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Ferrari 488 GTB Spotted On the Street for the First Time during Commercial Filming

The V8-hearted California T might have marked Ferrari's turbo return back at the Geneva Motor Show 2014, but it was the V8-powered 488 GTB that gave the Prancing Horse its complete contemporary times twin-turbo aura. We've been waiting to get a real world taste of the 488 ever since it debuted in Geneva earlier this month and now we have just that on our hands.
Ferrari 488 GTB on the street 1 photo
Photo: screenshot from Youtube
An example of the 488 GTB was spotted on the streets of Italy earlier this week and, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first time such an apparition is caught on camera.

There's really no need to ask about the hue on the supercar - Ferrari couldn't allow the car to go out in the open wearing anything else than the traditional Rosso Corsa. Not when they used the drive to film a commercial.

As you'll be able to see in the video below, the 488 was preceded by a camera car. This was the usual Mercedes ML dressed in matte black and wearing all the right gear.

Alas, the 3.9-liter twin-turbo at the middle of the Ferrari couldn't express its feelings, since the driver didn't seem to be touching the throttle at the time the supercar was filmed.

We're not worried though as we're sure we'll have plenty of occasions to see the 670 PS and 760 Nm (560 lb-ft) in action soon.

We know how Maranello's engineers have worked to achieve a power delivery that gets as close to the atmospheric engine as possible in the California T, so we are very curios about how the forced feeding has changed the 458 Italia's character.

After this transformation, the obvious Ferrari-McLaren duel will be played on much closer terms - we'll remind you the Brits also enjoyed plenty of attention in Geneva with their upgraded 675LT.

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