I just purchased a Motor Trend magazine from November 1981 and thought you guys would want to see some of the specs. It is interesting to see this as it looks like the same car and very similar article to the Road and Track article at that same time. http://alexachua.com/rt_1981.pdf Image Unavailable, Please Login
Rats the jpg is very small, I'll see if I can pdf it later. What is interesting is in Road & Track 0-60 is 9.4, in Motor Trend it is 8.2
Here you go... http://alexachua.com/1981_mt.pdf Plus I have I think every article ever published about Mondials here: Resources | Ferrari Mondial t Enjoy my brothers...
I think you'll love this too... http://www.alexachua.com/stats_mondial.pdf I need to update it though...
My contribution to Wiki: "A common misconception of the Mondial 8 is it was a poor performer. The three major US automotive publications (MotorTrend, Car & Driver, and Road & Track) all published reviews in the fall of 1981. Road & Track and Car & Driver yielded disappointing performance results. Road & Track's reported a faulty shifter which contributed to the poor showing.[2] Car & Driver received a pre-production model which may have contributed to poor performance.[3] MotorTrend's review was much more favorable and had performance on par with the 308 GTBi/GTSi and Porsche 928. There was never any definitive conclusion on the performance disparity, Automobile magazine had suggested not being broken in as being the culprit of their observed 0-60 time.[4] (as the MotorTrend review had a fully broken in sample.)" MotorTrend's reported "The Mondial is a wink or two slower than the 308...1/4 mile in the low 16s terminal speeds favor the 308 by 2 MPH", and concluded "The Mondial is not the greatest Ferrari ever issued by Maranello, but it is by no means the least". Image Unavailable, Please Login
Pathetic era for automobiles. Sad. Pathetic, and expensive as well. Mondial 8 for modern dollars $167,000? And a 1/4 mile time of 16.2. My head is spinning.......
True, but much better than my car of the era... 1980 VW Rabbit (Golf) 4 SP Diesel 0-60 mph 21.2 Quarter mile 21.9 Top Speed I only got it to about 83 MPH At 48 horsepower...
I know!!!! Crazy huh!!?? But that's what people don't understand about these cars - they were on par for the time. So much asshattery with people saying the Mondial 8 was a dog...compared to *what* at the time??? Really the only car that ran circles around all of em' was the 911 we see history repeating with the California...can't please them all...
