Ferrari F430

Among the 352 Ferrari entries in the MotorJury library, the Ferrari F430 holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 2004. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Ferrari F430 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Suzuki Motor Corporation Suzuki Swift, the Ford Ford Mustang, the Chrysler Chrysler 300 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Ferrari F430 reads like this: the record lists its engine as 4.3 L Ferrari F136 E V8; quoted output is F430 & Spider: 490 PS / 430 Scuderia & Scuderia Spider 16M: 510 PS; kerb weight is recorded at 3344 lb / 3460 lb (Spider) / 3300 lb (Scuderia Spider 16M) / 3150 lb (Scuderia); drive goes through 6-speed Manual transmission / manual / 6-speed Graziano Trasmissioni / Graziano 'F1' Electrohydraulic manual transmission / automated manual; the layout is Longitudinal, Rear mid-engine, rear-wheel drive. Worked together, those figures give roughly 129 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Ferrari story

Within Ferrari's own catalogue the Ferrari F430 sits alongside the 250 GTE, the 328 GTS, the 348 TS, the 360 Modena. The record names the Ferrari 360 as its predecessor and the Ferrari 458 as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Frank Stephenson in collaboration with Pininfarina. Assembly is recorded at Italy: Maranello.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Ferrari F430 was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.