Red Ferrari 488 GTB seen from a tight front three-quarter angle

Rosso Corsa

Red Ferrari 488

Six hundred and sixty-one horsepower, two seats and a colour that has meant exactly one thing since 1947.

Rental in Los Angeles · from $1,999

Nobody rents a Ferrari because it is the sensible way across town. That is the entire appeal and everyone involved knows it.

The 488 GTB is the last Ferrari to look like the ones on the posters and the first to turbocharge them — a 3.9-litre V8 behind your shoulders, sixty in three seconds flat, and a top speed you will never legally find out about. In Rosso Corsa, because there was never another option.

Specification

Horsepower
661
0–60 mph
3s
Top speed
205mph
Seats
2

3.9L twin-turbo V8 · RWD

Rear view of the red Ferrari 488 GTB with round tail lights and quad exhausts
01Two round lights and a diffuser. Everyone in Los Angeles recognises this view, and almost nobody sees it for long.

The turbochargers were the controversy — a naturally aspirated Ferrari screams to nine thousand, and the purists said the 488 would not. Then it arrived making a hundred more horsepower than the car it replaced, with throttle response engineered so carefully that Ferrari published papers about it, and the argument quietly stopped.

What that means on a canyon road is that the car is never waiting. Sixty arrives in three seconds, the gearbox takes eight hundredths to change, and the steering answers the moment you ask. Twenty minutes in, nobody wants to give the keys back.

Every other car here is a statement.
This one is a sound.

Steering wheel of the Ferrari 488 GTB with the prancing horse and manettino dial
Carbon fibre centre tunnel of the Ferrari 488 with the red launch lever

02Every control that matters is on the wheel — indicators, wipers, the manettino — because Ferrari decided your hands should never leave it. The tunnel beside you is bare carbon and one red lever.

Two-seat cabin of the Ferrari 488 GTB in black leather with red stitching
03Two seats, no pretence of anything else, and a driving position that puts your hips about a foot off the tarmac.
The 3.9-litre twin-turbo V8 of the Ferrari 488 under glass
488 GTB badge on the dashboard of the Ferrari

04Red crackle-finish manifolds under a glass cover, lit like an exhibit. Ferrari puts the engine where you can see it because it is the reason you are here.

The particulars

  • Rate$1,999 / day
  • SeatsTwo, and that is the point
  • DeliveryComplimentary to Beverly Hills partner hotels
  • In the fleetOne, in Rosso
  • Maker's pageFerrari's page for the 488

The guest book

  • Nizo car rental has such an awesome selection of cars and the service is fantastic! Very responsive! Cars are clean. Will come back for sure! Thank you guys!

    Yana K. · July 2026

  • Perfect 5 star ⭐️ experience! Car was amazing, the team was responsive and super professional and friendly. Awesome!

    Brigham Gerritt F. · September 2025

  • Fantastic experience overall — excellent communication, a great car, and a smooth check-in and check-out process. I’d absolutely book with this exotic car rental again!

    Abdullah A. · July 2025

Queries

Where can I rent a Ferrari 488 in Los Angeles?
Nizo Luxury rents the Ferrari 488 in Los Angeles — +1 (424) 303-6496. It is $1,999 a day; we bring it to your hotel or your home, or you collect it at no charge from our office on Robertson Boulevard.
How much does it cost to rent a Ferrari 488 in Los Angeles?
The 488 GTB is $1,999 a day, and the day rate is the whole of it — this car carries no weekly or monthly block, so a longer booking is priced day by day. Delivery to our Beverly Hills partner hotels is complimentary; LAX is $150 both ways with the car in the airport parking structure or $300 both ways to the terminal, half that for one direction.
Is this the 488 Spider or the GTB?
The GTB, and the two get mixed up constantly. Ferrari built the 488 in two bodies on the same running gear: the GTB is the fixed-roof berlinetta, the Spider is the folding hardtop. Same 3.9-litre twin-turbo V8 behind the seats, same 661 horsepower, same three seconds to sixty — the Spider carries the roof mechanism and a little more weight, the GTB carries the shape people picture when they picture a Ferrari. Ours is the GTB, in Rosso, and the badge on the dashboard says so. If you were searching for the Spider because you wanted the roof down, the open cars in this fleet are the Rolls-Royce Dawn, the Porsche Boxster, the Huracán Spider and the BMW 430i.
Is it usable on normal Los Angeles roads?
More than its numbers suggest. The suspension has a bumpy-road mode that softens everything at the touch of the wheel, and there is a nose lift for driveways. Canyon roads are where it makes sense, but it will do Beverly Hills at walking pace without complaint.
How far ahead should I book it?
There is one 488 in the fleet and it is the car people book for a specific weekend. Name the date early and it is held for you.

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Give us the date and the address. The 488 arrives hand-detailed at the hour you name — Mulholland is twenty minutes from most of Los Angeles.

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The terms, before you commit

Refundable deposit
$2,000
A hold, not a charge, and released 5–7 business days after a clean return, longer only if there is damage to price.
Protection plan
$225 a day
Priced off the deposit rather than the rate. Your own qualifying full-coverage policy takes this line out of the quote entirely.
Driver, 21–24
$175 a day
Twenty-one is the floor, with a licence held two years. The higher band applies at or above a $1,500 deposit; this car is in it.
Shortest booking
24 hours
No maximum. Delivery is complimentary at our Robertson Boulevard lot and our four Beverly Hills partner hotels; LAX is $150 both ways with the car in the airport parking structure or $300 both ways to the terminal, half that for one direction.

This one is the same rate at every length — it carries no multi-day block, so three days is three times one day.

Renting the Ferrari 488: the short answers

Can I book the Ferrari 488 with a driver?
Yes. A chauffeur is from $100 an hour on a two-hour minimum, added to the car at its day rate — $2,399 for a four-hour evening in this car. No security deposit is taken on a chauffeured booking. The same car can be driven to the event and yours with the keys the morning after; the chauffeur service page has the runs and the hours.
What do I need to rent the Ferrari 488, and can international guests book?
A driver of 21 or over with a licence held at least two years — between 21 and 24 a young-driver fee of $175 a day applies on this car, and under 21 is considered case by case. A major credit card in the primary renter's name for the refundable hold, and cover for the car: your own full-coverage policy if it extends to a rental, or our Protection plan arranged with the booking. International guests rent on a passport and a home-country licence; no International Driving Permit is needed. The hold is released 5–7 business days after a clean return, longer only if there is damage to price. If the age floor or the cover is the thing in the way, the same car goes out with a driver instead — that booking asks neither of you.
Can the Ferrari 488 be delivered to my hotel, my home or LAX?
Yes. Delivery is complimentary to the Beverly Wilshire, the Four Seasons at Doheny, L’Ermitage and the Maybourne, and collection from our Robertson Boulevard office costs nothing. LAX is $150 both ways with the car in the airport parking structure or $300 both ways to the terminal, half that for one direction. Any other address is priced by distance from the office, $75 one way inside 10 miles, and itemised on the quote before you pay.
How many miles are included, and can I take the Ferrari 488 out of California?
Every car carries its own daily mileage allowance, and yours arrives in writing with the booking confirmation, together with the per-mile rate for anything over it. The car may leave the state — Las Vegas, Arizona, up the coast — as long as you tell us the plan in advance and keep the allowance in mind; it comes home to Los Angeles, since there is no one-way drop in another city.
What does a weekend in the Ferrari 488 cost, and can I rent it by the hour?
$3,998 for two days and $5,997 for three, before the Protection plan, tax and any delivery — there is no separate weekend rate, and one day is the minimum on a Saturday too. The day is the shortest self-drive booking; by the hour, the car goes out with a driver, from $100 an hour on a two-hour minimum.

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