With the official arrival of the Ferrari F430 at the Paris Motor Show in September 2004 a new generation of 8 cylinder Ferraris was about to make its mark in the World.

Ferrari started to achieve extraordinary technological leaps in the use of aluminium with the 360 Modena, but with the F430 they took this innovation to a whole new level with implementations of techniques learned directly from Ferrari's hugely successful Fomula 1 World Championship winning cars. Two of these had never been seen on a production car before, the electronic differential also known as E-Diff and the switch mounted on the steering wheel which allows the driver to manage different dynamic vehicle settings.

The other main things that set the F430 apart from its predecessor are its lightweight 4.3 litre V8 engine which is good for 490 bhp, a fantastic carbon-ceramic brake setup, an F1 style gearbox which can shift gears in as little as 150 milliseconds and the latest in road hugging aerodynamic design from who else but the style geniuses at Pininfarina. All this goes together to give the Ferrari F430 a blistering 0-62 mph sprint time of 4 seconds and a top speed in excess of 196 mph.