Driving a Ferrari 288 GTO: A Dream Come True! | Henry Catchpole - The Driver’s Seat

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The Ferrari 288 GTO has been a dream car for Henry Catchpole since he was a boy in the 1980s. But he hasn’t driven one… until now. So does it live up to expectations? The 288 is the model that really brought turbocharging to Ferrari road cars (even if it wasn’t the first turbo Ferrari) and paved the way for the limited run hypercars of the future. But does it really deserve to sit alongside the F40, F50, Enzo and LaFerrari? We parked it next to all of them at Girardo & Co to ponder that very question.

The GTO (it was never called the 288 by Ferrari) also has a fascinating backstory that i...