RE: Ferrari 488 'GTO' leaked

[Ares]

Sex wee stuff.

/KeithLemon

[red_slr]

Wonder how these engines are going to perform long term.

10 years ago this kind of power needed high displacement units and then today we are running sub 4L engines with 700+bhp. Mental.

[smilo996]

Still prefer the 458 but 710 from that V8. Bonkers. Well done Ferrari.

[ghost83]

I know I’ve already commented on this but I rly do adore it!

I’ve gone off the mclaren and this far prettier

[je777]

Surely if Ferrari's gearshift times had got faster by the percentage we're told each time a new one comes out, by now they would be shifting gears before you'd even thought of it.

[isaldiri]

Streetrod said:

What really excites me is the prospect of GTE versions of these cars competing in the LeMans series. Now that will be exciting to watch

You do realise the 488 GTE has been competing in WEC (and therefore obviously at le mans) for the last 2 years already.....?

[Slb89]

smilo996 said:

Still prefer the 458 but 710 from that V8. Bonkers. Well done Ferrari.

guys am i missing something here?

the 488 uses turbo charging...

710 from a 3.9L engine with turbo's is not impressive...

you can make more than that with a 1L engine if you wanted... how long you want it to last is the question when making power with forced induction... i.e 1500hp good for 4laps (1.5L turbos 80's f1)

what is impressive is making it lag free so that it drives like NA which they seem to have achieved now through use of parallel small twin-scroll chargers, and making this power reliable enough to be a road car, now that to me is impressive.

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[CraigyMc]

Slb89 said:

smilo996 said:

Still prefer the 458 but 710 from that V8. Bonkers. Well done Ferrari.

guys am i missing something here?

the 488 uses turbo charging?

710 from a 3.9L engine with turbo's is not impressive...

you can make more than that with a 1L engine if you wanted...

what is impressive is making it lag free so that it drives like NA which they seem to have almost achieve now through use of parallel small twin-scroll chargers, and making this power reliable enough to be a road car, now that to me is impressive.

The 488 GTO needs at least 710 to be on a par with a McLaren (the 720S) that is already available, and isn't a special edition.
We don't actually know how much power it'll have yet, as that's not been announced, unless I've missed it.
We also don't know exactly how light it'll be (it will have to go on quite a diet to get down to 720S skeletal levels of weight loss).

[Dave Hedgehog]

CraigyMc said:

The 488 GTO needs at least 710 to be on a par with a McLaren (the 720S) that is already available, and isn't a special edition.
We don't actually know how much power it'll have yet, as that's not been announced, unless I've missed it.
We also don't know exactly how light it'll be (it will have to go on quite a diet to get down to 720S skeletal levels of weight loss).

more so as the 720 dyno's at 760-800 bhp depending on how much you allow for drive line loss

[lukelovescars]

Too fast for the road. Too loud for the track.

[Ares]

lukelovescars said:

Too fast for the road. Too loud for the track.

Too boring to be on PH?

[CraigyMc]

Ares said:

lukelovescars said:

Too fast for the road. Too loud for the track.

Too boring to be on PH?

Be gentle. He has love scars.

[moneymakestheworldgoaround]

[Gameface]

That looks bloody good.

[CraigyMc]

Gameface said:

That looks bloody good.

The mirrors remind me of the cartoon character "Plug" from the Bash St Kids.

I'm not sure why.

[The1Driver]

Just spotted this on LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activi...

This the new GTO?

[PhantomPH]

It looks like a Lambo front end to me. Gallardo Peformante, perhaps?

Certainly more of a Lamborghini design language than a Ferrari one. Still looks like it has potential tho - just not in red for me.

[MDL111]

CraigyMc said:

Ares said:

lukelovescars said:

Too fast for the road. Too loud for the track.

Too boring to be on PH?

Be gentle. He has love scars.

That made me laugh - thank you

[The Vambo]

That is a dogs breakfast, everything they have done to the beautiful 458 since the day it was released has made it look worse and worse.

[SteelySteve]

Looking at the corner of the photo, this might just be called the new 488 Speciale....