While Ferrari’s record for automotive excellence is spectacular, it has built some stinkers. Yes, even the lousiest Ferrari is still cherished by someone, somewhere. But, well, these cars sucked.



It’s important to note that our list aims to avoid being a tired retread of the same road Ferraris you already knew were kind of vile (although a couple of those were too awful not to have here). So we’ve also included race cars. See, racing always matters to Ferrari, so the way a Ferrari fails even worse is when it doesn’t win. Also excluded here are road cars that never were extensively sold in the United States, whether through legit channels or the gray market. (Call us provincial, but our province is a country that spans a continent and then some.) This allows us to exclude the wholly terrible 208GTB, 208GTS, and 208GT4 models—powered by a 2.0-liter V-8—that were sold only in Italy during the 1970s as tax-avoidance gimmicks.



Some cars came close to making this list of shame but just weren’t lousy enough. No one here works up much lust for that late-1990s bathtub, the F50, but it’s a few steps too far to call it one of the worst. And while a lot of those four-seat machines from the 1960s, like the porcine 365GT 2+2, weren’t much more than Thunderbirds with prancing-horse badges on their noses, it’s hard to hate on them. But the Ferraris listed here are easy to hate.