I Must Say, Sir, Your Ferrari 360 Sounds Suspiciously Like A Toyota
Perhaps inspired by my recent TTAC fiction piece The little death, I was idly shopping for 360 Modenas on eBay this morning when I came across this little gem. Obviously, it’s not a real 360… but it’s not THAT bad, right?
The “360” was built from a final-generation Toyota MR2 and can be yours for $18,900. According to the moderator of one of the kit-car boards I’ve read, the builder was supposedly “pressured by Ferrari” to stop making them. My guess is that Ferrari’s attorneys sent him a boilerplate letter telling him not to use the Prancing Horse, but perhaps the company is still smarting over that whole first-two-seasons-of-Miami-Vice deal. Hard to say.
Still, given that the cheapest 360 eBay currently has is likely to pull about forty-nine thousand dollars, there’s clearly a savings involved with driving a Toyota Modena. And before anybody asks, $49K is still too much for that “real” one. Everything about it, from the all-season tires to the wear patterns on the interior, screams “$25,000 worth of deferred maintenance”. Better to drop eighty or ninety on a nice one… and as long as you don’t expect to outrun a new Mustang GT, you’re lookin’ good!
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mnm4ever is right on. This thing should be killed with fire. Being a phony is never cool - whether in person or the car you drive. I would FAR rather own an MR2 or even a Tercel than this POS - I'd rather be poor and honest than a tasteless poser. Also, I don't get this desire to fool people with fake badges. IF I even cared what others thought, I'd only really care about folk who have taste and knowledge of cars rather than random chumps impressed by anything red on wheels.
What wear patterns are you seeing, Jack? I don't like the tires either but they look relatively new. I wouldn't be surprised if the dealer put threw on the cheapest rubber he could find while he horsed the car up.
This thing should be called the Ferrari Merda.