1980 Ferrari 308 GTSi: Regular Car Reviews
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- Опубликовано: 5 авг 2024
- If all Magnum PI did was do burnouts and chase after trim in a Ferrari 308 GTSi, I'd still watch the show.
00:00 Intro
2:01 two fuel doors
6:25 Modern Ferrari
9:15 Becoming a Star
13:10 Haves and Have Nots
16:50 Car design and humanity
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Thomas Magnum is
H U N G R Y
-Cookie Monster sounds-
Come here, Magnum!
Best single line of the entire video
Italian traditional driving position, short legs, gorilla arms offset pedals and steering wheel angled slightly to the side.
Nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom
Button up shirt with top four buttons removed: Check. Enough hair grease to oil the engine for 10,000 miles: Check. Large tube sock knot shoved into the front of pants: Check. Enough Aqua Velva dumped on body to cause birds to drop: Check. $1,000 day drug habit that no rehab center can fix: Check. OK, I'm ready to own one of these...
I dont even want the drugs, I just want to be able to afford a $1k daily drug habit.
your forgot having more chest hair than a woolly mammoth
@@RUclipsAIbot We'll call that the Hasselhoff.
Check ✅
Hmmm, no well-groomed moustache??!!...😂😂
That color is incredible. Always love seeing Ferraris in uncommon colors.
Yes! Amazing colour! 😍😍
I don't normally like green, but the deep emerald green like this is magnificient.
Ikr, I'm in love with that color. Perfect fit for it's gorgeous body!
There's an old Top Gear episode where Clarkson enters a Ferrari dealership and tries to order a green F355.
"The colour I've chosen is... g.... gr.... red."
:D
@@markhealey9409 I was thinking how I like seeing a Ferrari, especially a 308, in not red.
"If you waited 3 years, You could've had a Fiero"
Brilliant 👌
Based car tbh.
So many great lines.
The official car of hearing "Hey is that a kit car or the real thing" everytime you stop to put gas in it.
"What if Magnum PI was just Tom Selleck eating cooter" I AM DEAD BRO QUIT 😭😭
would have needed a rebrand to Magnum P.E.
My dad had one of these back in his bachelor days after his business accidentally became successful. From what I've heard, this car pairs with a degenerate 80's lifestyle as well as a rich cabernet, a beautifully veined gorgonzola and a mound of finest Peruvian.
Yes. Beige (Avorio) rocks hard, too.
Mr. Regular, the section about how this car enhances your persona - good or bad - really struck a chord. Great video.
I also really felt this. It's a super cool segment of the episode, which makes me happy to watch rcr
And how Corvette styling is about the Corvette, while a Pininfarina design draws attention to the driver. Spot on. Everybody always wants to know who’s behind the wheel of a damn Ferrari.
Amen, 16:53. I can listen to that passage over and over. Phenomenal writing.
I grew a mustache while watching this video
I grew chest hair while watching this video
I grew GRAY chest hair while watching this video
@@hossan442 😂
"Name me, if you can, a better feeling than the one you get when you’ve half a bottle of Chivas in the bag with a gram of coke up your nose and a teenage lovely pulling off her tube top in the next seat over while you’re doing a hundred miles an hour in a suburban side street" PJ O'Rourke delivering the Ferrari to LA for the Magnum PI show
Tavarish getting PTSD flashbacks going doorless with this car on Car Trek.
Omg ! XD
similar car although i believe his which is now the car wizard's is a GTB not a GTS
My Buddy from High School literally bought an ‘85 308 GTSi on my recommendation after I test-drove it on his behalf…
He loves it…and built a Glass Container Garage to house it..!
He loves it and I’d love one myself…but it’s not amazing to drive…still a cool grab, though…
I also still want a Mondial T…
They’re not that bad, seriously!
When it comes to the 308, everyone else thinks of Magnum, P.I.; I think of Christie Brinkley
Nicely played my friend.
Well done
And some people think of Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr.
It's a long way down that Holiday Road . . . . .
I think of the original transformers, ironically enough.
The 308 (and Pininfarina’s other designs of the era) being designed to accentuate the driver as opposed to drawing attention away from the driver and onto car itself is a really interesting takeaway. The low belt line and hood makes the cockpit look bigger and more important; all the lines pull to the center, and are simple, so as not to pull focus away; it makes the person seem more important. My eye naturally gravitates to the cabin, and it’s fascinating.
I feel like, while Pininfarina's designs are consistently phenomenal and have been for decades, it's also the fact that it's a ferrari. You don't just get one of those without having unlocked upper-middle class life or higher, and everyone wants to know who you are and what you do because they want to know how they can do it as well, and wouldn't you know it, a chance just technically pulled up next to them at the gas station to ask, to see if their cheat code applies to your version of the game as well... If they even want to share.
Seeing one of these in a situation where you actually can talk to the driver is just a rare moment when the rich person is both easily identifiable as a rich person, and close enough to you on neutral social ground for you to feel okay to ask about it.
Forgive me if I'm going out on a limb here, but I doubt I'm the only person who imagined, in some small section of their brain devoted to various pipe dreams, that they could meet the right rich person at the right time, and offer or say or be the right thing, and just like that, get drafted into the rich person's slipstream of wealth. I feel like there's some vestige of that lurking in every average person's brain, and seeing one of these park at the pump next to you is enough to activate it and make you shoot your shot, or at least gauge to see if you can, on some level.
That wheel and tire combo just perfectly filling up the wheel arches looks absolutely amazing
Would that be considered a square setup??
I think I learned more about Tom Selleck than the car. Im not complaining.
Fact: in 1998 I fixed the air conditioning on a 1985 308 GTSi quattrovalvole when one of my college professors found out that I was good with wiring and could read Italian.
Fact: The owner's manual has a complete set of schematics (in Italian) on the flyleaf.
Fact: the only car to date I've ever worked on that simultaneously had blade fuses, glass fuses, and ceramic fuses (think old VW) all in the same steel access panel under the passenger dash that could shatter your kneecaps if it ever dropped.
Fact: At 6'2" and 250 lbs and size 13 shoes at that time, I can absolutely vouch nobody over 5'7" could ever comfortably drive this car.
Fact: This did not stop me from test driving the car after fixing it and stopping at Taco Bell. Hint: the window opens very small; order burritos because a Nachos Bell Grande won't fit.
Unrelated fact: My 8th grade science teacher was a dead ringer for Tom Selleck. So much so he was occasionally mobbed in public. So much so that when K-mart came out with a designer fragrance named Selleck, they hired him to sit for the magazine ads (mustache-down, several hotties adjusting his tie and lapels) as the real Tom Selleck wasn't available.
In the mid 1980s I worked at a high tech company with a lot of IPO millionaires. The then engineering VP had a red 308 until it literally did a burnout; catching fire from some mechanical issue. Sadly our row of Porsches, Datsun Zs, Mazda RX7s (my 85 GSL-SE included) and Corvettes was greatly diminished.
"Beaver retriever" is golden. It made me laugh so hard that I pulled a Tommy Fencedemacker.
On a long enough timeline, everything becomes REGULAR.
Unlike all of the cookie cutter "super cars" of today, you know what this is just by looking at it, and that's the whole point of a super car, it's what you WANT to be seen in, and this, despite it being shit, is one to be seen in. Great review as always guys!
A truly beautiful car, no matter the color. Your prose about what this Ferrari can do for the driver is beautiful, too
Also: the P.I. in Magnum P.I. now stands for “Pussy Imbiber”
Poonani Inhaler
Pumpum Ingester
Peen installer
edit:
Inserter
@@aggnal2892installer is better, “come here Jim, we’re gonna install yer Peen!”
The official car of hearing the response "Oh..." When you tell a Ferrari enthusiast you own a 308.
But at least it’s not a Mondial
@@americanAlienBoy or a 208 😂
Honestly, as a Ferrari owner you could have had it much worse in the 80s. I met the owner of one, and he said the car is just fast enough to fully enjoy it on B roads and it's been very reliable since he owns it. Sure it's no 512 or a 288 GTO, but definitely a Ferrari nonetheless. Anything hitting almost 150 mph in 1980 is impressive really.
@@americanAlienBoy Or a 348, or a 400...
Is it frowned upon by Ferrari enthusiasts?
Never heard such a perfect summation of owning a collector car and how it relates to your character
I know we're due to be over the 80s any moment now, but that car will never not look effortlessly gorgeous.
Yes, I aware it's a car from the 70s, but it's indelibly linked to the 80s in pop culture for me.
This is the perfect color for these cars. You can keep your reds and blacks and yellows, this green (known as Pino Verde,) is Ferarri's best offering ever.
I truly love your videos. It's amazing how one can go from 12 year "boy humor" to immensely deep introspective and psychological analysis in just a few minutes. Very well done.
I love that we went from "this car is goddamn iconic" and "Magnum PI and his expertise in Eating Box" to "this car will either make you look like a douchebag, or make you look like the coolest depending" and "you will somehow find a way to love this car in spite of its flaws, especially when that engine noise hits".
New RCR dropping improves day instantly.
WELL DONE! I'm cracking up. This was a ton of fun, thanks for a fun time and great job on the video!
This is going to sound stupid, but after looking at this particular 308 throughout the video, especially the side views, it makes me think of the "Mach 5" a la Speed Racer. I loved the Mach 5 as a kid.
That spare tire is a Michelin TRX. R390 Metric wheels like the 1984 Ford Mustang GT w TRX pakage.
Magnum UTI
I always want to send these vids to my family, because they’re genuinely interesting and informative, but there’s always parts like 3:42 that make that impractical lol
Thanks RCR.
I always wanted one of these in jet black with an automatic transmission. Yes, I know that is considered sacrilege but when you have the knee issues I have, drop it in drive and go is the rule of life. Love the GTS 308!
There's a guy in Bethlehem,PA who dailys one of these. Insane.
I have seen the red one here in the lehigh valley pretty often in all kinds of weather, there is also a black one I see once in awhile. I believe the owner restored it and owns a repair garage on the west end of Allentown...... Pretty neat cars I do a double take when I see one of them around here in traffic.....amongst the rusted Chevy Cobalts, loud Hondas and smoking Ram 1500s it sticks out ljke a sore thumb. . . its kinda like seeing an A list celebrity hanging out at the local dive bar.😅🤣😂
I saw a red one in Montana with a ski rack, fog lights, and snow tires with ski area stickers from all over the country. Fuckin legend. PA plates.
Mario Andretti? Lol
@@TheDumpbin Good possibility its him......not sure if he still has his hose in the Nazareth area. I know the grandson Marco lived near here too.
@@bigtopmedia They used to rally with 308s in Group 4
This car is beautiful, especially with this green paintjob. Just so perfectly proportioned.
MAGNUM PI, for those of a certain vintage.
I want one of these
I've wanted a 308/328 for so many years. I almost bought one for $30,000 until I learned the only service center nearby is in Atlanta and I'd spend as much in a year servicing it as I did on the car
Not if you do the work yourself. Only $20,000
That’s a highly incorrect statement to make. I bought one in 2018 and the only thing I have spent on it was money for a new battery. That’s it. 😂 it’s a carb 79’. I adore it.
Oh I forget ^^ I spent about $130 on doing an oil change on it too with Motul oil and a $40 oil filter. But since the car is so low I had to buy an extra low jack for it to get the car up in the air. But that’s it.
“Hi Fellas!”
Magnum P.E.
I always wanted a 308. When I looked at one in person though, and realized it was full of issues, couldn't fit groceries, and couldn't fit me, I looked around and found a 350z convertible. After I year of ownership, I can confirm that the Z actually is what the 308 looks like it is.
“Like a good suite I looking at it on me than actually wearing it…..” well said.
I own a 13 SL550….love it! BUT I drive my 08 Tundra all the time .
I LOVE that paint color! Looks so good in the sun!
A neighbor down the street from me had one of these (yup, red like Selleck's), a Testarossa, a Delorean, two Porsches, a Jeep FC, and a first gen Bronco (his daily). Not over the course of my childhood, I mean CONCURRENTLY.
Just when I was starting to think he'd sold one of the cars off (he kept the Ferraris in the garage and the Bronco and his wife's Lexus RX in the driveway, the rest in storage elsewhere), I'd see him driving that one around. He purportedly won the Delorean in a raffle or something, but I have no idea where he got the money for the rest of them. None of them were brand-new, but still, he was a retired school teacher!
I'm having flashbacks to the Lotus Christmas episode. The big 1970s BUSH could only be pictured being eaten by a tom celic type
He'd have to be careful his Mustache didn't get tangled up
Love the droopy Dumbo side mirror gotta love that great quality
I love driving my '85 308 QV. It's true that it does not handle like a modern car. But it drives nicely. It's comfortable, even if a bit awkward. It sounds amazing. It provides a feedback that I can't really describe. The motor is just good and engaging with it via the shifter is just happiness defined. I have a '91 NSX, and there is no doubt it is the better car, but it does not provide quite the same sensation that the 308 does while driving.
I helped my grandfather sell his Euro 85 308GTSi a couple years ago. I didn't get to drive it more than around the driveway, but I can totally see what you are getting at. At idle, that mechanically injected engine made sounds that were just special. It certainly wasn't the most ergonomic driving position but it worked. Overall it just felt special to be in, a fabulous design mated to an emotional and characterful drivetrain.
Enjoy yours!
I didn't expect a Nick Mullen riff about Magnum PI and muff diving.
Bravo, Mr.Regular! Beautifully put and very apropos!
Videos like this aren’t the reason I subscribed, but they’re the reason I stay. Excellent car and excellent writing.
One of my dream ones. Augh it's so mint, so analog, so pure.
Great review i love seeing these interesting cars come up for review occasionally i cant wait for rcr Australia
Funny video ,but love Ferrari 308's and Ferrai sportscars in general. Visited the Ferrari factory in 1984 and saw the new Testa Rossa and the 288gto which is the turbocharged steroidal and modified 308 with 400 hp out a 174 cubic inch motor , truly was one of the most beautiful cars i have ever seen. keep on doing these funny reviews as they truly make my day.
Saying the car is built for Nick is HILARIOUS. I love their podcast.
Today review was some tough love man, being wholesome with a Ferrari is unexpected af, great video!
This is probably the best episode thus far. Well done. 308 = Transparency
Had the pleasure of driving one while working a valet shift last month, and couldn’t figure out the push down reverse, it idled perfect no gas needed to slowly traverse the lot!
Wow what an unexpected surprise for a valet!!!
The lights remind me of Good Cop/Bad Cop from The Lego Movie
I love the 308, just a absolutely beautiful car. I'm a sucker for 80s wedges and boxy shapes. Also Fiero reference! I'm about to take my 86 GT for a spin after watching this! 😊
Someone brought a 328 GTS to a local car meet last summer. The guy and his friends did a great job restoring it and looked brand new.
One of the best looking cars ever made. There's no mistaking that for anything else but a sports car. It's a shitbox that requires an engine rebuild every time you just think about driving it, but it's a fantastic looking and sounding pieces of automotive art.
Also I don't think that's an unreasonable request for Tom. Just ask him politely and I'm confident he'll oblige.
I'll have to disagree that this was the only game in town during the early 80s. You had the 911, the Countach (which rhymes with poon pop, which could be either a sexual act or a flavor of an adult ice cream bar) and don't forget Lotus l
Came for the Ferrari, stayed for the Tom Selleck muff diving.
Another RCR masterpiece. You nailed it.
Your segue from the Flintstone's "Dino the Dinosaur" to the Ferrari Dino is pure inspired brilliance!
Thanks for the great video!
Good video as usual!
What a car and what a review.
Tom will be proud while chowing down on some 🦫.
I am so not into Ferraris, but this gets me excited.
I love the 80s posh Louis Winthorpe III voice
I'm a plumber in a city containing some fairly wealthy citizens and have worked in alot of thier homes.
I had a long-time customer that owned a Dino and I think he would agree with your statement about these cars being better to look at versus to drive. The dining room shared a glass wall with the garage, allowing the Dino to be seen from inside the house. Awesome idea or vulgar vanity? You be the judge.
I'm proud of you. That was a very well written story.
Ferrari 308, the car that made you.... The man, probably a sports/rock star in 1981. I had the privilege of knowing someone who had the grand daddy during those days. Justin's dad had a 512. BB. These were space ships when I was young. The Contact wAs God. But these were not far behind.
Nice Dino transition there.
Now I'm going to pay attention to Magnum driving that car. I've discovered that any time David Hasselhoff jumped into KITT and took off there was already a stunt guy with a 2nd steering wheel chain linked, or if Michael was driving and not "KITT", there was a tiny round steering wheel in place.
That tom selleck show would be fantastic 10/10 lol
Excellent, thank you!
This is no longer a channel for regular cars. It's something else. You should create a spin-off channel for stuff like this and call it something else.
I know Magnum P.I. is the star of everything right now, since there's a 308 on screen, but to me, when I see that Ferrari wedge shape, all I can think is, "I love you baby, and if it's quite alright, I need you baby, to warm the lonely night..."
You had me at hospice care, rubber diaper lol!
Valve cover gaskets are real fun on these... and yes it will still leak afterwards 👍
I didn't know you were family. Yessssss! Let's date.
And I still want a 308/328 even after watching this.
8:14 he looks like he's about to drop DraculaFlow 5
I’m not even into cars but I found this channel and like it
The Fuel Cap Diaper is actually a good idea. Why didn't more Companies do that?
Watching a new RCR video in mixed company is such a risk
That Matteo Lane reference was GOLD lmao
that guy looks just like SavageGeese
Some actual good advice in this one
An "annoying, shaking, falling apart mess of drunkenly assembled parts" that reels me back in a few seconds at a time is an apt description of my 84 RX-7. I'm a young dirtbag of an owner, so some of it is surely my own doing (or lack thereof), but boy does every ride start with some anxiousness. Sometimes I think I'd be better off with some stable transportation, but then I think of summer moments of high RPM shenanigans with a buddy.
Same when I got my mr2 aw11. Car didn't run for 20 years. Once I figured out what was wrong. I hobbled it together and took it to the highway in the most misguided decision of my life. (I did get plates tho but a little too early.)
There are few engines that can rival the 4age when in terms of sound.
Anyone notice the passenger side mirror is limp but the driver side is stiff?
This would have been a perfect candidate for "Sooooooo Fancy!!!!!!!!"
That car is absolutely gorgeous!!
Man...I remember my first car show/auction. There was a 79 308ts on the block that was in practically perfect condition wit 58,000 miles on it. I passed it up and ended up losing bids on a Toyota Pickup, a 3000GT, and a few Jeeps. Didn't even bid on the Ferrari, because..well...Ferrari. Didn't think I had a prayer in the first place, and I had zero experience actually working on and pricing exotics. The thing sold for $19,000....well within my budget. I was inconsolable for weeks. I worked at a Dodge dealership at the time in the Service Dept. shagging cars. One day I ended up talking to my friend Mike who used to be a technician at Ferrari of Denver. He said he really liked working on all the exotics that came through, but while the individual jobs paid bank there just wasn't enough volume to really make a living at it compared to the high volume cheap jobs fixing Rams and Caravans. First question he asked when I said I could have got that Ferrari 308ts in perfect Ferrari red and matte chrome rims with tan leather... I haven't been that instantly in love with a car till I had a shot at a DeTomasso Pantera in neon blue with black interior (Literally the one from that episode in Breaking Bad when Gus poisons everyone down in Mexico.) Was down in Rio Rancho on a job interview. Told myself if I got the job I'd get that car and eat ramen for a year if I had to. Ok ramble much? Anyways... First question he asked was "How many miles were on it?" I said 28,000. "Well there's why it was so cheap. Bet you anything it hasn't had it's 60K service yet." Apparently the major services on 308's require re-shimming the valves and all kinds of other complicated stuff that can run $12,000 or more! All the $$$ I'd have saved buying a cheap Ferrari would go away the minute I rolled it into the service drive. Yikes!! I'll stick with the Pantera lol.
If you can’t afford a lousy $12 grand you don’t belong in a Ferrari. I also bet you it’s gone up in value way more than the $12 grand you may have had to spend on a major service.
I bought one and at its doubled in value from what I paid for it. A 16,000 mile 79 red on tan. I love it I will be buried in it. A Tomaso so it’s a kit car with a ford mustang engine in it right ? 🤷🏼♂️🤣🤣
@@jasonknight5863 It's not the price, it's the model. Shelling that out for a 308 is like dating a hottie that can't cook, or a high dollar escort with no benefits just to say you got with a hot chick. I'd rather have the Pantera than the 308. Ferrari's got looks, but it's as high maintenance and low performance as any hot chic I ever dated. If I'm dropping 5 digits on a standard maintenance, I'd like a 0-60 in less than a week. I can stomach the price if it's worth it. Sounds to me like you'd rather pay to be kicked in the nuts just to say you own a Ferrari. Gimme the Versace Mustang over the discount Italian any day.
Never heard of magnum PI but thoroughly enjoyed where this review went.
Oh, I love it. It's green! (And I fit fine in those. I kinda wonder how Tom Selleck did, though, now that you mention it. Kinda thought he was tall. )
Do the turn signals just not work, or will turning them on cause the car to go up in flames?
To the General Public (i.e., non-car guys/girls), this is THE Ferrari, malaise-era non-performance aside.
It’s still the best-looking car (as you say, from any angle) they ever built, 40-something years later. In the daytime. When you don’t need the headlights on.
Che Bella (*chef’s kiss*)
I didn't even know Tom Selleck was a fan of taking the ol tuna boat to mustache town. This is the kind of journalism I can get behind. Or, something like that.
Sometimes I hear about guys complaining about not being tall and they're upset about this. Then I notice that most car reviewers like Mr. Regular are 6ft. or taller and complain about not being able to fit into any of the fun cars. I'm 5'8". Being tall sounds like it's annoying. I think 5'6" would be ideal for me.
The Fiero bit is wrong, it wasn’t even made until ‘84. Miami Vice had 2 fake Ferraris you may be conflating. They had the original Daytona, which was a Corvette, a real Testarossa and a fake Testarossa, which was based on a Pantera.
Also, the Dino 246 was ‘67-‘74.