Ferrari/Dino 308 GT4: the most underrated Ferrari

Posted on 13-12-2015 at 21:55 by dizono – 33 Comments”

In back to back with the best or most beautiful Ferrari’s to get the 308 GT4, never against. Completely undeserved, if you ask me and I’ll tell you why.

If I ever have the intention of a Ferrari to buy, then I may me happy with the fact that the 348 TB, 400 GT and 308 GT4 to my favorites. The are, at the Mondial after, probably the least-loved Ferrari’s. In this case, I want a lance break for the 308 GT4, as that car for multiple reason by many is dismissed as an inferior Ferrari. Not only because he started life as a Dino, but also because since the 250 GTO no straatlegale Ferrari not by Pininfarina is designed, except the 308 GT4. However, there are also lots of reasons to of the 308 GT4.

The story of the 308GT4 actually begins with the introduction of the first Dino 206 GT in 1968. After the death of Enzo’s son Dino in 1956 to carry all through his son, co-developed V6-engines, the name ‘Dino’. First are those blocks only in racing cars, a change in the regulations ensures that the engines are also approved to be street-legal car. Ferrari switches in the help of Fiat and both brands bring Dino’s with the 2.0 V6. Where Fiat’s Dino is a modern, Fiat-logos, you search for the 206 GT in vain to Ferrari logos. The story goes that Enzo Ferrari the good name of his twaalfcilinders not to pick wants to throw with a relatively affordable (and violently corroding) sports car with a V6. Also its successor, the improved Dino 246 GT never wears the prancing horse.

Ferrari decision for the next Dino to abandon the meanwhile, what outdated V6 and for the first time a achtcilinder to develop. Also like a Ferrari from the 308 GT4 is a 2+2 instead of a pure two-seater like its predecessors. According to some, gets Bertone in charge of a carriage to draw, because the contract is for a 2+2 with a transversely mounted V8 in the back so hard that they huisdesigner Pininfarina not want to do. According to others, it was Pininfarina just furious that nota bene a design studio in the same city received orders from Ferrari. However, it was eventually at Bertone active Marcello Gandini that the 308 GT4 on paper put.

Gandini, in my eyes the best autodesigner ever drew a sleek and wedge-shaped car that strongly broke with the design that we, Ferrari and the Dino’s were used. Not a classic beauty like the 246 GT or the 250 GT may be, but a nice unique design in which influences of Gandini’s Stratos and Countach are visible. In addition, it is able to back not only a V8, a place to give, but also have some space for two small seats and a luggage compartment.

If you are the coach of the 308 GT4 still not able to appreciate, step in. Not only do you have the thin window pillars, and the low nose a perfect view on the road, do you look at one of the most beautiful dashboards that Ferrari ever in a car screwed. The instruments are mounted in three aluminum panels that are artfully in an arc behind the beautiful slender steering wheel to bend. Switch comes with the classic Ferrari-poker with the well-known chrome shifting pattern.

With that classic poker and a trio of pedals are you the boss about a 2927 cc measuring V8, thanks to four Webers good for 255 hp and an insanely good sound. Specially for the Italian market, where cars with an engine capacity of more than two litres twice as much VAT should be paid for, develops, Ferrari a 1991 cc-measuring variant of that block. One of the smallest V8 ” and ever in a production car delivered and good for a meager 170 horsepower.

As stated before, the 308 GT4 in 1973 on the market as a Dino. In 1975, introduces Ferrari the technically highly related 308 GTB, with a Pininfarina-designed carriage (which in the first instance, of glass fiber is, the now very sought after ‘Vetroresina’), and only two seats. Now the Ferrari logo is no longer reserved for street-legal car with twelve cylinders, should also be with the Dino 308 GT4 within a short time, the famous logo. In may 1976 is the day, and get the car finally the logos that it deserves.

Gallery: Ferrari / Dino 308-GT4

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