Your favorite car magazine has returned to strap on the company’s newest mid-­engined doorstop, the 458 Italia, with 562 horsepower straining to run down insolent peasants. At the moment, someone else is piloting, and perhaps it’s just a feeling, but Ferrari test driver Raffaele De Simone seems to relish downshifting to second for that tight left-hander in the track’s southwest corner, near the apartment blocks. We emerge sideways in a ballet of bawling ­rubber, the tach screwed up to its window-rattling, 9000-rpm redline.

With all that being said, it was decided that this Ferrari 458 would be best fitted with our Brixton Forged R11-R Ultrasport+ Monoblock wheels finished in Sterling Silver (Gloss). Enjoy.

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