Ferrari Mondial
Why 7.0: A mid-engine 2+2 with a gated shifter, usable rear seats and the lowest entry price of any Ferrari, sustained by a reputation so poor that speculation never found it. Its owners rack up more miles than almost any other Ferrari on this list, for the plainest reason there is: nobody is watching the odometer.
Layout
Natural habitat
Ride comfort
Sound
The quad-cam V8 has genuine Ferrari hardness, with transverse gearbox whine layered under it, and the later 3.4 pulls cleanly to 7,500. It is capped by being the softest-tuned small Ferrari: quieter exhaust, more insulation, four seats to fill.
8-cylinder · naturally aspirated · 7,500 rpm redline · rated 7.6 / 10 for engine sound
Market value
Median asking price, good condition · €59k (1985) → €51k (2026), trending down · 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, and the belt geometry of the period was not designed with one in mind.
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
The Mondial replaced the 308 GT4 as Ferrari’s mid-engine four-seater and ran thirteen years through four engines — the 214 hp Mondial 8, the quattrovalvole, the 3.2, and finally the t, which rotated the V8 to sit lengthways with the gearbox across it. A cabriolet arrived in 1983 and remains the only series-production mid-engine four-seat convertible anyone has built. It was also, from the day it launched, the punchline: too slow, too tall, too sensible, and burdened with an engine-out belt service that costs the same on a cheap Ferrari as on an expensive one. Roughly six thousand were built and they have stayed at the bottom of the price list ever since, which is precisely why the ownership picture is the healthiest here. Buyers pay Porsche money, expect no appreciation, and drive the thing — to work, on tours, across countries with a passenger in the back. Values have edged up but never spiked, and no flipper has ever gone near one.