Ferrari reveals special anniversary tour
FERRARI HAS LAUNCHED an official tour of the Dolomites in the Autumn solely for owners of the 272 examples of the Pininfarina-styled twin-turbo V8-powered 288 GTO. Built for three years from 1984, the model is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2024 and the sub-€30,000 (for a car and two people) driving experience will take place on 1-5 October. The event will be Maranello’s second ‘legacy tour’, following an F40 jaunt last year in which 39 cars wound their way from Forte dei Marmi through the Apuan Alps and Tuscany to Maranello.
The GTO Legacy Tour will start from Val Rendena and finish in Maranello, where the cars and crews will be welcomed to the factory by the Ferrari Classiche team as well as members of the original GTO team. The visiting GTOs will be displayed inside the factory gates before the tour ends with a parade at Ferrari’s nearby Fiorano test track.
Andrea Modena, head of Ferrari Classiche, promises more than great roads and stunning scenery, however, saying that Piero Ferrari will also be involved in the tour, and tantalisingly suggests that participants will also be the first in the world outside of the factory to encounter a unique Maranello experience.
According to Ferrari Classiche, the 288 GTO is unique among the company’s classic models in that every single example built is thought still to survive. The tour will use the model’s official name of GTO (minus the 288), but is strictly for the anniversary-celebrating 1980s cars, not their 1960s forebears
