Cheapest Ferrari Model in the World

Forgotten by many, despised by others, the Ferrari Mondial is today the most accessible model of the Italian brand, although not for any pocket

It doesn’t matter if you’re a fan of cars or you just don’t care, you’ve ever heard of Ferrari anyway and surely in your mind you’ll have a sports car of immeasurable beauty that you like it or not, you want to drive sometime in your life.

For those of us who haven’t, there shouldn’t be a more pleasant feeling than accelerating on a European (or Mexican, anyway) road in a beast with hundreds of horsepower, with a spectacular design and if it’s Italian, much better.

Talking about Ferrari is worthy of a whole library, however there are things that we cannot ignore, and that is that there are models that are really loved by the public who like this brand and others that simply and simply were not well received and even spent the night.

That’s what happens with the Ferrari Mondial, a car that always polarized fans of the brand and that really liked it less than previously thought and that’s too much in a garage surrounded by legendary cars, big sports cars and even winners of high-level competitions.

The Ferrari Mondial was never one of the fastest, it came close to being one of the most powerful at all and for many, it wasn’t even pretty and this put it in a place that no car wants, that of oblivion, at least until now, because the fact that it is not a beastly machine, is a vehicle with a logo of the famous Prancing Horse on the front of the chest and it attracts more attention when we tell you that it is the cheapest Ferrari model that exists on the planet.

The Ferrari Mondial was produced between 1980 and 1993 and the design work was carried out by Pininfarina on a body created by Carrozzeria Scaglietti, which at the outset is a good letter of introduction, of course if it weren’t for what’s inside, we mean a total lack of power and speed.

The Ferrari Mondial engine is a V8 that, although it is not a bad engine for the rest of the brands, for a Ferrari it is something like a “half-engine”, a shame unable to provide drivers with what anyone would expect from a Ferrari, because we are talking only about 214 horsepower, and if we add to that that the vehicle was really very heavy when exceeding one and a half tons, then the power is much lower, in fact it requires “calendars” 9.5 seconds to go from 0 to 100 km/h and a lot of effort to accelerate to 238 kilometers per hour, its top speed.

But all this is not really the problem that made people not want to know anything about the Ferrari Mondial at the time, but rather the blame was focused on the Bosch injection system, which by not having a computer, but only mechanical systems, turned out to be more than a headache, which made it not only a slow and heavy Ferrari, but unreliable. Although all this meant that today we can say that it is a cheap car, yes, the cheapest Ferrari in the world.

When we say that it is a cheap Ferrari, perhaps for the bulk of the population it is a false statement, because despite its cost, which we will reveal later, it is not exactly available to everyone, but the perception changes if we compare it with some historical models, such as the Ferrari F40 with which it almost shared times and which today is achieved in no less than $1.5 million.

This Ferrari Mondial can be obtained in a much, much more friendly range, because depending on the year and model it can be obtained from 25 thousand dollars with an average of 30 thousand for the Mondial T and between 35 and 40 thousand for the cabriolet version. Something with which it is undoubtedly impossible to aspire to one of the most famous Ferrari models.

But not everything has to be negative. The Ferrari Mondial is, despite its mechanical ailments, a very manageable car, comfortable inside that has four seats and as if that weren’t enough, it is already considered a “classic”, one that is very little appreciated, but it is, in fact its big problem is the logo, because if it had any other, it would surely be very appreciated.

The strangest thing about it is that it was a car that went almost unnoticed 40 years ago, but that today has a good dose of publicity due to its price, besides that same price is what makes it interesting, because let’s not forget that at the end of the day it was designed by Pininfarina, which not many cars of the same price can boast, the same as the engine, which although it is as powerful as that of a Cupra, has a peculiarity, the Ferrari signature in it.