A Dutch firm turned the Ferrari 308 into the rally car Enzo always wanted
The Lancia Integrale specialists have aimed their talents at Maranello
A Dutch specialist better known for Lancia Delta Integrales has built something special: a Ferrari 308 reimagined as a road-legal tribute to the Michelotto Group 4 rally car, the competition 308 developed in period with Enzo Ferrari's blessing. It is called the Maturo 308 Stradale, and it is exactly the kind of left-field restomod that makes the scene exciting.
The car it pays tribute to
In the late 1970s, Giuliano Michelotto turned the Ferrari 308 into a genuine Group 4 rally and competition car, a project carried out with Enzo Ferrari's backing. It is one of the more overlooked chapters of Ferrari's motorsport history, and it is exactly the car Maturo set out to honour. The Stradale takes that competition spirit and reinterprets it as a modern, road-usable machine rather than a museum-piece replica.
Who builds it
Maturo Competition Cars is a Dutch firm with a deep background in historic Italian rally machinery, best known for building, maintaining and racing Lancia Delta Integrales and Lancia 037s. That rally pedigree matters here: this is not a styling house adding wide arches to a Ferrari, it is a team that genuinely understands how a competition car should behave. Every finished 308 Stradale is personally tested and signed off by former WRC driver Kevin Abbring.
What is underneath
Each car starts as an original Ferrari 308 donor, which buyers must supply themselves at a cost of roughly €80,000, and crucially the build preserves the original chassis number. The 2.9-litre V8 is fully rebuilt with revised camshafts, modern ignition and a custom Capristo exhaust, lifting output to up to 400 hp from the 255 hp of the original carburetted engine. It drives through a new five-speed manual with stronger internals, shorter ratios and a limited-slip differential, all operated through a classic open-gate shifter.
The body gains hand-formed wider arches inspired by the original rally car, while the structure is stiffened with an integrated roll cage and more than 150 reinforcement welds. Electronically adjustable Tractive dampers let the car switch between a refined GT setup and a sharp rally-style configuration at the push of a button. Inside, carbon fibre, anodised aluminium and Alcantara replace the 308's original plastics.
Price and exclusivity
The Maturo 308 Stradale is a limited-run build priced at €425,000 excluding VAT and the donor car. Add the roughly €80,000 for a suitable 308 and the relevant taxes, and this becomes a seriously expensive way to own a 308, but then it is also a fundamentally different car from the one that rolled out of Maranello in period.
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What makes this restomod convincing is who built it. Plenty of companies will widen a 308's arches and call it a tribute, but Maturo has spent years actually rallying historic Italian machinery, and having a WRC driver sign off every car is the kind of detail that separates a genuine driver's tool from a show pony. Reviving the Enzo-era Michelotto 308, one of Ferrari's forgotten competition stories, is also a wonderfully knowing choice. At well over half a million euros all-in it is far from cheap, but a hand-built, rally-bred 308 with a preserved chassis number was never going to be. This is a proper piece of work from a country that knows its way around a special stage.
