Ferrari F430 Scuderia (Watch out world!)

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While Lamborghini's Superleggera, Audi's R8, GM's Corvette "SS", Porsche's 911 GT2, Mercedes' CLK63 AMG Black Series, & Aston Martin's DBS have been stunning the world of auto enthusiasts, Ferrari has arrived to silence the rest, and gain it's own, well-deserved bit of press. Ferrari have now unveiled the F430 Scuderia, which should make the world's manufacturer's take caution while approaching. :)
The Ferrari 430 Scuderia. Michael Schumacher will officially unveil the car at the Frankfurt Motor Show.

The new Ferrari 430 Scuderia will join the road-going V8 line-up alongside the F430 coupé and the F430 Spider. The 430 Scuderia is a truly high-performance 2-seater berlinetta which demonstrates how Ferrari’s Formula 1 know-how is carried across to its production cars.

The new model is a special series based on the F430 and is aimed specifically at Ferrari’s most passionate and sports-driving oriented clients. Development focused on light weight, minimum trimmings and innovative technology. All this to exalt the car’s extremely high-performance and ability to thrill the driver.

The new car can count on an extremely low weight-to-power ratio of just 2.45 kg per hp thanks to a low dry weight of just 1250 kg - 100 kg less than the standard F430 – and to the naturally-aspirated 4308cc V8’s 510 hp at 8500 rpm.

Superb performance both on and off the track is assured by a series of cutting-edge solutions. There is the latest F1 software - Superfast – which reduces gearchange times to just 60 milliseconds, and new traction control which, for the first time, combines the E-Diff electronic differential and the F1-Trac traction and stability control in a single integrated system.

Vehicle dynamics, control and performance thus represent the zenith of Ferrari’s achievements in terms of developing road-certified sports cars.

The 430 Scuderia will be officially unveiled by Michael Schumacher on September 11 2007 at the IAA Motor Show in Frankfurt.
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DWA
Get rid of the lame stripes and gold wheels and it's pretty cool.
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Not sure about the stripes, but the gold wheels pay homage to these.
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Yeah, but at least that one has character. It's just not something you do on a modern car with modern wheels. I guess maybe the Subie and a certain looking Honda would be the only exceptions. Either way the color or shade of the wheel doesn't work.
 
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Not sure about the stripes, but the gold wheels pay homage to these.
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^ By the way, what ferrari is that? 👍

BT-> Looks like it won't be called "F430 Challenge Stradale" anymore, and I like the shortened name "Scuderia" like the F1 team. Looks like I have to update my wish list now. :crazy:

-> I'm looking forward to drive it on GT5 if it won't show up in GT5P. :)

-> And also:

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^ What's up with that goofy badge at the back? A lot of people know thats a F430! They should've put a small discreet sticker on it doors. :indiff:
 
^ Hmm, all I know that the F430 insignia is on it right side mirrors, I've always liked badge-less Ferraris.

-> Well the the 360 Challenge Stradale had that "Challenge Stradale" badge on its back too, shame on me. :dunce:
 
So was the Challenge Stradale's. Stradale meant "road," as in the road version of the Challenge race car. Scuderia means "stable." Doesn't have quite the same connotations, even with knowledge that it refers to the F1 team.
 
True. But most of the Ferrari owners on FChat aren't taking it too happily, so they appreciate that their CS names are still unique to them.
 
Nobody makes a car like Ferrari. Are those wheels magnesium, though?
 
Ferrari is still my favorite of the Italian super-de-duper builders, and this car pretty much solidifies it. While I do in fact mourn the loss of the Challenge name, I think we'll get used to this pretty quick. Either way, the improved performance, extra neat stuff all over the car, not to mention the unimaginably sexy exhaust note add up to a car that is simply unmatched.

Well, I mean, its matched, and it will probably get beaten by a few, but nevertheless, Ferrari carries that BMW-like weight with it in which it just cannot lose, simply because its a Ferrari.

Throw the Porsche GT3, Corvette Z07, Dodge SRT-10, and the aforementioned Superlaggra in the ring with the Scuderia, and it should be one helluva fight...
 
You can polish a turd all you want... it'll still look like a turd.

Yech.
 
Whatever.....the car looks awesome to me.But i don't know which looks better,a Hamann F430 or a Scuderia F430?But i think the Scuderia name is a homage to the Scuderia Ferrari F1 team and to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Ferrari.But i agree with a few things,the gold rim and the dials are well overdone.Looks too ricey to me....
 
I like it, even with 'gold' wheels. They do look a little spindly for race inspired ones IMO. I don't have a problem with the name, it's not like Ferrari have any long history of using the name Challenge Stradale is it?
 
YSSMAN
Ferrari is still my favorite of the Italian super-de-duper builders, and this car pretty much solidifies it.
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Exactly! 👍


It's ridiculous how Ferrari keeps improving their cars, take the gearing for instance, gear change in 60 milliseconds...I don't know about you guys but if I were to buy that car and the dealer would begin with "Well, sir, this Scuderia makes sure you are in your next gear in just 60 milliseconds...", I'd be :dunce:

Impressive though, once again Ferrari shows their rivals the door (?), go Ferrari!
 
118bhp/L from an NA V8 is quite something.

Nice to see that, after Porsche has really proved the merit of the concept with the GT3 RS, that other manufacturers are creating really hardcore "specials" from their (comparatively) mass-market models. Although I think that spending that kind of money on a track-day car is not a good value proposition, I like the idea of it's being road legal, and being completely outlandish. Taking a stripped out road-racer like that and using it on mundane roads has the sort of perverse appeal that I find compelling.
 
I've never really been a big fan of the F430 to begin with, but this model looks absolutely stunning. I love what they did to the rear end of the car. 👍
 
TheCracker
I like it, even with 'gold' wheels. They do look a little spindly for race inspired ones IMO. I don't have a problem with the name, it's not like Ferrari have any long history of using the name Challenge Stradale is it?
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Ferrari seems to have brought out a new name for each time they used a non-numbered name: Maranello, Modena...um, I know there's others.... But they never stuck to any one name for any length of time. The word on this "name change" is that they don't like to repeat the same story.

The gold wheels are not the right look for that car. They look like Mugen knock-off's. Gold isn't the right color for that type of wheel on that car. White, black, and all sorts of greys would have worked, but not gold. And whatever was wrong with the BBS-ish wheels from the 599GTB?
 
GM should have never let Fiat go... just incase u didn't know Fiat has a sports car line coming up to compete with porshe/VW audi line of sports cars and also fiat own ferrari just another tid bit
 
The problem with the GM deal was that FIAT was going to force GM to outright buy the company at the time, something in which many GM folks not only in Europe, but in the US as well, didn't feel as though FIAT was a good idea at the time. Keep in mind, this was before GM came to the complete realization that they were in trouble, long before they sold-off Isuzu, Fuji, and Suzuki.

...Now, with FIAT doing much better, and GM in a better position than what they were years ago, one would have liked it to occur, but they made the right decision. Sure, I'd love to be able to buy FIAT and Alfa models and have them serviced at the local Chevrolet dealer, but everything is all right.

Oh, and while FIAT does have partial ownership of Ferrari (I believe it is less than 50%), Ferrari acts like an independent company in the FIAT group. That is partially why Maserati went from Ferrari control to Alfa Romeo control, as Ferrari no longer wanted to deal with having to manage two brands... That doesn't mean however that they won't share parts and technologies, it just won't be as "exclusive" as it used to be.
 

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