Ferrari Dino 246 GT
Why 5.3: No badge on the nose, because Enzo Ferrari didn't think a V6 deserved his name — but the 2.4-litre Dino V6 revving to 7,800 rpm in a chassis this light is one of the best-balanced classic Ferraris built, badge or not. Once the market's 'cheap Ferrari' misfit, it's now reassessed and priced accordingly, and the ownership culture that grew up around it — Colorado Grand, Tour Auto, club rallies — never really went away.
Layout
Natural habitat
Ride comfort
Sound
A quad-cam 2.4 V6 mounted transversely behind the seats, running to 7,800 rpm on triple Webers with barely a bulkhead in the way. It is capped by capacity — six small cylinders can only carry so much of a crescendo — so it lands below the V10s and V12s above it.
6-cylinder · naturally aspirated · 7,800 rpm redline · rated 8.6 / 10 for engine sound
Market value
Median asking price, good condition · €14k (1969) → €313k (2026), trending up · illustrative data
Child seats · ISOFIX
Built before ISOFIX existed, so there are no anchor points at all. A child seat here is a seatbelt installation in the only passenger seat there is.
Derived from production years and seating layout, not a per-car source. ISOFIX was standardised as ISO 13216 in 1997, required on new EU model types from 2011 and on all new EU cars from 2014.
The long version
Enzo Ferrari's refusal to put the Prancing Horse on a road car with anything less than a V12 or a competition pedigree meant the 246 wore Dino badges instead, and for two decades the market treated it as the affordable, slightly lesser Ferrari accordingly. That misreading is exactly what kept it in circulation: Dino owners never treated the car as too precious to drive, because for most of its life nobody else thought it was precious either. Values have caught up hard since the 2010s as collectors reassessed the chassis on its own terms, but the driving culture that built up in the cheaper decades — vintage rallies, weekend blasts, genuine daily use among the committed — has mostly carried over rather than been priced out.