The Ferrari 458 Speciale is damn near perfect. Naturally, Jeff Segal had to change it, waving the magic wand that Ferrari overlooked: a manual transmission.This story originally appeared in Volume 22 of Road Track.My first sip of the 458 Speciale came at Fiorano in 2013. Like a bright-red aperitivo, its bracing flavor haunted me for months.
H-patterned metal gates are chamfered just so to let the shift rod glide with extra-virgin smoothness. The redheaded V-8 plays peekaboo under a Lexan panel, purring its flat-plane-crank come-on. Just a decade ago, that engine set a historic high for specific V-8 output, coaxing 597 horses from a 4.5-liter displacement.
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