Ferrari 288 GTO

The development of the 288 GTO came started, leaving from the mechanics of the 308 GTB in order to participate to the contests of the B Group. Mauro Forghieri, head Ferrari planner, were involved in the planning of the new model also the Michelotto (scuderia that ran with of the 308 endowed GTB of auto body modified in glass-reinforced plastic).

To emphasize the derivation from the 308 GTB of the 288 GTO, introduced to the hall of the automobile of Geneva of 1984, it contributed also the line of Pininfarina. If aesthetically the new supercar of Maranello seemed a 308 GTB swollen with steroids (mudguards it increases to you, spoiler increased, embrasures), the innovationes were several. The auto body (in completely new truth) was in Kevlar, while the V8 motor, with piston displacement reduced to 2855cc, was supercharged with 2 turbocompressori IHI cools to you from intercooler. The change, equipped of radiator of the oil, was, moreover, mounted to jolt behind the propeller.

With a pressure of supercharging of 1,4 bars and 400cv of the maximum power, the 288 GTO touched the 305 km/h and covered the 400 mt in 12,7 second ones. Although the "numbers" from supremacy the car, deprives of dispositi to you electronic of control, was nervous much to cause also of the distribution of the power little to delineate (the famous delay of answer of the motors upsets of those years).

The program of participation to the competitions never did not come carried a.termine, but the 272 exemplary of produced GTO were sold quickly. Its ideal heir was the F40 of 1987.