Ugly duckling.

So what is it and whats the year?
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looks like a mod'd pontiac fiero (hopefully not a real f car )

 

Might have been a factory mule..

 

maybe a prototype BB or Testarossa

 

I would say a 348 prototype. Year? Around 1987 I think.
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My bet is a 1985 Pontiac Fiero.

 

part of the same family?
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You are the man Robbe.

 

Looking a bit more like it here but yes.

 

Great. Let's do another one!

 

Front end looks like Mondial T. I recall seeing that photo in Auto Week many years ago but I don't remember what was said about it.

 

I would bet it's a fiero kit

 

Still an ugly duckling, nothing's changed in nearly 30 years.
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Ain't nothing ugly about that duckling, Pap! It's a beauty and always has been. Love that car.

 

Cheers mate.
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Don't know and don't care

 

It's an early 348 prototype (late '87/early '88), that was crudely disguised to look like a Testarossa upgrade, using a 3.2 Mondial front lower panel, a Testarossa single mirror, and crude, fake Testarossa rear wing/rear end mouldings.



The: "part of the same family?" car posted by Robbe, was a 1990 348 test car that was fitted with a 3.4 twin turbo V8.

The idea was that the 3.4 twin turbo engine would be a top of the range 348 for the rest of the world, and a 2.0 twin turbo V8 would be fitted for the Italian market.

Ferrari abandoned the project fairly early on as it's performance was seen as being a threat to Testarossa sales (the last thing Ferrari wanted was to have customers buying their top of the range car being outrun easily by owners in the "lesser" model).