Of all the lightweight V8 Ferraris, picking a favourite is easy for me — the 430 Scuderia. It keeps most of the rawness of the 360 Challenge Stradale while implementing some of the chassis tech that wound up in the 458 Speciale like adaptive suspension and an Ediff. It’s noisy, involving, has the most snappy and visceral singleclutch paddleshift gearbox, and I’d say 503bhp is the perfect amount of power.

But this is 2024, and you can now buy a Mercedes C Class with 670bhp, so in outright numbers, the Scud has been long since left in the dust of the power race. Not this one though, because some crazy person had €60,000 of supercharger fitted, and all of a sudden, we have a Scud with more power than a 488 Pista (746bhp to be exact). But does all that power ruin what makes the Scud so great? I didn’t have to be asked twice to have a go and find out!

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