RE: PH Heroes: Ferrari 288GTO

[jwo]

That car is the dogs doodahs... First on my list in my fantasy garage! Stealth Wagon - cracking write up, awesome. Saw a 288gto in the flesh couple of years back, most nerds were swarming over the 360 next to it, not me...

[10 Pence Short]

nervous said:

Troy? Is that you?

I was waiting for a dab of oppo...

[Boneman]

Stealth. Thanks for sharing. This is the stuff PH needs....

Legend.

[fathomfive]

I had this over my school books:

[Farmer]

OOOOOOH yesSSSSSS

44years old this is my lotery dream too . Perfection with just the big stalky mirrors to halt your eyes as you lustily devour the shape , but I love those mirrors . as the saying goes true perfection has to have a slight imperfection to make it truely irresistable . It's a mole on Audrey Hepburns face . I'm rambling now sorry !!!

[6th Gear]

The ultimate supercar
Takes my breath away

[Davey S2]

Best looking Ferrari IMO.

I was lucky enough to be on a Ferrari owners European tour in the company of a 288 GTO (it was the car featured in the recent Octane feature).

Blasting along the Italian costal autostrada through the tunnels with one of those in your mirrors is not something you forget in a hurry.

[traffman]

At last ! One of my favorite and much admired Ferraris of all time featured in heroes.
I love the 308,328 shape and the 288 took it even further.
Achingly beautiful .
This along with a handfull of other pre 360 shape ferraris are my proper Ferrari wants.
I loved Mr stealth recollections of his , hats off for actually running one.
Oh Ferrari why dont you shape something as good as the 288 now.

[KrissJ]

Gridl0k said:

lankyarcher said:

I saw the 'Evo' chaps in the Shell garage in Bala, North Wales filling up one of these, an F40 & F50, I nearly collapsed!!

An amazing article, that one.

The Shell garage is in Betws-y-coed. You're a frickin' lucky chap seeing them there though, I bet it was amazing! They still have the photo that was taken there up in the garage now. And yes, it was a briliant article.

The 288 GTO is one of my all time favourite cars, and definitely one of the best looking too. I too had a huge poster of a 288 GTO on my wall when I was little, right next to an almost equally large one of an extremely atractive young lady working out at the gym. Well, I couldn't have just car posters...

[MattjK]

Oh my. I think I might need to go and have some private time with these pictures. The 288GTO was my first pin-up motor, and I utterly adore it. That and the 355 would be in my 10-car garage (imaginary, sadly).

[muppet42]

This is in my opinion the best the factory in Maranello have ever produced and almost certainly my favourite car of all time. It's not only utterly glorious to behold, but the sound of it, the theatre of it all...I adore it. I remember growing up I watched Magnum PI and yeah, I loved the 308 GTS. I still do and indeed consider it one of the Ferraris I may actually have a real chance of owning one day.

But the 288 is something else. It was one of those cars that I'd never really seen before, something more exotic than the exotic supercars I'd seen up to that point. Eclipsing the Testarossas, the Countachs, it stayed etched in my mind as what a car should look like. No silly wings all over the place, no massive air vents to ruin the form, just the right balance, the right shape.

As mentioned earlier in the topic, it's certainly a dream car and it's certainly one of mine. You can keep your Bugattis, Zondas and Astons, this is the one I'd write the first cheque for after a lottery win. Up there with the 365 GTS/4 and the F40, it tops even them. Wonder if selling some vital organs would come anywhere near to a deposit on one...

[fatboy69]

i was lucky enough to bring a 288gto back from the factory in 1985 - brand new & straight off the production line. awesome car to drive & took rather longer coming home than we should have done.

i remember we drove the car into a village not far from the factory on our journey home. we parked the car, locked it, walked away & watched in awe as virutally the whole town suddenly appeared from nowwhere to gaze at this awesome piece of art.

not one person touched the car - they just looked, admired, took photo's & generally enjoyed the car event hough they saw ferrari's virtually every day.

fantastic to drive & when it was parked with the engine running it just burbled & sounded fantstic. it cost £65K plus import taxes which had to paid to customs at dover before we were allowed to drive the car on uk roads.

magnificent, raw, beast of a car. & it was very, very fast. one of my favourite cars of all time - only beaten by the daytona.

[dinkel]

I wonder when Ferrari will pick up the courage to do a car like the Daytona, 288GTO . . .

[fatboy69]

i doubt that ferrari will ever again produce the likes of the 288gto, f40, f50 or the enzo simply because of the costs involved. the days of the out & out supercar have, sadly, long gone i think.

its a shame because we have some magnificent supercars over the years - not only from ferrari.

still, we can hope cant we?

[demondell]

Great looking car.
I like it a lot more than, the fine example's of other 1970's Supercars, used to film this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear_Cheap_Car_Ch...

[edit] Italian mid-engined supercars for less than a second-hand Mondeo challenge
The presenters were given £10,000 to buy a 1970s supercar, the requirements being that the car had to be mid-engined and Italian. Clarkson bought a Maserati Merak, Hammond bought a Ferrari 308 GT4 and May a Lamborghini Urraco. Various challenges included a lap of the Castle Combe Circuit and driving from Chippenham to Slough. In the end none of the cars survived the final journey, with the Merak's engine blown to bits, the 308's electrical system gone, and the Urraco's petrol tank empty with just 1 mile to go to the finishing point. No winner Series Seven, Episode Four
Ouch, money pits. LOL

Mr. J C, & I, also love the pop up lights. Ice Kool




Dell
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[Evo]

Very cool car and definately on my wish list, still got Burago model which is as close as i'll get in my lifetime to owning one. I was fortuante enough to get up close and sit in this car, development car for the F40, think there's less than four in existance.

[DJC]

And ppl wonder why I lambast modern Fezzas for being ugly, lard arsed overweight things devised for fat Americans or why I describe Sierra cossies as mediocre.

• That* is how a car should be. Its not relative, its just an absolute, the 288GTO is what cars should be like. End of story.

[VanhireBoys]

I absolutely love it .. a true balls out supercar with no crappy ABS and TC.. Just you and it... !

[disco1]

Horse_Apple said:

Only surpassed by the Miura.

Is it only me who thinks the Miura was pretty minging and totally over talked by todays press?

[Agoogy]

disco1 said:

Horse_Apple said:

Only surpassed by the Miura.

Is it only me who thinks the Miura was pretty minging and totally over talked by todays press?

no, but you can count you're buddies on one hand here I reckon...
personally I'd put the 288 over the Muira..