ENGINEERED TO RACE The legendary progenitor of a lineal tradition of boutique modern hypercars that continues to this day, the 288 GTO can be viewed as the forefather of such highly desirable models as the anniversary-celebrating F40 and F50, the groundbreaking Enzo, and today’s peerless LaFerrari.

The 288 was famously born of the FIA’s Group B race and rally homologation regulations introduced for 1984, built to ferocious specifications for a series that was ultimately cancelled before the car could even prove its mettle.

It was inarguably a true supercar designed without compromise.

Built on a sturdy tubular steel chassis with a wheelbase longer than the production 308 GTB, the GTO boasted four-wheel independent suspension and large ventilated disc brakes to deliver competition-worthy handling quality.

The new longitudinally mid-mounted Tipo F114B V-8 engine featured four valves per cylinder, and utilized Weber-Marelli electronic fuel injection, twin IHI turbochargers, and dual B...