Dino 206 S

The (Ferrari) Dino 206 S is a rear mid engine sports prototype produced by Ferrari in 1966–1967 under the Dino marque with the 2 litre V6 engine named after Enzo Ferrari's late son. Ferrari intended to build and sell at least fifty examples for homologation by the CSI in the Group 4 Sportscar category, 2 litre class. While a direct competitor, the new Porsche 906, was already homologated by May 1966 during the ongoing 1966 World Sportscar Championship, only 18 Dino 206S were made until 1967, thus the S for Sportscar never was earned.

Despite being designed for sale at a relatively affordable price, and with space to carry a spare wheel and luggage and other requirements of sportscar rules, and even could be made road legal, the car had to compete in the less regulated Prototype classes instead, 2.0-litre or occasionally over 2.0-litre (then as 246S), where it soon met improved Porsche 906 and its evolution Porsche 910, as well as many other brands. In spite of this handicap the Dino 206S scored three P 2.0 class wins in the middle of the 1966 World Sportscar Championship and finished second in the Up to 2000cc classes of the International Manufacturers Championship, as did the V12 Ferrari P siblings Over 2000cc .

The 206 S was the last of the Dino sports racing cars and simultaneously the most produced.

The Dino 206 S had two immediate predecessors. The first was the 1965 Dino 166 P that was the first sports prototype model for the Dino marque and previewed the new rear-engined chassis and revised bodywork. The other, 206 SP, was a starting point for the final 65° DOHC race engine evolution. The Group 4 Sportscar homologation process was only completed by Ferrari in 1966 for the range of 3.3 litre V12 Ferrari 250 LM that had been produced in 1964, never for the Dino 206s, but again years later for the Ferrari 512S.

The first example of the 206 S model range, s/n 0842, was converted from the 166 P that did not participate in any races. Second example, s/n 0852, still shared the chassis number sequence with Ferrari race cars and was subsequently renumbered as s/n 002, the first in Dino race car sequence.

The 206 S was bodied by Piero Drogo's Carrozzeria Sports Cars in the same style as before, evoking bigger Ferrari prototype cars. The majority were bodied in a spyder style with a roll-bar behind the driver. Only three examples were originally created as fully closed berlinettas. A handful of cars were later rebodied as open barchettas.

One of the Dino 206 S chassis was used for the Ferrari 212 E Montagna, a uniquely-engined, one-off hillclimb-oriented sports car.

In 1967, at the Frankfurt Auto Show, Pininfarina presented a concept car based on the penultimate 206 S chassis, the Dino Berlinetta Competizione. It was designed by Paolo Martin, and was his first design for the Turin-based studio.