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Love it and own it...although it is only 12 inches long and parks on my desk...
This is my favorite "modern" Ferrari and the only model that beats it is the vintage 250 GT Lusso in my opinion. This is when Ferrari still produced pure driver's cars with style, flare and grace rather than the look at me models of the current era. This would be a complete dream to own!
The Dino is absolutely a phenomenal car, but alas I prefer my Ferrari's in V8 or V12 variants not V6 - just a matter of preference for me!
Now if someone were looking to daily drive a Ferrari then V6 would probably be the better choice to be fair.
When I told my mechanic I want to daily drive my car, he laughed at me, I heard they are more reliable now
I have a few acquaintances who do own vintage sports cars...V6 is not bad to daily drive if you can do some maintenance items yourself.
V8/V12 vintage sports cars and daily drive are dangerous terms unless you relish spending country club dues on monthly service costs.
One of my all-time favorites.
308/328
Testarossa
930 Turbo
followed by the 'hot hatch' gang aka 205/Golf2/Clio Williams ....
Bim
A friend had a 308 GTSi qv.
Amazing design. Sex on wheels in person.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe the GTBs are rarer and trade at a premium to their targa-topped brethren. Something about that fixed roof… 😎
Have you seen this 355 restomod by Evoluto???
It's orders of magnitude more attractive to me than 99% of what Ferrari makes today....
Something has been lost since this era
It's not performance, which is now terrifying. It's not usability, which is superior today. And it's not comfort, which is now highly cultivated. Honestly, its the lack of **restraint** in the design of today's Ferrari cars. Aside from the rare beauty of the Roma/Amalfi, today's Ferraris look almost tortured and tailor made for attention-obsessed reality TV stars and social media moguls. Most of the shapes produced by Ferrari's now in-house design teams are extreme by choice but less beautiful as a result.
My sincere apologies to people who enjoy them, but each successive generation of modern Ferrari seems more desperate than the last to become something akin to an 80s Lamborghini reimagined by ChatGPT. That worked in 1985 because Lambo built so few cars, and they had 6,500-mile warranties to disillusion anyone foolish enough to buy one to drive rather than park on Rodeo. An F40 could be excused for extremity because it was a performance flagship, not the median Ferrari. Now every Ferrari is the F40 in a sense.
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I totally agree. And we could add the fact that driving a vintage car, lighter than all moderns, without all these electronic things, gives you a totally different feeling.
With a few modern exceptions... The Catheram Super 7, the Lotus Elise, the Alpine A110, the Alfa 4C...
This is true
All of them are rare experiences today. Perhaps a Mazda MX-5 can join this list at a lower price point. An early 2000s Cayman S also is a great drive with a manual transmission, but even then, we're looking back two decades to seek the elusive qualities of driver engagement and light weight.
Best Regards,
Tim
Best Regards,
Tim