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Ferrari Dino 246 GT Rosso Dino Norev 1:18

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Ferrari Dino 246 GT Rosso Dino Norev 1:18 187801 Diecast
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Norev's 1:18 diecast Ferrari Dino 246 GT brings the 1968 V6 coupe to the shelf in Rosso Dino, with doors and bonnet that open to show off Pininfarina's cabin design and the mid-mounted V6 beneath the rear decklid. Named for Enzo Ferrari's son and originally sold without a Ferrari badge, the Dino remains one of Maranello's most quietly significant road cars. A diecast essential for any Ferrari road car chronology.
Ferrari Dino 246 GT Rosso Dino Norev 1:18
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Car Brand
Ferrari
Model Manufacturer
Norev
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
New Model
SKU
187801
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About the Ferrari Dino 246 GT Rosso Dino Norev 1:18

TL;DR: Norev's 1:18 diecast Ferrari Dino 246 GT in Rosso Dino reproduces the 1968 V6 coupe that originally carried no Ferrari badge at all, its doors and bonnet opening to reveal Pininfarina's cabin and the mid-mounted engine. A diecast anchor for any Maranello road car chronology.

Enzo Ferrari named the Dino after his son Alfredino, and the 246 GT that followed was deliberately sold without a Ferrari badge at all, wearing only the Dino name on its nose. That decision still shapes how collectors talk about this car more than fifty years later.

Norev's Diecast Build and the Dino's Opening Doors

Lifted from its box, the Dino's zinc alloy body carries the dense, settled weight that diecast construction delivers and resin cannot quite match at this price point. The doors and bonnet both open, a genuine feature rather than a gimmick on a car whose mid-mounted V6 and compact cabin reward a proper look underneath. The hinges hold their position without flopping shut or standing stiffly open, letting the engine cover stay raised while a collector examines the detailing beneath. Rosso Dino is a deliberately different shade from Ferrari's familiar Rosso Corsa, carrying more of a brick-red warmth than the brighter racing red most people associate with the marque, and Norev's paintwork captures that distinction rather than defaulting to a generic Ferrari red. Pininfarina's low, curved glasshouse and the Dino's famous flying buttresses either side of the rear window are reproduced with clean, consistent panel gaps around the opening sections, and the louvred rear deck sits correctly recessed rather than looking bolted on. Chrome window surrounds and the distinctive round tail lights carry separated, crisp highlights. Inside, the cabin shows a simplified but legible dashboard and the low-set bucket seats that defined the real car's driving position, visible properly only because the doors genuinely swing open.

The Car That Wasn't Officially a Ferrari

The Dino 246 GT grew out of Ferrari's need to homologate a small-displacement V6 for Formula 2 racing, a programme the company named after Enzo's son Alfredo, known to everyone as Dino, who had worked on the engine's development before his early death. Rather than badge the resulting road car as a Ferrari, the company sold it under the standalone Dino marque, reasoning that a genuine Ferrari needed a V12 and that a V6, however capable, didn't qualify by the standards the brand had built its name on. Pininfarina styled the body and Scaglietti built it, giving the Dino proportions that owed more to contemporary racing prototypes than to any Ferrari road car that preceded it, with the engine mounted transversely behind the cabin rather than up front. That mid-engine layout made the Dino a genuine technical departure for the brand, previewing a configuration Ferrari would later use across its most important road cars. History has been kinder to the Dino than its original marketing ever was, now recognised as one of the best-balanced sports cars Maranello ever produced, badge or no badge.

Where the Dino Sits in a Ferrari Collection

Displayed alongside later mid-engined Ferraris, the Dino makes the case for itself as the car that started that layout at Maranello, a useful anchor point for anyone building a road car chronology by configuration rather than just by era. At roughly 24 centimetres, the 1:18 scale gives Pininfarina's curves proper room to read, somewhere a smaller casting would compress the flying buttresses into an afterthought. Norev's diecast sits at an accessible mid-tier price well below hand-built resin interpretations of the same car, making the opening doors and considered paintwork genuinely good value. For a V6 that never wore the badge it arguably deserved, that's a fitting way to be remembered.

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