Ferrari has built a rich line of thrilling road racers with its ‘special series’ V8s. From Competizione to Pista, we drive them all -
the game. And that’s how a very special 348 came to be overlooked.
Inside is a pair of F40 carbon-Kevlar buckets trimmed in red, fire-retardant cloth. Ferrari claimed a dry weight of 1180kg, around 200kg lighter than the standard car. That may have been true of the bare racing version, but this car has most of the trim of the standard 348 GTB. Seats apart, the most obvious difference is the numbered plaque in the centre of the steering wheel, inscribed here with ‘38/50’.
At speed the steering is a little woolly about the straight ahead, but at all other times it’s precise, nicely weighted and full of feedback. And one of the things it tells you is that this chassis is beautifully sorted. There’s no slack in its responses; you turn, the nose tucks for the apex and the back end is right there, not free of inertia but that inertia is controlled, contained… and exploitable. There’s one lovely sequence where the road pops over a crest and dives left, then right.
About a quarter of the 1288 customers shelled out on the stripe, and although I loved it as an identifier at the time, I think John Hanlon’s plain red CS looks fantastic; there’s absolutely no chance of mistaking it for a vanilla Modena. Push the big red starter button and the V8 catches and idles busily at your back, bassier than the 348 and busier-sounding too, sending a fizz through the floorpan.
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