Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Why name it 488 ?

[Steve Jenkins (steve]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Michel Savard <mysavard [at] videotron.ca> wrote:

I must be missing something. I thought it was 4.8L, 8 cyl.

Same with 458. I thought it was 4.5L, 8 cyl. I never really checked. I took it for granted that's what it was. Like the 308, 328, 348, etc.

So, why 458 and 488 ?

I immediately thought back to the 288 also being an 8 cyl turbo, and the name just seemed to make sense. :)

SteveJ