Mondial nomenclature

Had Ferrari had gone with an alternate naming style like the 308 GT4 2+2 would it have been the 308 GT2+2 and 328 GT2+2 with a 3.4 tossed in later in the t or would they have even called the Mondial t a 348 GT2+2? By now giving the Mondial its own distinctive name was the correct thing to do in my opinion for what it's worth. This is just musing.

 

sounds about right to me, all this GT4 2+2 etc is too much like a Jap import where there are more letters and numbers than CC's !

 

I don't know? All the best cars have numbers instead of names.

 

Like the Enzo & Testarossa, for instance? (just had to bust your chops a little) (I would've said "Daytona" but we all know that is really the 365 GTB)

 

I don't think so....sort of. I half-way agree with you. The 308 GT4 went with the 76-79 year 308s, but I've never really heard anybody call it (formally) a "308 GT4 2+2." Two-plus-two, to me, just describes the seating - 308 GT4 is the name.

So....by that logic, perhaps they would've been the 308 GT4i (80-82) and 308 GT4 QV, 328 GT4, and 348 GT4.

 

Using previous standard Ferrari practice the Mondial might have been a 308 GTC/4 and 328 GTC/4

 

The "GT4 2+2" was reserved for the big V12 4 seater.

 

One thing that people often goof on is the "4" in GT4. It means 4 cams, not 4 people!

Birdman

 

The 4 pops up in reference to cam numbers in the 365 GT4 BB, the 365 GTC/4, the 365 GT4 2+2, the 365 GTB/4, the 365 GTS/4, the 275 GTB/4 and the 275 GTS/4 NART.

 

I know that was true for the 12-cylinder cars, but I have a feeling that in the case of the 308, it probably did stand for the seating capacity, to distinguish it from the 2-seaters that were to follow.

 

I looked in all my 308 books for an answer on that and didn't find one. I have always assumed that since the GT4 was using a naming scheme that had always been used in the past to denote 4 cams, they stuck with it. Typically GTB is always used in 2 seater berlinettas (not 4 seater I don't think) and GTS has always been used in 2 seater spiders, so if you make a 4 seater and you don't want to use GTB or GTS, you revert to the old GT4. But who knows, you could be right!

At least in all models before the 308 GT4 (to my knowledge) any Ferrari that used GT4 in the name refered to the camshafts, not the seats.

Any experts want to take a whack at this? Where is Marcel Massini when you need him?

Birdman