Breaking News: The Ferrari 458 Italia Spider will feature a folding hardtop

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Jun 5, 2010 | 03:31 AM

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Mike S

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Originally Posted by isuk

That's old news DJ. The patent pics for the roof design have been floating around the net since last year

It's a two piece design that pivots like the roof on the 575 Superamerica with the two pieces rotating through 180 degrees and stowing stacked above each other in a compartment above the engine.

Welcome onboard here ISUK! I'm glad to see you have started post here as well

Feel free to share that awesome garage of yours

Jun 7, 2010 | 03:34 PM

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AWG

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Guys the 458 will have a soft top convertible, today i talked with the head of ferrari middle east and africa division and he assured me that the car will have a soft top not a hard top. He also told me Ferrari will release this info maybe within this week or next week. The car will be shown in the geneva motor show and first production will be in June 2011.

Jun 7, 2010 | 04:12 PM

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^^I don't know my friend, my source is from the factory but I would hope you are correct.

Jun 7, 2010 | 04:24 PM

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D55L

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While I have heard about folding hardtop as well, I think that soft-top would actually make much more sense.

Jun 8, 2010 | 04:26 AM

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Originally Posted by DJ

^^I don't know my friend, my source is from the factory but I would hope you are correct.

I hope i am mistaken and that guy doesn’t know wht he is talking about :P I ordered both the cars coupe and convertible. ill use the coupe till my convertible comes. then just do a car exchange with them