Car & Driver takes the 458 Spider to Stelvio Pass

Color us jealous. Car and Driver's European correspondent Jethro Bovingdon, enjoys some top-down seat time in one of our favorites, the 562hp Ferrari 458 Spider. The kicker is he gets to do it on one of Italy's most famous road, the Stelvio Pass.

The road was completed in 1825 by the Austrian Empire to connect the former Austrian province of Lombardia with the rest of Austria, and at 9045 feet, its the highest paved mountain pass in the Eastern Alps, featuring 60 hairpin tunrs, and breathtaking views.

As Bovingdon notes in the video, "...if you were to draw your favorite road on a piece of paper it would look like this."

Top Gear picks this road as its choice for the "Greatest driving road in the world", after watching this video we tend to agree.

 

That was great, thanks for sharing.

The sound of the 458 is to die for

 

Absolutely fantastic video!

 

Awesome video!

 

That would make an awesome opening scene for a modern Italian Job.

 

Lovely .. and then Jethro came along and i face palmed myself to a fvckin nosebleed..

 

amazing vid.