Ferrari 360 is a mid-engine sports car built by Ferrari from 1999 until 2005. 360 replaced the F355.
Like from F355, it retained the V8 engine, gearbox and optional spyder (retractable soft or hard-top). Engine displacement increased to 3.6-litre with a flat-plane crankshaft and titanium rod. Body design is much exotic including a new aluminum chassis partnered with Alcoa that improves stiffness and increases dimension, pop-up headlamp was dropped in-favour of fixed. Gearbox retains the optional F1-type flappy paddle gearbox while manual remain standard.
Production model initially as Modena a fixed 2-door coupe, spyder later in 2000. CS (Challenge Stradale) is a track-oriented version with some features is exclusively the said version. Race version as N-GT, GT, and GTC, the 360 Challenge is the race-built version with two thin stripe vinyls.
Production ended in 2005 to give way the Ferrari F430 to produce until 2009.
Appearances[]
- In Clarkson: Head to Head, Jeremy compares the Ferrari 360 to the Aston Martin DB7 Vantage. Despite being a Ferrari nut at the time, Jeremy loathes the 360, criticizing its styling, tricky handling and awful gearbox, significantly preferring the Aston.
- In Clarkson's Top 100 Cars, the 360 earned 95th place by Jeremy, due to it's awful handling, and hideous styling.
- In Series 1, Episode 6 of Top Gear, the 360 was seen in the "Uncool" section of the Cool Wall, with Clarkson saying that the car is "a big Fiat".
- In Series 2, Episode 3 of Top Gear, the 360 took part in a drag race against the Top Gear Jaguar XJS along with the Porsche 911 Turbo, Honda NSX, Venturi Atlantique and Corvette C5.
- In Series 4, Episode 3, Jeremy tested the 360 Challenge Stradale at the Top Gear Test Track comparing it against the Porsche 911 GT3 RS. Although he praises the Porsche, he prefers the Ferrari, for being more of thrill. At the hands of The Stig, both cars lapped the Top Gear Test Track in 1:22.3.
- In Clarkson: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, the 360 makes a cameo when Jeremy attempts to prove that Europeans can make better sounding V8s than the Americans.