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LOT #1379 - 2019 FERRARI 488 SPIDER – NO RESERVE
FORCE OF NATURE

THE 2019 488 SPIDER - EARTH

The historic business model used by Ferrari is to Stare at it up and down and you’ll notice a few details
constantly build supercars that outmatch everything that bring this 488 into a league of its own. For starters,
on the road and racetrack. Then for the next year they this car was specially designed by Ferrari’s Tailor Made
do it all over again. Once they throttled the others at program; an exclusive program where owners are invited
both those locations, they realized that they themselves to the factory in Maranello to work with a designer to
were their only real competition. That’s why history has helm their unique vision. As part of this, Ferrari has
shown “Ferrari” was, and is, a perpetual motion machine created a series of limited collections celebrating various
producing power and excitement that began with Enzo’s aspects of its storied history. With this car, however,
very first spark of imagination. Ferrari paid tribute to the natural order, creating a set
You have to wonder: How can a manufacturer make so of four cars that embody the four elements: fire, wind,
few cars, priced completely out of reach for most, and water and earth.
still be totally infatuating to virtually every person who This stunning 488 is the embodiment of terra firma, a
sees one? This particular 2019 Ferrari 488 Spider (Lot one-of-one prancing horse with 56 delivery miles and a
#1379) can answer that question without even trying. host of exclusive details that showcase its provenance as
a Tailor Made Ferrari. And it can be yours.
Finished in a special dark metallic green with a
metallic white livery over a Peccary Beige and Nero
leather interior, this 488 Spider is powered by a twin-
turbocharged 3.9-liter V8 that generates 660 horsepower
and 561 ft/lbs of torque measured at 3,000 rpm. The
number 488 indicates the total cubic centimeters of the
combustion chamber volume. The engine utilizes the
all-aluminum dry-sump system as used by the F154 V8
engine family. The Spider chassis has been reinforced
to offset the loss of rigidity from not having a solid roof
structure. As a result, the Spider weighs 110 pounds
more than its GTB counterpart. Performance-wise, any
difference between the two is practically imaginary.
The 488’s engine utilizes a flat-plane crankshaft
design in an over-squared block where the bore is
larger in diameter than is the length of the stroke. The
configuration makes the 3.9-liter engine eager to rev to
the stratosphere.
The twin turbos are engineered by IHI/Honeywell and
operate in conjunction with twin air-to-air intercoolers
designed to keep the intake charge cooler and denser for
optimum efficiency during the power generation process.

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