15 years ago, the 430 Scud was as good as Ferrari berlinettas got; there's still a lot to love today
How much is enough? For many, the answer to that question is two words and a number: Ferrari 430 Scuderia. Three years into the F430 production run Michael Schumacher unveiled it at the 2007 Frankfurt show as the successor to the brilliant and now legendary 360 Challenge Stradale. The elements that made the 430 Scuderia special weren’t so much what it had but what it didn’t have. What it did have was a naturally aspirated 4.
The 430 Scuderia was expensive generally. At £172,500 before extras it was the best part of £50k dearer than the regular 430. Fifteen years later £175,000 is still the sort of money you’ll need to stump up for a used one. That represents quite a recovery from the slump in prices in the early 2010s, but some might say that these cars are still undervalued. Five years ago prices of $300k were being confidently predicted by American YouTube experts. That’s not happened yet.
Very little goes wrong on the engine. It’s a dry sumper so it’s important to check the oil level when the engine is hot, and coolant has been known to leak, but the cam timing was by chain, so no belt-changing was required. Chains had to be checked every 70,000km and if they needed changing you’d be looking at a bill approaching £5k.
The ride height was 15mm lower than the F430’s, but any misgivings you might have had about the ride quality were dispelled by the wonders of Skyhook adaptive damping and Ferrari’s ‘magic carpet’ button on the centre console. This gave you the cushiest spring rates irrespective of what you had dialled up on the manettino switch, a nifty thing that had made its debut on the F430 in 2004. On the Scuderia it had five settings.
The overall Scuderia chassis package took the already wonderfully focused, sharp-edged 430 to a new level of deliciousness. It was not only two seconds a lap quicker around Ferrari’s Fiorano test track than the regular F430, it could also whip an Enzo around there. Even the heavier Spider 16M was half a second quicker than an F430 coupe.
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