Ferrari SP

The Ferrari SP is one of 352 Ferrari models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 1961. 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 SP 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 Volvo Cars Volvo P1800, the Jaguar Cars Jaguar E-Type, the Alfa Romeo Alfa Romeo Giulia — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Ferrari SP reads like this: the record lists its engine as Ferrari Dino engine / Dino 60° & 65° V6 engine / V6 / List of Ferrari engines#V8 / Chiti 90° V8 engine / V8; quoted output is 270 PS; kerb weight is recorded at 590 kg (dry); drive goes through 5-speed manual; the layout is Rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive. Worked together, those figures give roughly 458 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. 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 SP sits alongside the 250 GTE, the 328 GTS, the 348 TS, the 360 Modena. The record names the Dino 246 S as its predecessor and the Ferrari P / Dino 166 P as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Carrozzeria Fantuzzi.

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.

From catalogue to ownership

What this page cannot yet tell you is what the Ferrari SP costs to live with — that is a different dataset. MotorJury's ownership verdicts are computed from federal complaint and recall records plus EPA economy data, published per model year as the nightly ingest reaches each car. If this model was sold in the United States, its years will surface in the ownership database; browse it live or price any car yourself with the true-cost calculator.