FERRARI 348 TWIN TURBO
Price: $130,000
Birthplace: Italy
Birthdate: After the Lamborghini P140.
How to say it: “Ma-ma-MEE-yuh.”
If you notice a tacky wing on the rump of a Ferrari 348, you’ve spotted one of Maranello’s twin-turbo mules. The engine in that car was originally conceived as a 250—bp, 2.0-litre, “tax-friendly” iteration, but worldwide demand for the standard 3.4-litre car remains so high that Ferrari balked at calming the revenue agents. That left the engineers free to strap one turbo on each side of the existing 296-bhp V8 — a lash-up that may be offered publicly if Lamborghini’s P140 turns out to embarrass the 348 in drag races.