Ferrari 456M GT - classically packaged twelve-tone music
Summary
The Ferrari 456 GT was one of the most powerful sports cars of its time. With a top speed of over 300 km/h, it was just as impressive in the car quartet as it was on the road. It was more at home on fast highway stages than on the race track, but it is said to have outperformed the Testarossa in Fiorano. In terms of price, it was comparable to a condominium back then, but today it is worth the equivalent of two new VW Golfs. A bargain then? This driving report describes the history of the nineties GT and shows it in many pictures. There is also a sound sample.
This article contains the following chapters
- Continuing a long tradition
- Completely new
- Nostalgic styling
- A true Granturismo
- From A to M
- Surprisingly inexpensive today
- Hand-tamed
Estimated reading time: 7min
Preview (beginning of the article)
There can hardly be another Ferrari with a better ratio of euros or francs to engine power these days. Yet the Ferrari 456 was once the most expensive way to take a seat in a sports car from Maranello. Enzo Ferrari had a 2+2 GT on offer early on, and the 250 GT 2+2 was produced in series from 1960. It was followed by the 330 GT, the 365 GT 2+2 and finally the 365 GT/4 together with its relatives 400/400i/412. Production was then discontinued in 1989 and there was no successor (for the time being). The fact that it took until October 1992 before the Ferrari 456 could be presented to the public at the Paris Motor Show was also due to the fact that the first variant (internally F116A) was discarded in order to switch to a transaxle design with F116B. In fact, the entire coupé was completely new, even the engine was freshly developed. It had a displacement of 5474 cm3, from which the type designation was derived by dividing by 12 (number of cylinders), as was customary at Ferrari at the time.
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