Ferrari 308: The First Turbo Ferrari Was a Tax Dodge Ask any enthusiast which was the first turbocharged Ferrari road car and you will get the 288 GTO of 1984. They will say it with confidence, because it is what gets repeated everywhere. It is wrong. The first one arrived two years earlier, displaced two … Read more
Lancia Beta Montecarlo: the car that changed brand three times before it existed Some cars are born with a clear identity from the first CAD sketch. They know what they’re going to be, which brand they belong to, which segment they target. Everything after that is just execution. And then there are cars like the … Read more
Ferrari F40: The Car That Was Born So Five Prototypes Wouldn’t End Up In The Scrapyard Everything you’ve been told about the origin of the Ferrari F40 is half-true. That it was Enzo’s gift to celebrate forty years of the factory. That it was the answer to Porsche and the 959. That it was the … Read more
Ferrari 288 GTO and Evoluzione: The Last Ferrari Designed To Win Races That Never Raced There’s a room in Maranello’s engine department where a Ferrari is parked that shouldn’t exist. It has no licence plate. It has no race category. It has no calendar. It’s been sitting there for nearly forty years, preserved by the … Read more
