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# GTO Evoluzione

1985–1988 completion history · Very rare · 6 built

![Ferrari GTO Evoluzione chassis 79888, front three-quarter view at a marina](https://hiconium.com/_derived/images/cars/ferrari-288-gto/art/evoluzione-stage.jpg.w1920.q75.webp)

The execution

The lighter Michelotto development car, built for competition routes that disappeared before it could start.

Pininfarina and Michelotto developed the fibreglass-and-Kevlar body, carbon-fibre rear wing, enlarged turbos and two engine directions. Ferrari counts six cars; RM Sotheby’s and Tom Hartley describe five, and the surviving chassis record does not reconcile them.

On the record

- High-output circuit and lower-output rally specifications
- ~650 hp applies to the high-output circuit specification, not every car
- Planned circuit and privateer tarmac-rally routes both disappeared
- Public price for chassis 79888 remains undisclosed

As separated

Years 1985–1988 completion history

Built 6

Engine Twin-turbo V8 · enlarged turbos · two development specifications

Power ~650 hp · high-output spec

Weight ~940 kg · Ferrari claim

Against the Ferrari 288 GTO

Years 1985–1988 completion history · Ferrari 288 GTO 1984–1987 convention

Built 6 · Ferrari 288 GTO 272

Engine Twin-turbo V8 · enlarged turbos · two development specifications · Ferrari 288 GTO 2'855 cc twin-IHI-turbo V8 · longitudinal, rear-mid

Power ~650 hp · high-output spec · Ferrari 288 GTO 400 hp

Weight ~940 kg · Ferrari claim · Ferrari 288 GTO 1'160 kg · source mass convention varies

[All 288 GTO executions](https://hiconium.com/vehicles/ferrari/288-gto#variants)