The Dino 206 S is the Ferrari that answered a simple question — how much car can this badge carry? — with 220 PS from 2.0 L (1986.60 cc) Dino 65° V6. It was built from 1966 to 1967, in the decade that gave the world the pony car and the mid-engined supercar. Carrozzeria Sports Cars drew it.
How it came about
The (Ferrari) Dino 206 S is a rear mid engine sports prototype produced by Ferrari in 1966–1967 under the Dino marque with the 2 litre V6 engine named after Enzo Ferrari's late son. Ferrari intended to build and sell at least fifty examples for homologation by the CSI in the Group 4 Sportscar category, 2 litre class. While a direct competitor, the new Porsche 906, was already homologated by May 1966 during the ongoing 1966 World Sportscar Championship, only 18 Dino 206S were made until 1967, thus the S for Sportscar never was earned.
Despite being designed for sale at a relatively affordable price, and with space to carry a spare wheel and luggage and other requirements of sportscar rules, and even could be made road legal, the car had to compete in the less regulated Prototype classes instead, 2.0-litre or occasionally over 2.0-litre (then as 246S), where it soon met improved Porsche 906 and its evolution Porsche 910, as well as many other brands. In spite of this handicap the Dino 206S scored three P 2.0 class wins in the middle of the 1966 World Sportscar Championship and finished second in the Up to 2000cc classes of the International Manufacturers Championship, as did the V12 Ferrari P siblings Over 2000cc . The 206 S was the last of the Dino sports racing cars and simultaneously the most produced.
The hardware
Power comes from 2.0 L (1986.60 cc) Dino 65° V6; 220 PS is the published figure. It weighs 580 kg. Work it out per tonne and you get about 379 horsepower — genuine supercar pace. It shifts through a 5-speed manual. The layout matters: the engine sits behind the driver and ahead of the rear axle, which puts the mass in the middle of the car and is why mid-engined cars change direction the way they do. The wheelbase is 2280 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Dino 206 SP. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Aston Martin DB5, the Lamborghini 350 GT, the Honda T360 — show what else the money bought that year. Its Ferrari stablemates include the 250 GTE and the 328 GTS.
What it costs now
There is no federal ownership record for the Dino 206 S — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.