FERRARI 458 SPECIALE
THE NATURALLY ASPIRATED SPECIALE IS THE LAST OF ITS BREED. THAT’S WHY IT’S HERE
ASSOCIATE EDITOR NEWMAN tumbles out of the Speciale looking like he’s just won lotto and got Scarlett Johansson’s phone number in the last 15 minutes. He says nothing, just laughs. “It’s the best car I’ve ever driven,” he finally stutters. I know, I say – I was similarly speechless and fawning not 30 minutes earlier.
Dare dispute it, but for nearly 70 years Ferrari has made the world’s best naturally aspirated engines. Only recently, as emission regulations tighten, Ferrari has reluctantly turned back to turbos. Last year an anonymous Ferrari executive confessed to US mag Car & Driver, “we don’t like the turbo. But it’s the right way to reduce emissions without sacrificing performance.”
When the California T arrived last
