Want to hear a remastered, £595k V8 Ferrari F355 scream in a tunnel? Turn it up now

Remember that rather delightful, reimagined Ferrari F355 from 2024? It’s now ready, Brit company Evoluto confirming it has tested all the specifications it promised us a couple of years back.

Chief among which is a re-engineered version of Ferrari’s mid-mounted, 3.5-litre naturally-aspirated V8, which now makes 414bhp and 273lb ft (up from 375bhp and 268lb ft when new back in 1994).

Those gains come courtesy of new internals with less inertia, along with bespoke cams, ported heads, and a new stainless steel exhaust system with a different design. Being naturally-aspirated, you’ll be able to enjoy every single one of those 414 horsepowers right up to its 8,500rpm redline.

If you want to enjoy more, there is more. Though not quite the 500bhp, 3.9-litre monster Evoluto told TopGear.com back in 2024, there's the option of 474bhp delivered via a bored-out V8 now displacing 3.7-litres. This one redlines to 9,000rpm, too, and gets ‘extreme’ high-lift cams, more powerful fuelling and stronger internals for “sustained high-speed operation”. All of it is controlled by a new ECU.

There’s more. The track’s 77mm wider at the front, and 66mm wider at the back, accommodating brand-new upper and lower arms, uprights, and anti-roll bar drop links. Huge Brembo brakes with six-pot calipers up front and four-pots on the back. Evoluto has also redesigned some of the F355’s hard points too – the centres of the upper and lower ball joints, for example.

And where original items were no longer available, it built and produced its own, like the wheel bearings (each one 1kg lighter than before) and driveshafts. Supposed to be easier to service, too.

The company has now confirmed its suspension partner, not just for this 355, but for anything else it and partner firm Boreham Motorworks will use. (The latter is responsible for (re)doing the Mk1 Escort and RS200, don’t forget.) So the 355 now comes with three-way adjustable R53 dampers.

There’s a faster steering ratio, upgraded (but still hydraulic) power steering, and tonnes (not literally) of carbon fibre used for the redesigned cabin. A cabin devoid of any digital screens, and replete with a better HVAC system, too.

Speaking of tonnes, Evoluto is claiming a dry weight of 1,250kg – around 100kg lighter than Maranello managed back in the Nineties. Over the last year, we’re told it’s done over 5,000 miles of track tests, though Evoluto originally told TG the thing’s been engineered for a road bias.

The first of just 55 customer cars will start getting stripped down from next month, and it’ll be delivered towards the end of the year. Each car starts from £595,000 - a hundred grand cheaper than when we first saw it.

Looks good in red, no? And judging by this little short - filmed in Catesby Tunnel, the home of Top Gear's Tunnel Run - sounds pretty good too...