The 458 Spider represents Ferrari at the height of its naturally aspirated era. Its 4.5-litre V8 revs to nearly 9,000 rpm, delivering a soundtrack that turbocharging has since consigned to memory, while the folding aluminium hardtop stows in fourteen seconds to open the cabin to the sky. The seven-speed dual-clutch gearbox shifts with the precision of a racing car, and the chassis — developed with Ferrari's Formula 1 expertise — makes the 458 as composed through a mountain pass as it is arresting on arrival. This is a driver's Ferrari in its purest sense, and among the last of its kind.