This future feature story is a fresh shoot from last month, another comparo and one that should run in the one of the next few issues of Sports & Exotic Car.
It’s a battle of battle of mid-engine, six-cylinder 1970s sports cars pitting the expensive, exotic Dino against the thoroughly Germanic  Porsche 914/6. Is almost twice the power worth four times the price?
The Dino is essentially pure sex. Piero Ferrari is on record as saying this is the best design that ever came from Maranello, and it’s hard to argue. It’s Sophia Loren in sheetmetal, and in this chairs-and-flares model, there’s absolutely nothing that turns heads like it.
Two downsides to mid-engine cars: Polar moment of inertia, and you can’t see the engine.
Even the Dino’s Campy wheel says sex, in a geeky kind of way.
The 914/6, with its 911 engine, is…not sexy. More, it looks just like a four-banger 914. So imagine our surprise when owner Todd Fischer told us that with 125hp, it gets to 60 in 8.7 seconds. That’s one advantage of a 2,195-pound weight. The other is the handling.
Porsche’s cast magnesium Mahle wheel isn’t sexy, but then, at nine pounds per, it isn’t much of anything, aside from the lightest wheel they ever made.
The sound is incredibly aggressive, raspy and satisfying.
Lee Miller’s 1974 Dino can get away from the 1970 914/6 on a straight, but Todd catches up with him in the twisties, every time.
They’ve both got style and substance, and cool c-pillars. In the end, it’s a question of attitude–and money.
On base: Cyclone vs. Vette
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