Who wants a new 288 GTO?

I think Ferrari would be hurting itself if it went retro. Ford needed to go retro - because they didn't have a built in audience for a high end exotic with the exception of those that remembered the gt40. Lamborghini got no love for the Miura redo and the Miura is much higher up in the pantheon of exotics than the 288gto.

Maybe a few styling cues here and there- would be cool. I like the mirrors

 

Id buy one ...but thats my favorite car of all time and its unlikely Ill ever get a real one.

One day I may buy one of the really well done kits that are stretched to look right.

 

There was no continuation past the Ford GT-40 until the new Ford GT became a world class automobile today. The 288 GTO was awesome 22 years ago, but Ferrari has made several advances since then. Are you advocating putting a 430 engine and an F-1 transmission in a 308 body? Just do it. The parts are available. If Ferrari were to offer to build in the factory, a true copy of any car it had originally built to its original specifications, that would be different.

 

yes, i love the 288.

as well, i wouldn't mind an updated variant of the GTO that has obvious heritage cues from it's prior GTO incarnations.

for the classic 288 GTO the real one of course is best. or i'd get a well-done 308 rebody. the more i think about pulling the trigger on a sorted 308 the more i entertain going the rebody route. i answered to this extensively in another thread recently.

 

I think Pininfarina would try to talk Ferrari out of it. They generally like to look forward not back.

-F

 

that move would maybe, perhaps, rekindle or embolden the 308-to-288 rebody aftermarket, with an upsurge of sacrificial 308s being rent asunder.

i'm not saying that is good nor bad, but would affect the market.

 

well the 308 looks fine as it is.

but then again the 288 is super fine.

a Miura-like encore performance for the 288 i think would sell like hotcakes, honestly. especially if they limited the production as in in the original. it would be sold out before it went on sale. there are just as many non-purists out there who would line up right away to buy them as there are naysayers.

there would be a good population of ferraristi that would adamantly abhor the 288 recreation straight away, decrying it as a sell-out principle of impurity despite it being OEM.

 

^^^wow that is a powerful image

 

Any more?

 

I had a dream once that it was going to happen. But then I woke up.


It is never, ever going to happen.


They are beautiful cars though aren't they.

 

Not actually a fan of retro cars, but classic cars are fun to modernize on PS, so...

TADAA!! Presenting 288m GTO 2007 ! (photoshop pic)

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/1434/288mgto2007ek6.jpg

 

that photochop looks great.

never say never.

 

I would love it. I couldn't afford one, but I would enjoy reading about it and looking at it. Ferrari has not built a car I have lusted after in a long time and this would certainly change things.

 

i guess the side mirrors need to be mounted on long stilts to see beyond the undulating contours of the car's rear. the seven foot tall side mirrors of the 288 are the only things i don't much like. otherwise it's a perfect design for a sports car.

 

werent they a styling cue back to the sports racers of late 60's early 70's ?

not what i heard - a lot of people liked the "new" miura. and lamborghini received alot of encouragement to put it into production.

 

dunno. they don't break the design. i just noticed they're really high. higher than i remembered them being.

 

That looks fantastic Nicke. I wonder if it interprets to a model well. It looks more angular and intense or modern but I wonder if it would be an improvement.

Oh heck. I want one anyway. I'm going back to get another look.

Wouldn't it be fun (and expensive) to rebody a rolled car.

 

That's absolutely correct. Ferrari has no need to redo the past because they still are in the present. Ford had no modern supercar, so the reiteration of the GT40 made sense (and it didn't hurt that the car was one of the best looking race cars ever...)

I think people forget the reason that Ferrari exists (which is what makes it different and special): racing. The road cars are just to fund the F1 team, period.

Also, old cars drive differently that modern cars. The experience is sooo different. I have fallen in love with my 512 because of that. In fact, I recently drove (for the first time) a very nice 360. I would never trade, the experience is totally different.

What I am getting at is the 288 GTO can NEVER be replicated. It can be updated, and the most recent iteration is the Enzo.

 

Put that in CF panels, on a 360/430 chassis, keeping the center section and most of the interior, and I'd be in - in a heartbeat. I've thought about exactly that on occasion, lately. Even on a 355 chassis, it would be worth the trouble, and closer in proportion to the original 288, which I've thought about even more.