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Seen With tracks notable owners and celebrities photographed or filmed with a Ferrari 355 — actors, musicians, athletes and collectors. Each entry is sourced from press photography, social media or on-camera appearances and links back to the original media.

The 355 has had a strange, brilliant second life as a cultural object — a Bond villain's car, the black Spider that lost to the orange Supra, a Jamiroquai garage curio, a Top Gear obsession, the road car of the man who was about to win five world championships in red, and the default mid-engine Ferrari of an entire generation of console racers. Every photo here links back to its original source.

Famke Janssen as Xenia Onatopp at the wheel of the red Ferrari 355 GTS, with Bond's silver Aston Martin DB5 alongside, in GoldenEye (1995)Pierce Brosnan as James Bond in GoldenEye-era publicity imagery
Images: GoldenEye / Eon Productions via IMCDb.org · Pierce Brosnan as Bond via 007.com · source ↗

1995 · Film

James Bond — GoldenEye

Xenia Onatopp's red 355 GTS vs Bond's DB5 above Monte Carlo

Pierce Brosnan's debut as 007 opens with one of cinema's great car chases — a red Ferrari 355 GTS driven by Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen) tearing past Bond's silver Aston Martin DB5 down the Grande Corniche above Monte Carlo. It's the moment the 355 stopped being just a new Ferrari and became a star: a car so quick and so sharp it could trade paint with the most famous Aston in the world and walk away looking cool. According to the official 007 site, Brosnan himself caused the most damage to the DB5 on set — by driving it up the mountain for eight takes with the handbrake on.

"What's that smell?" — the crew, after Brosnan's eighth take with the DB5's handbrake on.

Read: IMCDb.org — 1995 Ferrari F355 GTS in GoldenEye ↗

Jay Kay's black Ferrari F355 GTS in the Cosmic Girl music videoJay Kay singing at the wheel of his black Ferrari F355 in the Cosmic Girl music video
Images: Jamiroquai / Sony, via Spotern & Vevo · source ↗

1996 · UK

Jay Kay — Cosmic Girl & the purple GTS

His black 355 raced for the camera; his purple one was a respray

Jay Kay's Cosmic Girl video has the black 355 racing across Spanish dust roads alongside his Lamborghini Diablo SE30 and a red F40 — and the iconic shot of him at the wheel, gull-wing roof open, singing into the camera. Worth keeping straight on two counts: the Ferrari he drove in the video was the black 355, not the purple one — and the purple 355 wasn't ordered that way from Maranello, he had it repainted himself afterwards. (The famous purple car in Cosmic Girl was his Diablo SE30, which is where most of the colour confusion comes from.)

Black 355 in the video. The purple one is a respray.

Read: Spotern — Jay Kay's black F355 in Cosmic Girl ↗

Michael Schumacher's 1996 Ferrari F355 GTS in Blu Le MansPortrait of Michael Schumacher
Images: RM Sotheby's · Michael Schumacher portrait via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA) · source ↗

1996 · Maranello

Michael Schumacher — Blu Le Mans 355 GTS

His personal Ferrari road car, used hard from day one

When Schumacher signed for Ferrari in 1996, the factory delivered him a 355 GTS finished in Blu Le Mans over Pella Crema, fitted with the desirable manual gearbox. He famously put around 1,000 miles on it in its first week. Twenty-plus years of single enthusiast ownership later it crossed the block at RM Sotheby's in Paris in 2025, sealed and consigned with full provenance — chassis ZFFXR42B000105416.

1,000 miles in week one. He drove it like he meant it.

Read: RM Sotheby's — Schumacher's former 1996 F355 GTS ↗

Jeremy Clarkson's yellow Ferrari F355 BerlinettaPortrait of Jeremy Clarkson at Top Gear Live 2012
Images: Motoring Research · Jeremy Clarkson via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA) · source ↗

1990s–2020s · UK

Jeremy Clarkson — the yellow 355

The Top Gear road tester's own F355 Berlinetta

Clarkson's reviews of the 355 in the original BBC Top Gear era are among the most-quoted Ferrari pieces in motoring journalism — he loved it. So much so that he ended up owning a Giallo Modena 355 Berlinetta himself, which has popped up at auction over the years (most recently failing to sell, prompting Motoring Research to run the headline "time to grab a bargain?"). It's the closest thing the 355 has to a celebrity provenance car you can actually buy.

He didn't just review it. He bought one.

Read: Motoring Research — Clarkson's Ferrari fails to sell ↗

Ferrari red carpet outside Everyman The Whiteley for the 'Luca: Seeing Red' premierePortrait of Luca di Montezemolo, former chairman of Ferrari
Images: A Rabbit's Foot / Everyman · Luca di Montezemolo via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA) · source ↗

Sept 2025 · London

Luca di Montezemolo — Luca: Seeing Red premiere

The chairman who oversaw the 355, back in front of a Ferrari-red carpet

On 25 September 2025, the Everyman cinema at The Whiteley in London turned Ferrari red for the world premiere of "Luca: Seeing Red" — Christopher Armstrong and Manish Pandey's documentary about Luca di Montezemolo's run as Ferrari chairman through the marque's 1990s renaissance, which produced the F355. Montezemolo arrived alongside Stefano Domenicali and a fleet of Ferraris parked outside the venue. A perfect closing of the loop — the man who greenlit the 355, walking past one almost three decades on.

The chairman who built the 355 era, back in front of a Ferrari red carpet.

Read: A Rabbit's Foot — Luca: Seeing Red premiere at The Whiteley ↗

Black Ferrari F355 Spider next to Brian O'Conner's orange Toyota Supra in The Fast and the Furious (2001)Portrait of Paul Walker, who played Brian O'Conner
Images: The Fast and the Furious / Universal Pictures via IMCDb.org · Paul Walker via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA) · source ↗

2001 · Film

More than you can afford, pal. Ferrari.

The black 355 Spider that Brian O'Conner's orange Supra runs down

The single most-quoted Ferrari line in modern movie history is about a 355. In Rob Cohen's The Fast and the Furious (2001), Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) rolls his bright orange Toyota Supra up alongside a black Ferrari 355 Spider at a stoplight in Los Angeles. He asks the driver about the price. The reply — "More than you can afford, pal. Ferrari." — has been quoted, parodied and tattooed onto pop culture for the better part of 25 years. Brian and Dom (Vin Diesel) then proceed to humiliate the 355 in a street race, cementing the tuner-vs-supercar mythology that powered the entire franchise. The car itself, per IMCDb, is a 1995 F355 Spider F1.

"More than you can afford, pal. Ferrari."

Read: IMCDb.org — 1995 Ferrari F355 Spider in The Fast and the Furious ↗

Box art for Gran Turismo 2 (1999), the Sony PlayStation racing simulator that featured the Ferrari F355Portrait of Yu Suzuki, lead designer at Sega AM2 behind Ferrari F355 Challenge
Images: Gran Turismo 2 cover via Wikipedia (fair use) · Yu Suzuki at GDC 2011 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY) · source ↗

1999–2000s · Video games

Gran Turismo — the 355 of a generation of gamers

The default mid-engine Ferrari of late-90s console racing

For millions of teenagers in the late 1990s, their first lap in a Ferrari 355 wasn't at Fiorano — it was on a PlayStation. Polyphony Digital's Gran Turismo 2 (1999) shipped with the F355 as one of its hero Ferraris, and the car became a series staple, returning across Gran Turismo 3, 4 and beyond. In parallel, Sega and Yu Suzuki's AM2 built an entire arcade simulator around the car — F355 Challenge (1999) — later ported to Dreamcast and PS2, with three networked CRTs, a force-feedback wheel and the most accurate Ferrari engine note ever recorded for a game at the time. Two of the most influential racing franchises of the era both picked the same car as their reference Ferrari. That's how the 355 became muscle memory for a generation that grew up to actually buy one.

Two of the era's most influential racing franchises both picked the 355 as their reference Ferrari.

Read: Wikipedia — Gran Turismo 2 ↗

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