Launched at the 1999 Geneva Motor Show and produced until 2005, the 360 Modena was the successor to the F355 and the first Ferrari road car built on an all-aluminium spaceframe — co-developed with Alcoa and assembled at Maranello. Power came from a new 3.6-litre F131 V8, naturally aspirated and producing 400 hp at 8,500 rpm, driving the rear wheels through either a six-speed open-gate manual or the F1 single-clutch automated paddle-shift gearbox.
The range expanded over the following six years to include the 360 Spider convertible (2000), the lighter and more focused 360 Challenge Stradale (2003, 425 hp and around 110 kg lighter), and the limited-production 360 Barchetta presentation car. Approximately 17,000 360 Modenas, 7,500 Spiders and 1,288 Challenge Stradales were produced. The 360 is now widely regarded as one of the most usable modern Ferraris and the entry point into serious mid-engined Ferrari collecting.
The 360 Modena is the bridge between the analogue F355 and the modern, electronics-led F430 and 458. It was the first Ferrari designed around an aluminium spaceframe — a structural choice that would define every mid-engined V8 Ferrari that followed — and the first to be widely sold with paddle-shift gearbox technology derived directly from the F1 cars. The manual-gearbox coupes and the Challenge Stradale anchor the long-term collector narrative; the Modena coupe more broadly remains one of the most accessible ways into Ferrari ownership.
