{"id":82154,"date":"2014-09-24T13:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=82154"},"modified":"2014-09-24T15:43:17","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T19:43:17","slug":"ferrari-458-recalled-for-faulty-truck-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2014\/09\/ferrari-458-recalled-for-faulty-truck-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari 458 Recalled for Faulty Trunk Release"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Ferrari 458 Spider as well as the 458 Italia are being recalled for faulty trunk latches.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For those who have been looking to play hide-and-seek in the trunk of pricey Italian sports cars, there is some good news if their car of choice is the Ferrari 458 Italia and 458 Spider: they\u2019re being recalled in the U.S. because safety regulators have figured that the internal trunk releases don\u2019t work properly.<\/p>\n

Hiders can now get in and out of the trunk on their own.<\/p>\n

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The 458 Italia starts at about $230,000 and the Spider at $250,000.<\/p>\n

The Italian automaker\u2019s North American unit is recalling about 3,000 of the vehicles built between March 2010 and May 2014. The secondary release latch for the trunk, which is located in the front of the car, is defective and doesn\u2019t release when the car is stationary.<\/p>\n

However, it does work while the car is in motion, which presents a different set of problems. Since it\u2019s a Ferrari we\u2019re talking about here, it\u2019s probably moving at a high rate of speed as well. Both vehicles boast 570 horsepower engines.<\/p>\n

On a serious note, U.S. safety regulations, there must be a way to open the trunk of a car from the inside, which prevents anyone \u2013 children, in particular \u2013 from getting trapped inside.<\/p>\n

(Marchionne plans to increase Ferrari production. For more, <\/em><\/strong>Click Here<\/a><\/span><\/strong>.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The problem in this case is that car hoods have two latches to ensure the hood doesn\u2019t come flying off in the event one fails while the vehicle is moving.\u00a0 Ferrari\u2019s trunk in the front, if you will, is set up the same way.<\/p>\n

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Ferrari is letting owners know and dealers will fix the vehicles at no cost to the owner. The recall is expected to begin at the end of September 2014.<\/p>\n

(To see more about Mercedes and its high performance AMG C63, <\/em><\/strong>Click Here<\/a><\/span><\/strong>.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The 458 Speciale, a track-oriented high-performance version of the car, is not part of the recall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kidnappers with expensive tastes in getaway vehicles have just gotten some bad news if their car of choice is the Ferrari 458 Italia and 458 Spider: they\u2019re being recalled in the U.S. because safety regulators have figured that the internal trunk releases don\u2019t work properly. The recall will begin at the end of September. For more, go to TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4389,"featured_media":41795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[151],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82154"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=82154"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=82154"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=82154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}