The F355 is widely treated as the soul of the analog Ferrari era — a five-valve V8 wailing to 8,500 rpm, an open-gate six-speed manual that can break wrists when used badly, and a Pininfarina silhouette that aerodynamics engineers had to stop themselves from disrupting.

The gateway analog Ferrari — and the shape that has been on more bedroom walls than any Ferrari except possibly the F40.

The variant of consequence is the manual Berlinetta — not the Targa, not the Spider, and absolutely not the F1 paddle-shifted variant which has aged poorly in the market. Roughly 3,000 to 3,500 manual Berlinettas built across the model's life.