Ferrari Dino 246 GT
Why 5.5: 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.
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Median asking price, good condition · €14k (1969) → €313k (2026), trending up · illustrative data
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.