When you own one of the most desirable cars in the world, offers to buy come with the regularity of trainsOne of Ferrari's greatest strengths was its ability to produce highly specialized niche products. The factory's artisans could tailor an au...
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Subdued styling kept values among the lowest of V12 Ferraris; they wereentry-level cars priced about the same as a 250 GTE or a 250 PF coupeAt the 1956 Geneva Motor Show, Pinin Farina unveiled a prototype built on a 250 Europa GT chassis. The ne...
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This car's association with Rob Walker is probably more hype than provenance, but for me it's enough to want it in my garageWhen the new 250 Gran Tursimo was launched at the 1954 Paris Salon it was described as the first standard series producti...
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If you can't afford a nice example, you really can't afford a bad oneBy the end of the 1950s, the success of rivals Aston Martin and Maserati in providing Grand Touring cars for the enthusiast with a family meant that Ferrari could no longer ign...
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Shadlun's shop was a perverted museum of the most beautiful automobiles, all of them crippled by wreckage, fire or simple neglectIn the early 1950s Enzo Ferrari began to manufacture road-going Grand Tourismo cars. The 250 Europa and 375 America...
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A serious, high-speed missile which rewards the serious pilot and frustrates the casual driverThe all-new 365 GT4 BB appeared on the world stage at the 1971 Turin Motor Show and received a rapturous reception. Of monocoque/tubular steel construc...
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Even if we put Dirty Harry's star power aside, we're looking at a $400k price tag, more than a 75-percent jump in price since 2003Perhaps no car better epitomizes classic Ferrari design than the 275 GTB. Penetrative nose, long bonnet, low cabin ...
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If Sirus paid a typical 1970 price, he probably paid under $10k for the car-and his selling price in January 1988 was $375,000. But it gets even betterInitially conceived as a gran turisimo, Ferrari's 250 soon diverged into two paths, the GT cou...
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Playing with the F40 in our 70-mph society is like going deer hunting with a rocket launcherIntroduced in 1988 to celebrate Enzo Ferrari's 40 years as a carmaker, the F40 was the last car with a design personally approved by the great man himsel...
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I was the one who sold 308 GT4 S/N 10540 for $23,500 back in 1990Ferrari's family of immensely successful V8 road cars began in 1973 with the 308 GT4. The Maranello factory's first V8-engined road car and first mid-engine 2+2, the 308 GT4 was st...
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It lacks reasonable weatherproofing, rusts easily, and has a chassis that is way too flexible, but the California Spyder proves that people will always buy beauty and performance over practicalityConvincing Enzo Ferrari to produce an open versio...
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The GTB/GTB4 has catapulted in value over the past 18 months and dragged the GTS along with itFerrari introduced the 275 GTS at the October 1964 Paris show alongside its sibling, the 275 GTB. The two shared the same chassis and driveline, althou...
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Once described in a magazine as the world's most beautiful Ferrari, the 212 was somewhat unfairly known in my neck of the woods as the world's ugliestWhatever the chosen medium, artists' earliest works are always among their most desired and so...
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Above 4,000 rpm you get the feeling that the GTB/C may really go after all, and at 5,000, the car tries to throw you out the back windowThis immensely desirable and highly usable Ferrari 275 GTB/C is the third of only 12 such Berlinetta Competiz...
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The 308 was what customers told Ferrari they wanted, the Daytona was what Ferrari thought the customers wanted, but the 275 Berlinettas were what he, the man, wantedThe 275 GTB has stood the test of time as well as any design in Ferrari history....
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