Ferrari GT4

This is the catalogue record of the Ferrari GT4, 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 1973. 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 GT4 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1970s were the decade the oil crises rewired the industry — emissions rules, safety bumpers and fuel economy suddenly mattered as much as horsepower, and Japanese manufacturers went global. 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 Mitsubishi Mitsubishi Lancer, the Volkswagen Volkswagen Passat, the Lancia Lancia Stratos — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Ferrari GT4 reads like this: the record lists its engine as 2.9 L Ferrari Dino engine / Dino V8 engine / V8 (308 GT4) / 2.0 L Dino V8 (208 GT4); kerb weight is recorded at 1150 kg (dry); drive goes through 5-speed manual; the layout is Transverse, rear 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 GT4 sits alongside the 250 GTE, the 328 GTS, the 348 TS, the 360 Modena. The record names the Dino 206/246 GT as its predecessor and the Ferrari Mondial as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Marcello Gandini at Bertone. Assembly is recorded at Italy: Modena.

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 GT4 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.