It's just one of five—and it's heading to auction.
The short-lived Group B international racing series was all the rage from its introduction in 1982 through 1986, with many manufacturers developing cars expressly for the purpose of winning the World Rally Championship. The series was made up of four classes, each based on parameters such as displacement, weight and wheel width, with rules that exercised few restrictions on technology, design or materials.
Today, collectors regard the 288 GTO, of which 272 were produced between 1984 and 1987, as one of the most desirable and certainly most beautiful Group B cars ever developed. Sharing an outward appearance with Ferrari’s Pininfarina-designed road car, the 308 GTB, the 288 GTO is an altogether different beast under the skin.
Weighing less than 2,100 pounds, the Evoluzione achieves a top speed of nearly 230 mph. Unfortunately, only five of these ultimate competition versions had been built before production ceased. Despite the untimely demise of the Group B series, Ferrari’s 288 GTO nonetheless played a role in the development of its successor, the F40, built from 1987 through 1992. Between them lies the 288 GTO Evoluzione, a car that RM Sotheby’s refers to as “the missing link for many Ferrari collectors.
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