We recently told you about a report from German car magazine Auto Motor und Sport saying that Ferrari is planning to hold the world premiere of the open-top 458 Italia Spider at next month’s 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show.

While the report stated that the Spider would get a “soft top”, Darren from Teamspeed came in contact with Carscoop and told us that the Italian exotic will definitely feature a retractable hardtop and that they have seen the car “first hand”.

Well, it won’t be long before we find out, but in the meantime, scroll down to check out the artist renderings of the 458 Italia Spider.

Via Teamspeed

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