Call off the search - the Holy Grail is here
Matt BirdThe limited edition Ferrari production runs have become so important you’ll probably know exactly how many of your favourites were made. Just 349 F50s. 399 Enzos, plus one for the Pope. 599 599 GTOs . Plus, of course, churning out F40s like there was no tomorrow - all the way to 1,311.
Top marks, though, for those that know the number for the 288 GTO - a mere 272. This isn’t a GTO, however, if it wasn’t abundantly clear from the outrageous design., one of the rarest, fastest and most desirable cars ever to feature the Prancing Horse on it. Including a prototype, just six were produced. This isn’t so much automotive royalty as a four-wheeled deity.
Though exotic and adventurous for Ferrari at the time, the standard 288 GTO wasn’t going to be competitive in Group B by the mid-1980s. Which shows how mad things were. Handily, the regulations allowed for Evolution models, where just 20 had to be made and could be renewed every year.
Alas, it wasn’t to be. Group B was cancelled in May 1986, and the 230mph Evoluzione could never be raced as intended. One car of the 20 had been finished by then, so Ferrari would hardly have been blamed for cutting its losses and leaving it there. Instead, it agreed that Michelotto would build four more. So five production cars and one prototype, more than 35 years ago - that’s it.
Even more amazingly, Ferrari invited the media to drive a 288 GTO Evoluzione, despite the fact it would never race and knowing there would be so few. The launch was at Imola, and served as much as anything else to show what Ferrari was capable of at the time when it came to materials like carbon fibre and Kevlar. Lots of the learnings from the Evo would be employed for the common-as-muck F40. driven by the press back in 1987, chassis 79887.
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