Only 35 Ferrari 348 special series TB Berlinettas were produced worldwide in the early 1990s. Now, a Miami classic The car dealer has two of them for sale and if you want to buy both, you should be prepared to pay Venmo a whopping $450,000 The Barn Miami.
Demanding Shop owner Gaston Rossato personally owned both cars, albeit accidentally. He had been I’m looking for a 348 Speciale and while he was negotiating a deal for one, a second came up for sale. “Two offers were made at the same time and both were accepted,” Rossato tells Jalopnik. “So I ended up with two cars.” One is finished in a rare blue, the other is finished in classic Ferrari red.
Rossato would like to keep both, but the spatial demands of this physical world and his business militate against holding on to two valuable assets for too long. “I enjoy finding a new owner, a new caretaker for a car and being part of the process,” he says.
The 348 Speciale is interesting not only because of its rarity – in addition to the 35 “tb” models with a closed roof, 65 “ts” Spiders with a targa roof were produced, all exclusively for the North American market. It also brought the vehicles of the Speciale series onto the marketThese are limited edition vehicles that arrive at the end of a nameplate’s lifespan (e.g. 458 Speciale, 488 Pista, etc.). These extended the service life slightly through model-specific performance improvements to the drive train, suspension, exhaust and body.
To this end, Hosts the 348 Speciale An additional 12 horsepower from its 3.4-liter V8 engine, a freer-flowing exhaust system, a shortened axle ratio, a two-inch wider track, custom Pirelli P Zero tires, body-colored front and rear splitters and side skirts. According to Ferrari, there is also an asymmetrical air intake and a rear grille cover omission, giving the car a “naked” look. Scandalous!
It was also optionally available with leather seats with Kevlar backrests, similar to those of the F40 supercar. Both Rossato Speciales are equipped with these special buckets. The ones that are there the 19,664 mile Blu-Sera car, the only azure vehicle in the entire series, are made of caramel leather; while the red 36,827 mile cars are ivory.
Although vehicles from the 1990s and 2000s are on the rise in the collector car market, the 348 remains the low point of vintage Ferraris. “Unfortunately, the 348 was rushed to market, so there were a number of things about the car that probably weren’t ‘Ferrari’ enough,” says Jim Weed, editor of the Ferrari market newslettera five-decade-old, bi-monthly review and information source about the brand.
“Enzo had passed away in 1989, so this was sort of the first – I don’t want to say ‘non-Ferrari’ – but the first real car built by Fiat,” says Weed, referring to the acquisition of . by the mainstream brand the Italian company. For this reason, it had some features in the spare parts bin, such as: B. cheap, sticky plastic buttons and switches inside, which Weed says make it feel a bit “tacky.”
All of this kept prices for a modern Ferrari relatively low. According to Weed, nice, well-maintained 348s cost between $75,000 and $85,000. Speciales can easily double that amount and cost between $150,000 and $175,000. According to the classic car valuation experts at Hagerty Berlinetta (tb) cars overprice Spyder (ts) cars by about 15%. A 24,000 mile TB special with Kevlar seats sets new standards sold for $188,000 on Bring a Trailer last year.
Priced at $200,000 for the red TB and $250,000 for the rarer blue TB, Rossato’s cars may or may not be a little above the price curve. It’s been a year since the nearly $200,000 sale at BaT, and The Barn’s cars are beautiful, rarely equipped, low mileage, and with these rising tides all the boats have been watered.
“By developing spin-offs of the original car, regardless of model, Ferrari has helped fuel this desire,” says Weed. He points out that on the rare occasions that these Speciale models are offered for public sale, they often set a new bar that “intentionally pushes a standard 348 higher.” “That tends to help,” he says, “also with future sales of used, regular series vehicles.”