A New Home to My Italia
Since my old, long and multi-post story 458 thread had been gone to trash, I open a new one:
Here is a little update of my car, It has been 3,5 years since I delivered it in October, 2012.
The car is at 15.400 km. After many track days, my ccm rotors have been shot, again. I burned the yellow color of my calipers, especially the rears.
So I decided to repaint my calipers and while doing it, decided to change it is yellow color to gold.
I also re-furbished all of my 4 ccm rotors, second time and install a new set of pagid rsc1, front & rear.
I changed the rear wheel hubs, because they lost their strength because of my track driving. Also changed my power steering pump. Finally repaint my OEM wheels and put them back with titanium wheel bolts. Furthermore, I updated my ECU & TCU with the latest Ferrari software. The latest update should be for Euro5b exhaust emission, like Speciale because after the software update, 200cell HJS sport cats triggered the check engine light which was non-existent with the previous software. The shifts, especially the downshifts are changed significantly; much firmer now. I put back my OEM cats and un-installed 200 cell HJS cats.
Here are a few pictures:
Heat Burned rear yellow calipers:
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458 italia 
What are the advantage of having the car register in Germany ?
I also WISH to have a Speciale BUT the prices are too high. The list price of my car was 189k euro (without VAT) back in 2012. The list price of a Speciale I would have bought with the right options (only parking sensor, 4 point harness, painted calipers, alcantara mid. tunnel, auto dimming mirrors etc) was around 204-205k euro (without VAT), back in 2014. So with a 15k euro extra (which I already spent on BMC airbox, excessive brake wear etc.), I could have bought a Speciale IF I waited for the car 2 years more. Now the price difference is roughly 100k euro which I find unreasonable. 
