjoy the video below after the jump.

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All Carbon Fibered Out – Ferrari F430 on 360 Forged Carbon Fiber Wheels

Exotics and Luxury, part of the automotive network at Automotive Addicts, posted images of a Ferrari F430 with new 360 Forged Carbon Straight 5ive Wheels. These remarkable rims do the F430 justice. These are not your average custom rims.

  

View more information and hi-res images at ExoticsandLuxury.com.

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