Ferrari · The Nineties

The dossiers

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  348 tb, ts, GTB, GTS and Spider — the troubled opener, the 1993 GTB/GTS that fixed it, and why those 400-odd cars are the collector configuration

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  Mondial t — 348 engineering with four seats, and the only mid-engined four-seat convertible ever built

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  512 TR and F512 M — the last flat-twelves; what changed from the Testarossa, and the 501-car M as the scarcity position

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  456 GT, GTA and 456M — the overlooked grand tourer; the manual versus automatic spread, and the 456M GT manual as the pick

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  F355 Berlinetta, GTS and Spider — the redemption car; why the gated manual carries a premium of around 45% over the F1, and the valve-guide and engine-out economics

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  F50 — 349 cars and the most literal Formula 1 transplant sold; production by colour, and the fuel-cell and engine-out ownership economics

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  550 Maranello — the V12 berlinetta returns; 3,083 manual cars, the Barchetta and the World Speed Record cars

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  360 Modena — the bridge to the volume era, and why its gated-manual minority is the exception

The era

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  How Luca di Montezemolo rebuilt Maranello from 1991 — and why the corporate turnaround is inseparable from the collector values of every car in this guide

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  The F1 decade: from Prost’s near-miss in 1990 to the 1999 constructors’ title; the halo effect on road-car desirability

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  Production context: the 1993 trough when Ferrari delivered ~2,300 cars, and the recovery that made the late-decade cars what they are

Buying & ownership

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  Colour, options and originality — what moves the price between otherwise identical cars

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  Ownership cost structures: annual budgets, major-service intervals and which cars need the engine out for belts

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  Pre-purchase inspection priorities for each car: the deal-breaker check, the history file items and the specialist inspection

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  How to buy: before viewing, at inspection and at negotiation, plus provenance, Classiche and imports