Sergio is a roadster car that looks to the future, extreme, compact, sporty, racy, pure and sensual. An exercise in style that Pininfarina has decided to expressing themselves on the engineering of the Ferrari 458 Spider, which keeps some elements.
An element of innovation is constituted by floats and aerodynamic headrest attached to the roll rather than the body of the seats, becoming almost elements of the exterior more than the interior. In addition to ensuring maximum purity of the lines, this solution also acts as a fairing of the heads in the rear. In front of the door panel, in a small recess of the channel, are housed the two helmets. Made on a specific design of Pininfarina in collaboration with Newmax, helmets of Sergio are personalized with the color of the exterior car.
The Pininfarina Style Centre has transformed the original car, a Ferrari 458 Spider, into this roadster car with calculations and tests in the wind tunnel of Grugliasco to optimize aerodynamic performance. In particular, has been realized a bodywork totally new, full carbon, with a weight savings of approximately 10% in relation to the bodywork original aluminum, all to the benefit of acceleration and recovery. Compared to the original car, then, have been included in light alloy wheel rims monodado by 21 , with specific design, and a hub derived from Ferrari 458 Challenge.
Overall, the Sergio offers performance of a real sports, with a shell, the torsional stiffness greater than that of the spider of origin, thanks to the reduction in the size of the doors, and with a reduction of the total mass of about 150 kg compared to the spider. This allows good handling and a further improvement of the acceleration, the value of the 0–100 km / h, even at the top of its class, is estimated to fall below 3.4 seconds.
