CT Poll: Retro Ferrari 246 GT Dino Or Modern 458 Italia?

If you've got even a hint of long-chain carbon compound flowing through your veins, you'll have wasted spent a great deal of time lining up your dream garage. Perhaps last week's duo - Toyota's AE and GT86 - are in it, though we suspect your horizons stretch even further.

With a budget that laughs in the face of austerity measures, and enough garage space to make Jay Leno weep into his denim hankie, you've got the chance to put either a classic Ferrari 246 GT Dino or a modern F458 Italia on your polished garage floor.

Of course, with plenty of cash to splash you could buy both, but that would make a mockery of our poll. So for a dash of (sur)realism, you will be choosing between the cars under pain of seeing your prized 288 GTO crushed into a cube.

The Dino is tempting, for sure.

Created as an entry point into the Ferrari range, overlord Enzo himself was never keen on its "poor man's Ferrari" stigma and decreed it shouldn't wear the Cavallino badge - though conversely, he clearly respected it enough to name it after his dearly departed son, who'd designed the Dino's amazing little V6 engine.

It was both the highest-selling Ferrari at the time, and the marque's first production mid-engined model.

Launching with an aluminium body and a tiny 2.0-litre V6 lump in 1968, the car became steel-bodied and gained an extra 400cc in 1969. Neither was overly powerful by today's standards, but those who've driven the 206 and 246 GT say it handles sweetly.

It makes a nice noise too, as you can see in the video. And since even the steel-bodied car makes modern Ferraris look bloated, performance could still be classed as entertaining.

But really the Dino is all about the styling and image. Newer Ferraris are vulgar, and make you look like a footballer. Older ones are bought by connoisseurs.

Still, the Dino wouldn't see which way a 458 Italia went. Choose a road, any road, and you could punt the new Ferrari down it faster - and probably with more confidence too.

That's the beauty of modern supercars - kept below their incredibly high limits, they're as easy to drive as a supermini. Many reckon the 458 is up there with the best (supercars, not superminis...), and the 458's 562-horsepower, 4.5-litre V8 lends it incredible performance. Officially, it'll kick 62mph's arse in only 3.4 seconds, and headbutt 200 mph on its way to a peak of 202.

It's a return to styling form for mid-engined Ferraris too, after the slightly awkward F430. Functional and beautiful, it's everything you'd hope for from a mid-engined Ferrari. Buy one and pretend you're this man:

But which one would you have in your dream garage? Classic class or modern mojo? Remember, the fate of your GTO is resting on it...