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Valuation · Ferrari · F106 · 1982-85

Ferrari 308 GTS Quattrovalvole

2.9L NA V8 · 176 kW / 261 Nm · 5sp manual · RWD
AVOIDRated within the over $100k band · 97 of 104 at this money
Research estimate
$182,500
Must gain each year to break even
+8.0%
The projection does not clear it, and nor does most of the library.
CarQuant score
53/100
Scored against the over $100k band, not the whole library
Evidence grade
Asks only
Advertisements only; an ask is not a transaction
$182,500
$111,446 lowhigh $254,546
Asking prices only, no recorded sale
No Australian sale, published or otherwise. The three local asking prices that exist are all pre-Quattrovalvole carburettor cars, a dearer variant, and the nearest auction lot was a fibreglass dry-sump 308 that did not sell.
Measured across this library, a value with no Australian result behind it runs high about seven times in ten, by a median of ten per cent. Read this one as a ceiling rather than a midpoint.

Looking at a 308 for sale?

Put in the asking price and the odometer reading. You will see what this model should make at that reading.

Should make, typical example
$182,500
At about 45,000 km. Enter an asking price to compare.

No Australian sale stands behind this value, so treat the figure as indicative.

We will not sell a report on this car. The check above stays free.

Price history

Today $182,500 · modelled median at five years $183,354
Solid line: the value this library has carriedDashed from 2026: modelled · even money $145,530 to $220,801
The green band is the even-money range and the one to plan on: half of outcomes land inside it. The pale band behind it bounds eight in ten ($111,446 to $254,546). The path is this model's own: it starts along the momentum of its recorded history and bends toward its projected median as the horizon lengthens, so no two cars share a future curve.

The verdict

The numbers argue against it. Scores 53/100, ranking 97 of 104 in the over $100k band. Ownership economics is the strongest input, liquidity the weakest.
Running it costs about $14,270 a year (7.8% of value), which is what the economics score measures. All in, including the projected value change, it is $16,507 a year.
The model's five year median is $183,354, a +0.5% move, with the tenth percentile at $111,446.
Value is research, not a measurement. Treat the level as indicative and the structure as the analysis.
Evidence
Asks only0 recorded sales
Off its peak
-35%
Value band
wide
An external source, but no itemised transactions. Indicative only.
Scored against every recent Australian sale this library holds, half its values land within 11.2 per cent of the price paid and the rest miss by more, in either direction. Projections are therefore damped toward flat in proportion to how little is known, and the plausible band is never narrower than the error the model is known to make.
Short term (1-5 years)$16,507 a year all in, +0.5% median value move
Long term (10-15 years)Scarcity case already formed
Negotiate from$182,500

Recorded sales

Every recorded observation, and when
3 rows on record
$429k$290k$151k
2027
the value this record published, year by yearnow $183kasking
Every row, with its price and note (3) ↓
Aug 2026Autotrader AU / CarsGuide$398,999Asking
ASKING. Dealer ask, 1976 308 GTB, 105,025km. Pre-QV carburettor car and a strong outlier on the kilometres; the research file says explicitly not to use it as a comparable.
Aug 2026Autotrader AU / CarsGuide$289,990Asking
ASKING. Dealer ask, 1977 308 GTB, 11,278km. Pre-QV carburettor coupe, a dearer variant than the QV.
Aug 2026Autotrader AU / CarsGuide$248,980Asking
ASKING. Dealer ask, 1980 308 GTS, 74,157km. Pre-QV carburettor targa, which sits above a QV - not like-for-like.
0 completed Australian sales of 3 rows. Rows marked asking, no sale, or context are shown for honesty but do not count toward the evidence grade: an ask is not a transaction, a pass-in is a refusal, and a provenance or overseas result does not price the ordinary local car. The badge on every row is computed by the same rule as the grade, so the two cannot drift apart.

Score breakdown

Against the over $100k band median
104 cars in band · ink tick marks the median
Ownership economics30% of total
65/100-4
Scarcity25% of total
63/100-2
Demand durability20% of total
56/100-22
Liquidity15% of total
26/100-6
Risk resilience10% of total
26/100-8
Sub-scores run 0-100 before weighting; the weighted total is 53/100. Medians are computed live from the 104 cars currently in the over $100k band, so this picture moves when the library does.
The working behind each factor: baseline and drivers ↓
Ownership economics30% weight
65/100
Baseline84 pts
− 7.8% of value a year to run-19 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)65 pts
Scarcity25% weight
63/100
Baseline20 pts
+ 55 survivors estimated in Australia+43 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)63 pts
Demand durability20% weight
56/100
Baseline52 pts
+ The cheapest way into the shape the marque is remembered by+10 pts
− Four-valve cars still lag the carburettor and dry-sump 308s badly-12 pts
+ A targa roof and 176kW make it a car that can actually be used+6 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)56 pts
Liquidity15% weight
26/100
Baseline12 pts
+ 120 days on market+8 pts
+ 4 sales a year+6 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)26 pts
Risk resilience10% weight
26/100
Baseline50 pts
− Rust in the sills, valance, battery tray and targa channel is a $19,000 finding-14 pts
− Concessional import keeps local supply elastic and caps any Australian premium-8 pts
+ The belts change with the engine in the car, unlike every later mid-engine V8+10 pts
− Asking prices only, and an ask is not a sale-12 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)26 pts
Model output, not advice or a valuation. Verify independently before acting.

What it costs to own · about 2,500 km a year

Annual cost of access, excl. fuel
$14,270a year
Share of value per year
7.8%
Scheduled servicing$3,21022%
Tyres, annualised$2,19015%
Registration and CTP$1,71012%
Insurance$4,07029%
Sinking fund (failure table)$3,09022%
All-in annualised (a different number)
Purchase (model value plus duty)$189,800
Running costs × 5 years$71,350
Median exit, net of selling cost$178,614
All-in annualised over 5 years$16,507/yr
Share of value per year9.0%
Cost of access is what the car costs to run. All-in annualised adds depreciation, duty and selling costs across a five year hold. They answer different questions and are labelled separately for that reason.
Break-even appreciation, 5 year hold
8.0%a year, only to get the money back
This library projects
+0.1%a year
The projection falls 7.9 points a year short of the hurdle. On these assumptions this car is a cost, not an asset, which can be an entirely rational thing to buy but should be bought knowing it.
Purchase$182,500
Stamp duty$7,300
Running costs x 5 years$71,350
Selling cost at exit, 2.6% of the salescales with price
Sale price needed at +5 years$268,114
Storage
Bought at
No forecast is used to compute the hurdle. It is the purchase, the duty, any premium and 5 years of running cost, grossed up for the cost of selling and spread back over the hold. The projection it is measured against is the weakest number in this product and is drawn that way in the chart above. Transport, finance and any restoration spend sit outside it.

Specification

Engine2.9L NA V8
Power / torque176 kW / 261 Nm
0-100 km/h6.5 s
Transmission5sp manual
DriveRWD
Kerb weight1,385 kg
Built worldwide3,790
Delivered to AustraliaNot established
Effective AU survivors55
Australian sales / year4
Typical days on market120 days
Launch priceNot established

What moves the price on this model

Colour hierarchy
Original paint in a factory colour, unresprayed+7%
Rosso Corsa, the colour the model is remembered in+5%
Resprayed, or a colour change from the build sheet-8%
Options
Documented rust-free sills, valance, battery tray and targa channel+14%
Belts, tensioners and water pump in date with dated invoices+9%
GTB berlinetta rather than this targa+20%
Odometer sensitivity±1.9% per 10,000 km vs 45,000 km
Applied on top of these

Condition, history, originality, ownership, delivery and modification multipliers apply to every car in the library. They are applied automatically when an advertisement is analysed, and the schedule is set out once, on the analyser page.

Projected value in five years

Projected value at five years
$183,354
+0.5% on today
The model's figure. Today it is $182,500.
Even odds it lands between $145,530 and $220,801.
$111,446 lowhigh $254,546
The shaded range is even money and 52% wide; the outer figures bound eight outcomes in ten. Band width follows the evidence - a model with a tight measured record carries a tight band.
A weaker five year outlook than 61% of the library.
-26.6% weakest projected move in the librarystrongest +73.1%
Five-year cost of ownership
Value change alone: +$854 across five years.
Running costs over the same period: $71,350.
Duty and expected selling costs: $12,040.
Net cost of five years of ownership: $82,535, or $16,507 a year.
The projected value rise offsets part of the running cost. It does not make the car free to own.

The case for and against

The case for

Built before 1 January 1989, so a buyer who does not like the Australian price can land one himself, and that keeps this the most honestly priced Ferrari in the segment. It is also the cheapest V8 Ferrari to keep honest, because the cambelts come out with the engine still in the car.

The case against

The Quattrovalvole has been left behind by the carburettor and dry-sump cars it shares a shape with, and that gap has widened rather than closed. Rust in the sills, valance, battery tray and targa channel is a $19,000 job, and nothing in this country has been recorded selling to test the figure.

Known faults and risks

Risk 1Rust in the sills, front valance, battery tray and the targa channel
Risk 2Quattrovalvole cars are advertised alongside dearer carburettor 308s and confused with them
Risk 3Concessional import caps local prices at world money plus landing costs
Rust in sills, front valance, battery tray and the targa channel$19,000
Sticky interior plastics and shrunken dash, retrim$6,500
Cambelt, tensioners and water pump overdue, or full major$6,250
Tired suspension bushes and dampers$5,500
Failed air-conditioning, R12 conversion$4,000
K-Jetronic fuelling: warm-up regulator, accumulator, injector seals$3,750

Similar cars, and what they cost to run

Evidence behind this valueAsks only · 0 recorded sales
Carried value
$182,500
Historical price
2016 · $282,9002026 · $182,500
Asks only
An external source, but no itemised transactions. Indicative only.
Nothing in this segment has an Australian transaction behind it, and this is the car where that matters least

Every publicly reachable Australian auction archive was searched and no 308 of any specification appears in one. The value here is built from Australian asking prices and world money, and it is graded accordingly.

Read the rest of the evidence notes (4 more)
The Quattrovalvole is the one car in this tranche where that is nearly acceptable

It was manufactured before 1 January 1989, so it still qualifies for concessional entry under the Road Vehicle Standards Act. Anyone who does not like the local price can land a car for the world price plus roughly $15,000 to $25,000 of freight, duty, GST and compliance. That arbitrage caps the Australian premium, which is why a figure anchored offshore is defensible on this model and on almost nothing else here.

The three local asks are all the wrong car

A 1980 GTS at $248,980, a 1977 GTB at $289,990 and a 1976 GTB at $398,999 on 105,025 kilometres are carburettor cars - an earlier and dearer variant - and the research itself says the last of them is an outlier not to be used as a comparable. The nearest auction evidence is a 1976 fibreglass dry-sump GTB offered at Donington in June 2026 against a $290,000 to $330,000 estimate. It did not sell.

The gap to the early cars is the investment case and the warning at once

Carburettor and dry-sump cars have run and the four-valve cars have not, so the discount is larger now than it was five years ago; a GTB coupe is worth 15 to 25 per cent over this targa, and 748 of them were built against 3,042 targas.

The belts are the cheapest of any V8 Ferrari

Because they can be changed without dropping the engine - $3,500 to $6,000, or $6,000 to $9,000 for a full major with clearances. An out-of-date belt on an unknown car still costs $12,000 to $20,000 off the price, which is more than the job. That is a buyer pricing the possibility of a top-end, not the labour.

What we will not sell you
We will not price a Ferrari 308 against an advertisement.

No Australian transaction stands behind this value. A spec-adjusted figure built on it would look precise and would not be, so the report is refused instead of sold with a caveat. That goes for this car and 87 others. Everything above is free and stays free.

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