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With the Ferrari Dino 206 and 246 GT's, Ferrari had successfully penetrated the market for smaller capacity supercars, a niche almost totally dominated by Porsche. The 308 GT4 was another new type of car for Ferrari in that, not only was it aimed at the less expensive end of the market, but it also featured two additional rear seats. Never intended to be a replacement for the Dino 246 (that car was the 308 GTB of 1975), so many of the unfair taints this model receives are normally preoccupied with this incorrect notion. Instead, the GT4 was the first in a series of mid-V8-engined 2+2 Ferrari's that were intended to appeal directly to Porsche 911 customers. Although referred to here as Ferrari 308 GT4's, the first series were badged as Dino's in line with Ferrari?s practice of naming it's smaller capacity cars after Enzo Ferrari?s late son. Ferrari Series II 308 GT4's were all badged as Ferrari's though and as a result wore prancing horse emblems.The GT4 used a tubular steel chassis that was basically an enlarged version of the type used on earlier Ferrari 206 and Ferrari 246 models. A mixture of oval and steel tubes, the wheelbase was stretched by 210mm and the bodywork welded directly onto the chassis. Those GT4's destined for the USA also got additional bracing for the bumpers and between the engine compartment / cabin so as to satisfy the increasingly stringent impact legislation being enforced in North America. The transversely mounted, dual overhead camshaft Tipo F106 AL 90 V8 was all-new and featured a displacement of 2926cc thanks to a bore and stroke of 81mm x 71mm respectively. Output was a very respectable 255bhp at 7700rpm (240bhp at 6600rpm for US-spec examples) with a compression ratio of 8.8:1 and four twin-choke Weber 40 DCNF carburettors. All 308 GT4's used engines with wet sump lubrication. This was the first V8 used in a series production Ferrari and it came as no surprise that the origins of the Tipo F106 AL motor lay in the 4.4-litre Tipo 251 V12 as used in the 365 GTB/4 Daytona of 1968. Performance was impressive with the GT4 covering the zero-to-sixty sprint in just 6.4 seconds (7.2 seconds for the US models) and running on to a maximum speed of 155mph (138mph for US cars). Aesthetically, many eyebrows were raised when Ferrari disclosed that the GT4's bodywork was to be designed, not by Pininfarina as had been normal Ferrari practice since the mid 1950?s, but Bertone.Bertone had clothed very few Ferrari's, but those one-off examples that had been created by the firm on Tour de France and SWB's had been absolutely stunning. However, Ferrari couldn't have provided Bertone with a trickier concept, the phase many performance automakers went through during the seventies and eighties for producing mid-engined cars with 2+2 seating spawning several wholly unattractive vehicles. Alongside the Ferrari Dino 246 GT, these Ferrari 308 GT4's may have been less attractive, but as the GT4 had a completely different ideology, the two have few legitimate reasons for comparison.