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‎Cool cars

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‎Cool cars: new section

MJBurrage: /* Ferrari 308s */

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‎Ferrari 308s

MJBurrage: /* Ferrari 308s */

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‎Ferrari 308s

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 == Cool cars ==
+* 2009–2010 Airstream PanAmerica, 34′7″ long, 8′5″ wide
 * {{cite |date=2014-06-09 |last=Collins |first=Andrew P. |work=Jalopnik |title=The Oral History of an Amazing 1930 Ford Model A Off-Road Mail Truck |url=https://jalopnik.com/the-oral-history-of-an-amazing-1930-ford-model-a-off-ro-1588212852}}
 * {{cite |date=2017-11-22 |last=Esterdahl |first=Tim |work=Automobile |title=Legacy Classic Trucks Dodge Power Wagon Defines Custom Off-Road Badassery: Idaho-based builder brings modern conveniences to post-war rigs |url=https://www.automobilemag.com/news/legacy-classic-trucks-dodge-power-wagon-defines-custom-off-road-badassery/}}

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	* {{cite \|date=2013-07-02 \|last=Lamm \|first=John \|work=Car and Driver \|title=Italdesign Giugiaro Parcour Concept: Want a hybrid? How about mixing a Gallardo with an SUV? \|url=https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a15114709/italdesign-giugiaro-parcour-concept-first-drive-review/}}		* {{cite \|date=2013-07-02 \|last=Lamm \|first=John \|work=Car and Driver \|title=Italdesign Giugiaro Parcour Concept: Want a hybrid? How about mixing a Gallardo with an SUV? \|url=https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a15114709/italdesign-giugiaro-parcour-concept-first-drive-review/}}
	* {{cite \|date= \|last= \|first= \|work= \|publisher= \|title= \|url=}}		* {{cite \|date= \|last= \|first= \|work= \|publisher= \|title= \|url=}}
		+
		+	== NPE catalog ==
		+
		+	{\|
		+	\|NA 88003\|\|29.90 €\|\|DeLorean Zeitmaschine Classic<br><sup>''DeLorean Time-machine Classic''</sup>
		+	\|-
		+	\|NA 88004\|\|29.90 €\|\|DeLorean Zeitmaschine Wetterexperiment<br><sup>''DeLorean Time-machine Weather-experiment''</sup>
		+	\|-
		+	\|NA 88005\|\|29.90 €\|\|DeLorean Zeitmaschine Fliegend<br><sup>''DeLorean Time-machine Flying''</sup>
		+	\|-
		+	\|NA 88006\|\|29.90 €\|\|DeLorean Zeitmaschine Offroad<br><sup>''DeLorean Time-machine Offroad''</sup>
		+	\|-
		+	\|NA 23302\|\|99.90 €\|\|DeLorean Schienenzeitmaschine motorisiert<br><sup>''DeLorean Rail-time-machine motorized''</sup>
		+	\|}
		+
		+	===Citroen OS Cab of the Future 2015 Taxi===
		+	{\|
		+	\|NA 99004\|\|39.00 €\|\|Taxi Luxor Cab - fahrend<br><sup>''Taxi Luxor Cab - traveling''</sup>
		+	\|-
		+	\|NA 99005\|\|39,90 €\|\|Taxi Luxor Cab - fliegend<br><sup>''Taxi Luxor Cab - flying''</sup>
		+	\|}
		+
		+	Die Citroen DS-Fahrzeuge sind aufgrund ihres futuristischen Aussehens gerne gewählte Requisiten für zahlreiche Filme und Fernsehserien. Unser Modell zeigt das Citroen DS Luxor Cab aus dem zweiten Teil einer bekannten Filmtriologie aus dem Jahre 1989. Die Modellausführung ist ein hochdetailiertes Resin-Handarbeitsmodell mit abnehmbaren Dach. Im Innern ist die Inneneinrichtung exakt dem Filmauto nachgebildet. Es enthält GPS-System, unsymmetrische Sitzbedruckung und kann mit einem Fahrer, nur echt mit Papagei, nachgerüstet werden.
		+	:<small>''The Citroen DS vehicles are often chosen props for numerous films and TV series due to their futuristic appearance. Our model shows the Citroen DS Luxor Cab from the second part of a well-known film triology from the year 1989. The model execution is a highly detailed Resin handicraft model with removable roof. Inside, the interior is exactly the same as the movie car. It includes GPS system, asymmetric seat printing and can be retrofitted with a driver, just real with parrot.''</small>
		+
		+	Heute befindet sich das Original-Filmfahrzeug im Besitz eines französischen Sammlers. Aufgrund der großen Nachfrage haben wir das Modell wieder in das Sortiment genommen und das Modell kann ab sofort wieder vorbestellt werden.
		+	:<small>''Today, the original movie vehicle is owned by a French collector. Due to the high demand, we have taken the model back into the range and the model can be pre-ordered now.''</small>
		+
		+	===Weltraum-Taxi Luxor Space===
		+	:(Space Taxi Luxor Space)
		+	{\|
		+	\|NA 99093\|\|€\|\|Weltraum-Taxi Luxor Space, frisch gewaschen<br><sup>''Space Taxi Luxor Space, freshly washed''</sup>
		+	\|-
		+	\|NA 99124\|\|€\|\|Weltraum-Taxi Luxor Space gealtert<br><sup>''Space Taxi Luxor Space aged''</sup>
		+	\|}
		+
		+	Beide Weltraum-Taxen sind High-Standard Resin handmade Ausführung und mit hochdetailierter Inneneinrichtung versehen. Die Modelle können mit passenden Figuren bestückt werden. Getönte Scheiben runden das perfekte Finish ab.
		+	:<small>''Both space taxis are high-standard resin handmade and equipped with highly detailed interior. The models can be equipped with matching figures. Tinted windows complete the perfect finish.''</small>
		+
		+	Sollten Sie mit Ihrem Raumschiff auf einer Mission in den Tiefen des Alls unterwegs sein und Sie von der Zentralregierung der Erde aufgefordert werden, zur Rettung selbiger sofort zurückzukehren, kann es passieren, dass von einem solchen Taxi abgeholt werden. Genießen Sie den Trip und lassen Sie die Finger von dem Fahrer.
		+	:<small>''If you are on a mission in the depths of space with your spaceship and you are asked by the central government of the Earth to return to rescue them immediately, you may be picked up by such a taxi. Enjoy the trip and keep your hands off the driver.''</small>
		+
		+	===Peterbilt 281 Confidential===
		+	Im Jahre 1939 wurde die Firma Peterbilt in Oakland gegründet. Die Firma hat sich in den USA stetig positiv entwickelt und gilt seit ihrer Gründung als führender Hersteller qualitativ hochwertiger LKW. Immer waren Neuerungen mitbegründet durch Peterbilt, so z.B. um 90° klappbare Führerhäuser, Aluminium-Niet-Bauweise und Schlafkabinen. Eine Vielzahl von Typen runden die Produktpalette ab.
		+	:<small>''In 1939 the company Peterbilt was founded in Oakland. The company has continued to develop positively in the US and has been a leading manufacturer of high quality trucks since its inception. Innovations were always co-founded by Peterbilt. 90° folding cabs, aluminum rivet construction and sleeping cabins. A variety of types complete the product range.''</small>
		+
		+	Zum Filmstar wurde der Peterbilt 281 Confidential mit Tankauflieger aus dem Jahre 1956 in einem Frühwerk eines bekannten Filmproduzenten und Regiesseurs aus dem Jahre 1973. Weitere Peterbilt-Lastkraftwagen schafften den Sprung auf die Leinwand im Jahre 2001, 2007 und 2011. Unser Modell kann nur bei entsprechend wirtschaftlichen Vorbestellungen realisiert werden.
		+	:<small>''The film star became the Peterbilt 281 Confidential with tank trailer from the year 1956 in an early work of a well-known film producer and director from the year 1973. More Peterbilt trucks managed the jump to the screen in 2001, 2007 and 2011. Our model can only if economic pre-orders are realized.''</small>

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	Now, joy that it was, the car still wasn’t running exactly right, especially when Julian was driving, which satisfied my prideful youth. Whenever we had to drive slowly, there was some misfiring and the little pair of catalytic-converter overheat lights would light, showing a plug or three to be fouled. There was a Ferrari dealership in Greensboro, so, the next morning, I put Karen into the Ferrari and talked Julian into following us in Karen’s old Pinto station wagon. I can’t help wondering about Julian. Had I been misreading the man for a number of years or was he completely transformed after one experience behind the wheel of a 308GTS? Because as soon as I got into the cockpit with this young lady, I naturally began showing off, playing Patti Smith and the Clash on the cassette deck and doing 80 and 90 in the Raleigh suburbs, forgetting that I had the map and the directions and Julian would perforce have to follow me. And once I got past Durham and out onto I-85, I put some real will into my do-fast foot. That Pinto had over 100,000 miles on it and a lot of girl-style maintenance, and I don’t think anyone had ever gone over 60 in it. But when I got out of the Ferrari at Foreign Cars Italia in Greensboro, there was Julian pulling right in behind me, the Pinto’s valve clatter and piston ring blowby only a little worse than before. I don’t know how he did it.		Now, joy that it was, the car still wasn’t running exactly right, especially when Julian was driving, which satisfied my prideful youth. Whenever we had to drive slowly, there was some misfiring and the little pair of catalytic-converter overheat lights would light, showing a plug or three to be fouled. There was a Ferrari dealership in Greensboro, so, the next morning, I put Karen into the Ferrari and talked Julian into following us in Karen’s old Pinto station wagon. I can’t help wondering about Julian. Had I been misreading the man for a number of years or was he completely transformed after one experience behind the wheel of a 308GTS? Because as soon as I got into the cockpit with this young lady, I naturally began showing off, playing Patti Smith and the Clash on the cassette deck and doing 80 and 90 in the Raleigh suburbs, forgetting that I had the map and the directions and Julian would perforce have to follow me. And once I got past Durham and out onto I-85, I put some real will into my do-fast foot. That Pinto had over 100,000 miles on it and a lot of girl-style maintenance, and I don’t think anyone had ever gone over 60 in it. But when I got out of the Ferrari at Foreign Cars Italia in Greensboro, there was Julian pulling right in behind me, the Pinto’s valve clatter and piston ring blowby only a little worse than before. I don’t know how he did it.
		+
		+	== Cool cars ==
		+
		+	* {{cite \|date=2014-06-09 \|last=Collins \|first=Andrew P. \|work=Jalopnik \|title=The Oral History of an Amazing 1930 Ford Model A Off-Road Mail Truck \|url=https://jalopnik.com/the-oral-history-of-an-amazing-1930-ford-model-a-off-ro-1588212852}}
		+	* {{cite \|date=2017-11-22 \|last=Esterdahl \|first=Tim \|work=Automobile \|title=Legacy Classic Trucks Dodge Power Wagon Defines Custom Off-Road Badassery: Idaho-based builder brings modern conveniences to post-war rigs \|url=https://www.automobilemag.com/news/legacy-classic-trucks-dodge-power-wagon-defines-custom-off-road-badassery/}}
		+	* {{cite \|date=2018-03-06 \|last=Bruce \|first=Chris \|work=Motor 1 \|publisher= \|title=Stretched Land Rover Defender 6X6 Could Haul Whole Family Off-Road \|url=https://www.motor1.com/news/235182/land-rover-defender-stretched-6x6/}}
		+
		+	;Italdesign Giugiaro Parcour
		+	* {{cite \|date=2013-05-05 \|last=Vijayenthiran \|first=Viknesh \|work=Motor Authority \|title=Italdesign’s Parcour Concept Is A High-Riding Lamborghini Gallardo \|url=https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1082695_italdesigns-parcour-concept-is-a-high-riding-lamborghini-gallardo}}
		+	* {{cite \|date=2013-05-05 \|first=Alexander \|last=Stoklosa \|work=Car and Driver \|title=Italdesign Giugiaro Parcour Coupe and Roadster Concepts: The one coupe/crossover/sports car/off-roader to rule them all. \|url=https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15113959/italdesign-giugiaro-parcour-coupe-and-roadster-concepts-news/}}
		+	* {{cite \|date=2013-03-07 \|last=Szondy \|first=David \|work=Automotive \|publisher=News Atlas \|title=Giugiaro’s Parcour concept – a Lamborghini-powered off-roader \|url=https://newatlas.com/italdesign-giugaro-parcour-all-terrain-supercar/26530/}}
		+	* {{cite \|date=2013-07-02 \|last=Lamm \|first=John \|work=Car and Driver \|title=Italdesign Giugiaro Parcour Concept: Want a hybrid? How about mixing a Gallardo with an SUV? \|url=https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a15114709/italdesign-giugiaro-parcour-concept-first-drive-review/}}
		+	* {{cite \|date= \|last= \|first= \|work= \|publisher= \|title= \|url=}}

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 == Ferrari 308s ==
-{| class="sortable zebra"
+{| class="sortable zebra center c3l c4r c5l"
 |-
-! Years	!! Make	!! Model	!! Prod.	!! E (cc)	!! P (hp)	!! T (Nm)	!! Wb (㎜)	!! L (㎜)	!! W (㎜)	!! H (㎜)	!! Wgt (kg)	!! kph	!! 0–100	!! 0–400	!! 0–1000
+! Years	!! Make	!! Model	!!class=nw| Prod.	!! E (cc)	!!class=nw| P (hp)	!!class=nw| T (Nm)	!!class=nw| Wb (㎜)	!!class=nw| L (㎜)	!!class=nw| W (㎜)	!!class=nw| H (㎜)	!!class=nw| Wgt (kg)	!!class=nw| kph	!!class=nw| 0–100	!!class=nw| 0–400	!!class=nw| 0–1000
 |- class="subsection"
-| 1975–’76	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="308 GTB 0A"| 308 GTB ({{abbr|vetroresina|fiberglass}})	|| 808	|| 2926.9	|| 255	|| –	|| 2340	|| 4230	|| 1720	|| 1120	|| 1050	|| 252	|| -	|| -	|| -
+| 1975–’76	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="308 GTB 0A"| 308 GTB ({{abbr|vetroresina|fiberglass}})	||808	||2926.9	||255	||—	||2340	||4230	||1720	||1120	||1050	||—	||—	||—	||—
 |-
-| 1976–’85	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="308 GTB 0B"| 308 GTB ({{abbr|Michelotto|rally racer}})	||data-sort-value=15| ∼15	|| 2926.9	|| –	|| –	|| 2340	|| 4230	|| 1720	|| 1120	|| –	|| 252	|| -	|| -	|| -
+| 1976–’85	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="308 GTB 0B"| 308 GTB ({{abbr|Michelotto|rally racer}})	||data-sort-value=15| ∼15	||2926.9	||—	||—	||2340	||4230	||1720	||1120	||—	||—	||—	||—	||—
 |- class="subsection"
-| 1977–’79	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="308 GTB 1"| 308 {{abbr|GTB|&lt;em&gt;Gran Turismo Berlinetta&lt;/em&gt;}}	|| 2897	|| 2926.9	|| 255	|| –	|| 2340	|| 4230	|| 1720	|| 1120	|| 1090	|| 252	|| -	|| -	|| -
+| 1977–’79	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="308 GTB 1"| 308 {{abbr|GTB|&lt;em&gt;Gran Turismo Berlinetta&lt;/em&gt;}}	||2897	||2926.9	||255	||—	||2340	||4230	||1720	||1120	||1090	||252	||—	||—	||—
 |-
-| 1977–’79	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="308 GTS 1"| 308 {{abbr|GTS|&lt;em&gt;Gran Turismo Spyder&lt;/em&gt;}}	|| 3219	|| 2926.9	|| 255	|| –	|| 2340	|| 4230	|| 1720	|| 1120	|| 1090	|| 252	|| -	|| -	|| -
+| 1977–’79	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="308 GTS 1"| 308 {{abbr|GTS|&lt;em&gt;Gran Turismo Spyder&lt;/em&gt;}}	||3219	||2926.9	||255	||—	||2340	||4230	||1720	||1120	||1090	||252	||—	||—	||—
 |- class="section"
-| 1980–’81	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="208 GTB 1"| 208 GTB	|| 140	|| 1990.64	|| 155	|| 170	|| 2340	|| 4230	|| 1720	|| 1120	|| 1232	|| 215	|| -	|| -	|| -
+| 1980–’81	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="208 GTB 1"| 208 GTB	||140	||1990.64	||155	||170	||2340	||4230	||1720	||1120	||1232	||215	||—	||—	||—
 |-
-| 1980–’81	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="208 GTs 1"| 208 GTS	|| 160	|| 1990.64	|| 155	|| 170	|| 2340	|| 4230	|| 1720	|| 1120	|| 1254	|| 215	|| -	|| -	|| -
+| 1980–’81	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="208 GTs 1"| 208 GTS	||160	||1990.64	||155	||170	||2340	||4230	||1720	||1120	||1254	||215	||—	||—	||—
 |- class="subsection"
-| 1980–’81	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="308 GTB 2"| 308 GTBi	|| 494	|| 2926.9	|| 214	|| 243	|| 2340	|| 4230	|| 1720	|| 1120	|| 1286	|| 240	|| -	|| -	|| -
+| 1980–’81	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="308 GTB 2"| 308 GTBi	||494	||2926.9	||214	||243	||2340	||4230	||1720	||1120	||1286	||240	||—	||—	||—
 |-
-| 1980–’81	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="308 GTS 2"| 308 GTSi	|| 1743	|| 2926.9	|| 214	|| 243	|| 2340	|| 4230	|| 1720	|| 1120	|| 1297	|| 240	|| -	|| -	|| -
+| 1980–’81	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="308 GTS 2"| 308 GTSi	||1743	||2926.9	||214	||243	||2340	||4230	||1720	||1120	||1297	||240	||—	||—	||—
 |- class="section"
-| 1982–’85	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="208 GTB 2"| 208 GTB Turbo	|| 437	|| 1990.64	|| 220	|| 240	|| 2340	|| 4230	|| 1720	|| 1120	|| 1232	|| 242	|| -	|| -	|| -
+| 1982–’85	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="208 GTB 2"| 208 GTB Turbo	||437	||1990.64	||220	||240	||2340	||4230	||1720	||1120	||1232	||242	||—	||—	||—
 |-
-| 1983–’85	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="208 GTS 2"| 208 GTS Turbo	|| 250	|| 1990.64	|| 220	|| 240	|| 2340	|| 4230	|| 1720	|| 1120	|| 1243	|| 242	|| -	|| -	|| -
+| 1983–’85	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="208 GTS 2"| 208 GTS Turbo	||250	||1990.64	||220	||240	||2340	||4230	||1720	||1120	||1243	||242	||—	||—	||—
 |- class="subsection"
-| 1982–’85	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="308 GTB 3"| 308 GTB Quattrovalvole	|| 748	|| 2926.9	|| 240	|| 260	|| 2340	|| 4230	|| 1720	|| 1120	|| 1275	|| 255	|| -	|| 14.5	|| 26.2
+| 1982–’85	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="308 GTB 3"| 308 GTB Quattrovalvole	||748	||2926.9	||240	||260	||2340	||4230	||1720	||1120	||1275	||255	||—	||14.5	||26.2
 |-
-| 1982–’85	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="308 GTs 3"| 308 GTS Quattrovalvole	|| 3042	|| 2926.9	|| 240	|| 260	|| 2340	|| 4230	|| 1720	|| 1120	|| 1286	|| 255	|| -	|| 14.5	|| 26.2
+| 1982–’85	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="308 GTs 3"| 308 GTS Quattrovalvole	||3042	||2926.9	||240	||260	||2340	||4230	||1720	||1120	||1286	||255	||—	||14.5	||26.2
 |- class="section"
-| 1984–’87	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="308 GTB 4"| 288 {{abbr|GTO|&lt;em&gt;Gran Turismo Omologata&lt;/em&gt;}}	|| 272	|| 2855.08	|| 400	|| 496	|| 2450	|| 4290	|| 1910	|| 1120	|| 1160	|| 305	|| 4.9	|| 12.7	|| 21.8
+| 1984–’87	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="308 GTB 4"| 288 {{abbr|GTO|&lt;em&gt;Gran Turismo Omologata&lt;/em&gt;}}	||272	||2855.08	||400	||496	||2450	||4290	||1910	||1120	||1160	||305	||4.9	||12.7	||21.8
 |- class="section"
-| 1986–’89	|| Ferrari	|| 328 GTB	|| 1344	|| 3185.76	|| 270	|| 304	|| 2350	|| 4255	|| 1730	|| 1128	|| 1263	|| 263	|| 6.4	|| 14.3	|| 25.7
+| 1986–’89	|| Ferrari	||328 GTB	||1344	||3185.76	||270	||304	||2350	||4255	||1730	||1128	||1263	||263	||6.4	||14.3	||25.7
 |-
-| 1986–’89	|| Ferrari	|| 328 GTS	|| 6068	|| 3185.76	|| 270	|| 304	|| 2350	|| 4255	|| 1730	|| 1128	|| 1273	|| 263	|| 6.4	|| 14.3	|| 25.7
+| 1986–’89	|| Ferrari	||328 GTS	||6068	||3185.76	||270	||304	||2350	||4255	||1730	||1128	||1273	||263	||6.4	||14.3	||25.7
 |- class="subsection"
-| 1986–’89	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="208 GTB 3"| [208] GTB Turbo	|| 308	|| 1990.64	|| 254	|| 328	|| 2350	|| 4255	|| 1730	|| 1128	|| 1265	|| 253	|| 6.3	|| 14.3	|| 25.7
+| 1986–’89	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="208 GTB 3"| [208] GTB Turbo	||308	||1990.64	||254	||328	||2350	||4255	||1730	||1128	||1265	||253	||6.3	||14.3	||25.7
 |-
-| 1986–’89	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="208 GTS 3"| [208] GTS Turbo	|| 828	|| 1990.64	|| 254	|| 328	|| 2350	|| 4255	|| 1730	|| 1128	|| 1275	|| 253	|| 6.3	|| 14.3	|| 25.7
+| 1986–’89	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="208 GTS 3"| [208] GTS Turbo	||828	||1990.64	||254	||328	||2350	||4255	||1730	||1128	||1275	||253	||6.3	||14.3	||25.7
 |}

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 == Ferrari 308s ==
-{|
+{| class="sortable zebra"
 |-
 ! Years	!! Make	!! Model	!! Prod.	!! E (cc)	!! P (hp)	!! T (Nm)	!! Wb (㎜)	!! L (㎜)	!! W (㎜)	!! H (㎜)	!! Wgt (kg)	!! kph	!! 0–100	!! 0–400	!! 0–1000
 |-
-| 1975	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="308 GTB 0"| 308 GTB ({{abbr|vetroresina|fiberglass}})	|| 808	|| 2926.9	|| 255	|| –	|| Wb (㎜)	|| L (㎜)	|| W (㎜)	|| H (㎜)	|| 1050	|| 252	|| -	|| -	|| -
+| 1976–’85	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="308 GTB 0B"| 308 GTB ({{abbr|Michelotto|rally racer}})	||data-sort-value=15| ∼15	|| 2926.9	|| –	|| –	|| 2340	|| 4230	|| 1720	|| 1120	|| –	|| 252	|| -	|| -	|| -
 |-
-| 1977	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="308 GTB 1"| 308 {{abbr|GTB|&lt;em&gt;Gran Turismo Berlinetta&lt;/em&gt;}}	|| 2897	|| 2926.9	|| 255	|| –	|| Wb (㎜)	|| L (㎜)	|| W (㎜)	|| H (㎜)	|| 1090	|| 252	|| -	|| -	|| -
+| 1977–’79	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="308 GTS 1"| 308 {{abbr|GTS|&lt;em&gt;Gran Turismo Spyder&lt;/em&gt;}}	|| 3219	|| 2926.9	|| 255	|| –	|| 2340	|| 4230	|| 1720	|| 1120	|| 1090	|| 252	|| -	|| -	|| -
 |-
-| 1977	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="308 GTS 1"| 308 {{abbr|GTS|&lt;em&gt;Gran Turismo Spyder&lt;/em&gt;}}	|| 3219	|| 2926.9	|| 255	|| –	|| 2340	|| 4230	|| 1720	|| 1120	|| 1090	|| 252	|| -	|| -	|| -
+| 1980–’81	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="208 GTs 1"| 208 GTS	|| 160	|| 1990.64	|| 155	|| 170	|| 2340	|| 4230	|| 1720	|| 1120	|| 1254	|| 215	|| -	|| -	|| -
 |-
-| 1980	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="208 GTB 1"| 208 GTB	|| 140	|| 1990.64	|| 155	|| 170	|| 2340	|| 4230	|| 1720	|| 1120	|| 1232	|| 215	|| -	|| -	|| -
+| 1980–’81	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="308 GTS 2"| 308 GTSi	|| 1743	|| 2926.9	|| 214	|| 243	|| 2340	|| 4230	|| 1720	|| 1120	|| 1297	|| 240	|| -	|| -	|| -
 |-
-| 1980	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="208 GTs 1"| 208 GTS	|| 160	|| 1990.64	|| 155	|| 170	|| 2340	|| 4230	|| 1720	|| 1120	|| 1254	|| 215	|| -	|| -	|| -
+| 1983–’85	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="208 GTS 2"| 208 GTS Turbo	|| 250	|| 1990.64	|| 220	|| 240	|| 2340	|| 4230	|| 1720	|| 1120	|| 1243	|| 242	|| -	|| -	|| -
 |-
-| 1980	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="308 GTB 2"| 308 GTBi	|| 494	|| 2926.9	|| 214	|| 243	|| 2340	|| 4230	|| 1720	|| 1120	|| 1286	|| 240	|| -	|| -	|| -
+| 1982–’85	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="308 GTs 3"| 308 GTS Quattrovalvole	|| 3042	|| 2926.9	|| 240	|| 260	|| 2340	|| 4230	|| 1720	|| 1120	|| 1286	|| 255	|| -	|| 14.5	|| 26.2
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-| 1980	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="308 GTS 2"| 308 GTSi	|| 1743	|| 2926.9	|| 214	|| 243	|| 2340	|| 4230	|| 1720	|| 1120	|| 1297	|| 240	|| -	|| -	|| -
+| 1986–’89	|| Ferrari	|| 328 GTS	|| 6068	|| 3185.76	|| 270	|| 304	|| 2350	|| 4255	|| 1730	|| 1128	|| 1273	|| 263	|| 6.4	|| 14.3	|| 25.7
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-| 1982	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="208 GTB 2"| 208 GTB Turbo	|| 437	|| 1990.64	|| 220	|| 240	|| 2340	|| 4230	|| 1720	|| 1120	|| 1232	|| 242	|| -	|| -	|| -
+| 1986–’89	|| Ferrari	||data-sort-value="208 GTS 3"| [208] GTS Turbo	|| 828	|| 1990.64	|| 254	|| 328	|| 2350	|| 4255	|| 1730	|| 1128	|| 1275	|| 253	|| 6.3	|| 14.3	|| 25.7
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		+	== Ferrari 308s ==
		+	{\|
		+	\|-
		+	! Years !! Make !! Model !! Prod. !! E (cc) !! P (hp) !! T (Nm) !! Wb (㎜) !! L (㎜) !! W (㎜) !! H (㎜) !! Wgt (kg) !! kph !! 0–100 !! 0–400 !! 0–1000
		+	\|-
		+	\| 1975 \|\| Ferrari \|\|data-sort-value="308 GTB 0"\| 308 GTB ({{abbr\|vetroresina\|fiberglass}}) \|\| 808 \|\| 2926.9 \|\| 255 \|\| – \|\| Wb (㎜) \|\| L (㎜) \|\| W (㎜) \|\| H (㎜) \|\| 1050 \|\| 252 \|\| - \|\| - \|\| -
		+	\|-
		+	\| 1977 \|\| Ferrari \|\|data-sort-value="308 GTB 1"\| 308 {{abbr\|GTB\|<em>Gran Turismo Berlinetta</em>}} \|\| 2897 \|\| 2926.9 \|\| 255 \|\| – \|\| Wb (㎜) \|\| L (㎜) \|\| W (㎜) \|\| H (㎜) \|\| 1090 \|\| 252 \|\| - \|\| - \|\| -
		+	\|-
		+	\| 1977 \|\| Ferrari \|\|data-sort-value="308 GTS 1"\| 308 {{abbr\|GTS\|<em>Gran Turismo Spyder</em>}} \|\| 3219 \|\| 2926.9 \|\| 255 \|\| – \|\| 2340 \|\| 4230 \|\| 1720 \|\| 1120 \|\| 1090 \|\| 252 \|\| - \|\| - \|\| -
		+	\|-
		+	\| 1980 \|\| Ferrari \|\|data-sort-value="208 GTB 1"\| 208 GTB \|\| 140 \|\| 1990.64 \|\| 155 \|\| 170 \|\| 2340 \|\| 4230 \|\| 1720 \|\| 1120 \|\| 1232 \|\| 215 \|\| - \|\| - \|\| -
		+	\|-
		+	\| 1980 \|\| Ferrari \|\|data-sort-value="208 GTs 1"\| 208 GTS \|\| 160 \|\| 1990.64 \|\| 155 \|\| 170 \|\| 2340 \|\| 4230 \|\| 1720 \|\| 1120 \|\| 1254 \|\| 215 \|\| - \|\| - \|\| -
		+	\|-
		+	\| 1980 \|\| Ferrari \|\|data-sort-value="308 GTB 2"\| 308 GTBi \|\| 494 \|\| 2926.9 \|\| 214 \|\| 243 \|\| 2340 \|\| 4230 \|\| 1720 \|\| 1120 \|\| 1286 \|\| 240 \|\| - \|\| - \|\| -
		+	\|-
		+	\| 1980 \|\| Ferrari \|\|data-sort-value="308 GTS 2"\| 308 GTSi \|\| 1743 \|\| 2926.9 \|\| 214 \|\| 243 \|\| 2340 \|\| 4230 \|\| 1720 \|\| 1120 \|\| 1297 \|\| 240 \|\| - \|\| - \|\| -
		+	\|-
		+	\| 1982 \|\| Ferrari \|\|data-sort-value="208 GTB 2"\| 208 GTB Turbo \|\| 437 \|\| 1990.64 \|\| 220 \|\| 240 \|\| 2340 \|\| 4230 \|\| 1720 \|\| 1120 \|\| 1232 \|\| 242 \|\| - \|\| - \|\| -
		+	\|-
		+	\| 1983 \|\| Ferrari \|\|data-sort-value="208 GTS 2"\| 208 GTS Turbo \|\| 250 \|\| 1990.64 \|\| 220 \|\| 240 \|\| 2340 \|\| 4230 \|\| 1720 \|\| 1120 \|\| 1243 \|\| 242 \|\| - \|\| - \|\| -
		+	\|-
		+	\| 1982 \|\| Ferrari \|\|data-sort-value="308 GTB 3"\| 308 GTB Quattrovalvole \|\| 748 \|\| 2926.9 \|\| 240 \|\| 260 \|\| 2340 \|\| 4230 \|\| 1720 \|\| 1120 \|\| 1275 \|\| 255 \|\| - \|\| 14.5 \|\| 26.2
		+	\|-
		+	\| 1982 \|\| Ferrari \|\|data-sort-value="308 GTs 3"\| 308 GTS Quattrovalvole \|\| 3042 \|\| 2926.9 \|\| 240 \|\| 260 \|\| 2340 \|\| 4230 \|\| 1720 \|\| 1120 \|\| 1286 \|\| 255 \|\| - \|\| 14.5 \|\| 26.2
		+	\|-
		+	\| 1984 \|\| Ferrari \|\|data-sort-value="308 GTB 4"\| 288 {{abbr\|GTO\|<em>Gran Turismo Omologata</em>}} \|\| 272 \|\| 2855.08 \|\| 400 \|\| 496 \|\| 2450 \|\| 4290 \|\| 1910 \|\| 1120 \|\| 1160 \|\| 305 \|\| 4.9 \|\| 12.7 \|\| 21.8
		+	\|-
		+	\| 1985 \|\| Ferrari \|\| 328 GTB \|\| 1344 \|\| 3185.76 \|\| 270 \|\| 304 \|\| 2350 \|\| 4255 \|\| 1730 \|\| 1128 \|\| 1263 \|\| 263 \|\| 6.4 \|\| 14.3 \|\| 25.7
		+	\|-
		+	\| 1985 \|\| Ferrari \|\| 328 GTS \|\| 6068 \|\| 3185.76 \|\| 270 \|\| 304 \|\| 2350 \|\| 4255 \|\| 1730 \|\| 1128 \|\| 1273 \|\| 263 \|\| 6.4 \|\| 14.3 \|\| 25.7
		+	\|-
		+	\| 1986 \|\| Ferrari \|\|data-sort-value="208 GTB 3"\| [208] GTB Turbo \|\| 308 \|\| 1990.64 \|\| 254 \|\| 328 \|\| 2350 \|\| 4255 \|\| 1730 \|\| 1128 \|\| 1265 \|\| 253 \|\| 6.3 \|\| 14.3 \|\| 25.7
		+	\|-
		+	\| 1986 \|\| Ferrari \|\|data-sort-value="208 GTS 3"\| [208] GTS Turbo \|\| 828 \|\| 1990.64 \|\| 254 \|\| 328 \|\| 2350 \|\| 4255 \|\| 1730 \|\| 1128 \|\| 1275 \|\| 253 \|\| 6.3 \|\| 14.3 \|\| 25.7
		+	\|}
		+
	== Yow Modellini ==		== Yow Modellini ==
	{\| class="sortable zebra"		{\| class="sortable zebra"

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	\| [http://www.yowmodellini.com/webshop/shop.cgi?number=250 K250] \|\| Honda \|\| Acura Advanced Sports Car Concept \|\| —		\| [http://www.yowmodellini.com/webshop/shop.cgi?number=250 K250] \|\| Honda \|\| Acura Advanced Sports Car Concept \|\| —
	\|}		\|}
		+
		+	== Ferrari Reinvents Manifest Destiny ==
		+	{{hatnote\|[https://www.caranddriver.com/archives/ferrari-reinvents-manifest-destiny-pj-orourke-and-a-ferrari-308gts-archived-feature Archived Feature]}}
		+	; P.J. O’Rourke and a Ferrari 308GTS
		+	: A blood-red 308GTS streaks west, warning the third world to get its crummy oxcarts out of the road.
		+	: June 1980 By P.J. O’ROURKE Photos By SCOTT HENRY
		+
		+	[https://hips.hearstapps.com/amv-prod-cad-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/images/media/267384/ferrari-reinvents-manifest-destiny-pj-orourke-and-a-ferrari-308gts-archived-feature-car-and-driver-photo-659929-s-original.jpg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,center&resize=900:* Image 1]
		+
		+	We made it from Atlanta to Dallas in twelve and a half hours. But that was because we were just cruising, you know, taking in the scenery and enjoying the local color. Besides, we got stuck in bumper-to-bumper camper traffic all the way to Birmingham. Some big collegiate sports event was under way—the University of South Carolina versus Alabama’s Crimson Tide in a varsity dogfight, to judge by the fans. No, no, I won’t make fun of those good old boys in their Winnebagos driving since dawn with their good old families all the way from Columbia and Charleston and Beaufort just to root for the team of their choice. No, I won’t crack wise about the denizens of that fair corner of the free world, because I feel too good about Western Civilization. And the reason I feel too good about Western Civilization is that there I was a living, breathing part of it, in the best damn car I’ve ever driven, smack in the middle of the best damn country there’s ever been on earth. And, also, because cutting in and out of those giant travel homes at a hundred miles an hour is more fun than a Marseille shore leave, and hardly anybody riding in them threw beer cans at us either. Zoom, zoom, zip, zip, I couldn’t have been happier if I’d had a sack full of Iranian radicals to drag behind me.
		+
		+	And they love cars down there. ''Love'' ’em. The men look, and the women look too. And they smile with honest pleasure just to see something that dangerous-looking doing something that dangerous. But best of all the looks we got were the looks we got from the ten-year-old boys. They’d be back there with their little faces pressed against the glass in the RV back windows, and they’d see this red rocket sled coming up behind them in the $50 lane. It couldn’t help but touch your heart, how their eyes lit up and their mouths dropped down, as if Santa’d brought them an entire real railroad train. You could all but hear the pitter-patter of the sneakers on their feet as they ran up front and started jerking on their dads’ Banlon shirt collars, jumping up and down and yelling and pointing out the windshield, “''Didja see it?! Didja see it, Dad?! Didja?! Didja?! Didja?! Didja?!''”
		+
		+	We came by a 930 Turbo Porsche near the Talladega exit. He was going about 90 when we passed him, and he gave us a little bit of a run, passed us at about 110, and then we passed him again. He was as game as anybody we came across and was hanging right on our tail at 120. Ah, but then—then we just ''walked'' away from him. Five seconds and he was nothing but an overturned-boat-shaped dot in the mirrors. I suppose he could have kept up, but driving one of those ass-engined Nazi slot cars must be a task at around 225 percent of the speed limit. But not for us. I’ve got more vibration here on my electric typewriter than we had blasting into Birmingham that beautiful morning in that beautiful car on a beautiful tour across this wonderful country from the towers of Manhattan to the bluffs of Topanga Canyon so fast we filled the appointment logs of optometrists’ offices in 30 cities just from people getting their eyes checked for seeing streaks because they’d watched us go by.
		+
		+	Don’t get me wrong; we weren’t racing. This was strictly a pleasure drive. We had a leisurely lunch in Tuscaloosa, had long talks with every gas-station attendant we saw (and at about nine miles a gallon with a nineteen-gallon tank, we saw them all), and ran into some heavy rain in Louisiana, too—had to slow down to practically a hundred, as it was a two-lane road. And then in Shreveport we had a big steak dinner with lots of cocktails and coffee and dessert and Remy Martin. Why, really, we just ''strolled'' into Dallas on that third day of a week during which I had more fun than I have ever had doing anything that didn’t involve young women. And this kind of fun lasted longer. And I never fell asleep on top of it once.
		+
		+	[https://hips.hearstapps.com/amv-prod-cad-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/images/media/51/ferrari-manifest-inline1-photo-660088-s-original.jpg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&resize=800:* Image 2]
		+
		+	Actually, the trip didn’t start out all that well. The idea was … well, I’m not quite sure what the idea was. But Ferrari North America, which is based in Montvale, New Jersey, had a 308GTS that needed to be delivered to Los Angeles by January 2, to be featured in a movie. Ferrari called ''Car and Driver'' and asked if they’d like to assign someone to drive it across the country. ''Car and Driver'' was good enough to ask me, and of course I said yes. But I had misgivings. Like anyone who loves cars, I’d been fantasizing about Ferraris since before I knew how to say the name. ''Fur-rare-ies'', I thought they were. But in my imagination they still all looked like Testa Rossas. In recent years they’d gotten a bit beyond me; I didn’t know what to make of these modern pasta-bender luxo-boxes with price tags in the early ionosphere. They have their engines in sideways and backwards, and you sit down on the floor where you can’t see your fenders, your feet, or the road. Or that’s the way they seemed to me when I sat in one at the auto show, which was the only time I ever had sat in one. And because they were so funny-looking, I assumed they were hard to drive. Besides, I’m opposed on principle to things with wheels that cost more than $20,000 and don’t have “Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe” written down the side. Why, there are people starving in Italy. Or going hungry, anyway. Well, maybe not hungry, but I’ll bet they don’t have enough closet space and the kids have to share a bedroom. And I had some other problems, too. I have a daytime job where I’m editor of the ''National Lampoon'' and I had fallen grievously behind in potty jokes, racial slurs, and comments that demean women. Deadlines loomed, the art department was in a pet, and down at the printing plant they were snarling in their cages. I had no business taking off just then to go do something silly in a rolling red expense account. So I wasn’t as enthusiastic about this project as I might have been, especially when I had to go tell my boss, the president of the ''National Lampoon''’s parent corporation, that I had chosen this extremely inconvenient week to go on a cross-country screw-around for the benefit of another magazine. Now this boss of mine, Julian Weber, is a cold, taciturn, hard-eyed Harvard Law School graduate, about 50 years old, always dressed in a suit, and a very square sort of fellow. And as . was standing in front of his desk, backing and filling and making up lies, he began to frown with great concentration. What I was saying was, “I know it doesn’t seem like I’ve been here very much lately but I’ve … uh … been working at home a lot,” but what I was thinking was where I could get the boxes I would need when I cleaned out my desk.
		+
		+	Then he blurted it out: “Can I go too?”
		+
		+	The next thing I knew, I was sitting in the parking lot at Ferrari, sitting way down on the floor of this $45,000 atomic doorstop, completely puzzled by the controls; and sitting rather stiffly in the bucket seat next to me was my goddamned boss. At least he had a pair of of blue jeans on, but his blue jeans had been ''pressed'', with a perfect crease across each knee. I don’t know if they sell blue jeans at Brooks Brothers, but if they do that’s where he’d bought these. I couldn’t figure out what it was going to be like, cooped up for a week in a car with somebody and unable to discuss drugs or teen-aged girls. I also couldn’t figure out how to work the car. Everyone at Ferrari was on Christmas vacation; the keys had been left with the receptionist. There wasn’t even anyone there to look properly worried, let alone to show me how to start the thing. And the Ferrari manual was translated from Italian to English by someone who spoke only Chinese. “Well,” said Mr. Weber, “I’m ready to go now.”
		+
		+	I remembered that Bill Baker, Ferrari’s director of public relations, had told me, “Be sure not to —— or you’ll foul the plugs.” But what it was that I wasn’t supposed to ——, I had no idea. So, finally, I just started it up and very tentatively, very nervously drove it out onto the Garden State Parkway, where the plugs immediately fouled. We coasted onto the berm. I got the car started again and out into traffic and it loaded up and stalled. I got it started another time and it began to misfire and choke, and I had to stick it in third and run it up over five grand just to keep the engine moving.
		+
		+	“I thought you knew how to drive one of these,” said my boss. And I had to keep it in third all the way to Trenton before the plugs cleared. A solid wall of dirty traffic was pressing in from every side while I sat perspiring, not a fender in sight, waiting for some jackass in a Peterbilt to make a belly tank out of us. I got off the turnpike at Wilmington and headed down the Delmarva Peninsula. The car seemed to be running all right, but now Julian wanted to drive. I was afraid that, if he didn’t keep the revs up, we’d stall again, and I couldn’t explain to him how to drive the car because I hadn’t the slightest idea myself, and, besides, I just didn’t feel like riding along at 55 with this lawyer type at the wheel telling me how foreign cars of this kind seemed “quite unusual in their method of operation” or some such. I mean, Julian’s a New Yorker, and New Yorkers think all cars are yellow and have lights on the roof. So I held him off down past Dover, but he was beginning to insist, and he’s my boss, and what could I do?
		+
		+	[https://hips.hearstapps.com/amv-prod-cad-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/images/media/51/ferrari-manifest-inline2-photo-660089-s-original.jpg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&resize=800:* Image 3]
		+
		+	We had just turned off onto Route 1 along Delaware Bay when I put him behind the wheel. Route 1 is a brand-new road, four lanes wide and butter-smooth, built to carry hordes of picnic-prone Wilmingtonians down to the ocean shore. But in December there’s nothing and nobody in sight. Julian settled into the driver’s seat and gave the ''Millennium Falcon''-like controls a momentary glance. Then he stamped on the accelerator with an expensive loafer and redlined the 308 up through the gears to a hundred miles an hour through the potato fields and abandoned burger stands without time to even take his hand off the shift lever until he hit fifth, and when he did have time to take his hand off he used that hand to plop a Blondie cassette into the Blaupunkt and a quarter-ton of decibels came on with “Die Young Stay Pretty,” and the scenery exploded in the distance, bush and tree debris flying at us while my eyeballs pressed all the way back into the medulla, and that quadruple-throated three-quart V-8 wound up beyond the vocal range of Maria Callas, ''Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee'', leaving, I’m sure, a trail of shattered stemware in the more prosperous of the farmhouses we passed along our way.
		+
		+	And so it was Julian, my sobersided superior in the corporate hierarchy, who turned out to be the real leadfoot. He spent his half of the driving time doing a very credible imitation of Wolfgang von Trips, while I spent that half of the driving time nervously looking for cops. He turned out to be a pretty good guy, too, for a lawyer. (Although, to protect his marriage and business career, his views on drugs and teen-aged girls will go unrecorded.) Anyway, it was that moment out on Delaware Route 1 that changed the entire complexion of the trip.
		+
		+	I guess what we were supposed to be doing with the car was to see if it could perform the function for which it was built. That function is high-speed touring, and the answer is YES, carved in those monumental granite letters that once were used for the title frames in movies like ''El Cid''. The Ferrari isn’t much to bop around town in. It’s necessarily stiff and uncompromising at low speeds. And you’d sooner dock a sailboat in a basement utility sink than try to parallel-park it. But turn the son of a bitch loose on the open road and it’s as though you’ve died and gone to hot-rod heaven. True, the 308 wasn’t designed, really, for American touring, where the speed limit is 55 and distances are measured in thousands of miles instead of hundreds of kilometers. There’s nary a gear in the box where the Ferrari will do 55 with pleasure, and the luggage space wouldn’t make a good ice bucket. But the answer to those complaints is, Who gives a good goddamn? You drive this car for an hour, a hundred miles down the coast between the dunes, with the cattails waving in the tidal marshes and the winter surf crashing on the sea walls, through a blur of empty resort towns with the afternoon sun down low and Edward Hopper-bright across the landscape—you do that for an hour and you’ll kill for this car. You’ll murder people in their beds just to get back behind the wheel. And we slipped down the eastern shore of Maryland, on into that tag end of Virginia below Assateague Island, and out onto the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, nearly as awesome a piece of engineering as what we drove and a scene of heart-aching beauty in the moonlight, down eighteen miles of low trestle causeways, flying above the water; then down into the sea like a depth charge and up onto the high, level bridges like an epiphany in a ''New Yorker'' story we went. And out through Norfolk and into the narrow, twisting roads along the North Carolina border, we were just wreathed in shit-eating grins all the way to Raleigh, where there’s a young lady named Karen I’m particularly fond of.
		+
		+	Now, joy that it was, the car still wasn’t running exactly right, especially when Julian was driving, which satisfied my prideful youth. Whenever we had to drive slowly, there was some misfiring and the little pair of catalytic-converter overheat lights would light, showing a plug or three to be fouled. There was a Ferrari dealership in Greensboro, so, the next morning, I put Karen into the Ferrari and talked Julian into following us in Karen’s old Pinto station wagon. I can’t help wondering about Julian. Had I been misreading the man for a number of years or was he completely transformed after one experience behind the wheel of a 308GTS? Because as soon as I got into the cockpit with this young lady, I naturally began showing off, playing Patti Smith and the Clash on the cassette deck and doing 80 and 90 in the Raleigh suburbs, forgetting that I had the map and the directions and Julian would perforce have to follow me. And once I got past Durham and out onto I-85, I put some real will into my do-fast foot. That Pinto had over 100,000 miles on it and a lot of girl-style maintenance, and I don’t think anyone had ever gone over 60 in it. But when I got out of the Ferrari at Foreign Cars Italia in Greensboro, there was Julian pulling right in behind me, the Pinto’s valve clatter and piston ring blowby only a little worse than before. I don’t know how he did it.