Ferrari 275

This is the catalogue record of the Ferrari 275, one of 352 models Ferrari has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 1964. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Ferrari 275 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1960s were the decade of the pony car, the mid-engined revolution and the birth of the modern hot hatchback's ancestors — engineering advanced faster than in any decade before it. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Plymouth Plymouth Barracuda, the Porsche Porsche 911, the Ford Ford Bronco — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Ferrari 275 reads like this: the record lists its engine as 3.3 L Ferrari Colombo engine#330 / Colombo V12 engine / with two overhead camshafts (275 GTB, GTB/C and GTS) / or four overhead camshafts (275 GTB/4 and GTS/4 NART Spyder); kerb weight is recorded at 1300 kg (steel bodied 275 GTB/4) / 1112 kg (alloy-bodied 275 GTB/C); drive goes through 5-speed manual transaxle with synchromesh; the layout is Front-mid engine, rear wheel drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Ferrari story

Within Ferrari's own catalogue the Ferrari 275 sits alongside the 250 GTE, the 328 GTS, the 348 TS, the 360 Modena. The record names the Ferrari 250 as its predecessor and the Ferrari Daytona / Ferrari 365 GTB/4 / Ferrari 330#330 GTC/GTS / Ferrari 330 GTS as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Francesco Salamone at Pininfarina / Scaglietti (275 GTS/4 NART Spyder). Assembly is recorded at Italy: Modena (Carrozzeria Scaglietti).

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

Why concepts and prototypes are in the library

Most car databases stop at series production. This one deliberately does not, because concept cars, racing specials and cancelled prototypes are where the industry thinks out loud — the ideas tested in public years before they reach a showroom. Holding them beside the production cars they inspired makes the lineage legible: nearly every landmark road car in this library has a concept ancestor somewhere in the catalogue, and the connections run through the era links on every page.

From catalogue to ownership

The catalogue records what the Ferrari 275 was; the ownership database records what it is like to own. MotorJury computes a verdict for every model year the United States federal record covers — complaints, recalls, real economy — refreshed nightly, with no opinions involved. If this car reached the American market, its verdicts are in there.