The car seams to be in very good condition. Congrats! :)
Luipy Great looking car. Just the same colour combo as mine. Have fun. Its a real race car for the road.........
Amazing car. The 348 is something that just gets under your skin. The more you drive it, the more you will love it.
.....and nice to see the black lower panels, so right and exactly how it should be (for its year and model).
Congrats! I always liked the 348 specially when the bottom panels are painted to match the color. Something to consider. Nevertheless, she is a beauty.
That is my perfect 348. Congratulations. If I had my way, every 348 that came with black lower panels from the family would stay that way.
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I have a 308GTS, but have always loved the 348. Anyone here that owns a 348 who can give me thoughts about why I should/should not sell my 308 and buy a 348?
The 348 is an incredibly underrated car and is a classic example of the design thinking of the late 80's/ early 90's (along with the Testarossa). The problem is, not everyone gets the thinking at the time (by that I mean how designs were very much "in your face" and "showy", and for some, the 348 is over-styled with its side strakes and grille across the rear lights. Dare I say, for some people, the 348 is trying a bit too hard to stand out. To those of us who lived through that period, we get it, and the majority of us have happy memories of it, but to those who didn't live through it (and for some who did), the whole era appears to be a bit of a fad, and a lot of the designs from that period appear to be just too showy, basically lacking subtlety. Ferrari were very clever when they came up with the 348's replacement - the 355. They realised that the basic shape and proportions of the 348 were fine (maybe not as pretty as the 328 that preceded it, but it could hold it's own against rivals designs of the time), so basically they just made the overall package a bit more subtle than the 348, and "Hey presto!", suddenly the 355 was instantly hailed as a classic Ferrari design and so much better looking than the 348 (completely ignoring the fact that bodily at least, they were pretty much the exact same car! [Hence it's not that hard to make the 348 look just like a 355] ). The 3*8 GTB/GTS design on the other hand has subtlety down to perfection and is a definitive Ferrari for a whole generation (like it or not, helped massively by being in Magnum P.I). The design is aesthetically perfect, from the overall shape to the proportions, and the car drives as good as it looks (it's ergonomic design is slightly flawed but when you're that pretty, it's easy to get forgiveness for not being totally perfect). In summary, whilst the 348 is a design classic of the 80's/90's, the 3*8 GTB/GTS is one of Ferrari's design classics of all time, right up there with the 250 GTO, the 250 SWB, the 275 GTB, the Daytona, the 246 et al.
