Ferrari's first vehicle was the 125 S sports/racing model. In 1949, the Ferrari 166 Inter,
the company's first move into the grand touring market, which continues
to make up the bulk of Ferrari sales to the present day.
Several early cars featured bodywork customised by a number of coachbuilders such as Pininfarina, Zagato and Bertone.
The Dino was the first mid-engined Ferrari. This layout would go on
to be used in most Ferraris of the 1980s and 1990s. V8 Ferrari models
make up well over half of the marque's total production.
For a time, Ferrari built 2+2 versions of its mid-engined V8 cars.
Although they looked quite different from their 2-seat counterparts,
both the GT4 and Mondial were closely related to the 308 GTB.
The company has also produced front-engined 2+2 cars, culminating in the current 612 Scaglietti and California.
Ferrari entered the mid-engined 12-cylinder fray with the Berlinetta
Boxer in 1973. The later Testarossa remains one of the most famous
Ferraris.List Of Cars
11 September, 2011
Race cars for other teams
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Throughout its history, Ferrari has supplied racing cars to other entrants, aside from its own works Scuderia Ferrari team.
In the 1950s and 60s, Ferrari supplied Formula One cars to a number of private entrants and other teams. One famous example was Tony Vandervell's team, which raced the Thinwall Special modified Ferraris before building their own Vanwall cars. The North American Racing Team's entries in the final three rounds of the 1969 season were the last occasions on which a team other than Scuderia Ferrari entered a World Championship Grand Prix with a Ferrari car.
Ferrari supplied cars complete with V8 engines for the A1 Grand Prix series, from the 2008-09 season.The car was designed by Rory Byrne and is styled to resemble the 2004 Ferrari Formula one car.
The 599 GTB Fiorano and F430 GT are used in GT racing series. The Ferrari Challenge is a one make racing series for the Ferrari F430. Ferrari's latest supercar, the 2006 FXX is not road legal, and is therefore only used for track events.
In the 1950s and 60s, Ferrari supplied Formula One cars to a number of private entrants and other teams. One famous example was Tony Vandervell's team, which raced the Thinwall Special modified Ferraris before building their own Vanwall cars. The North American Racing Team's entries in the final three rounds of the 1969 season were the last occasions on which a team other than Scuderia Ferrari entered a World Championship Grand Prix with a Ferrari car.
Ferrari supplied cars complete with V8 engines for the A1 Grand Prix series, from the 2008-09 season.The car was designed by Rory Byrne and is styled to resemble the 2004 Ferrari Formula one car.
The 599 GTB Fiorano and F430 GT are used in GT racing series. The Ferrari Challenge is a one make racing series for the Ferrari F430. Ferrari's latest supercar, the 2006 FXX is not road legal, and is therefore only used for track events.
Motorsport
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Since the company's beginnings, Ferrari has been involved in motorsport,
competing in a range of categories including Formula One
and sports car racing through its Scuderia
Ferrari sporting division as well as supplying cars and engines to
other teams and for one make series.
The 1940 AAC 815 was the first racing car to be
designed by Enzo Ferrari, although it was not badged as a Ferrari model.List Of Cars
Official Ferrari
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The History and Design of the Ferrari Logo
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All racing fans are very
familiar with the famous Ferrari "prancing horse" symbol. The famous
symbol of Ferrari is a black prancing horse on yellow background,
usually with the letters S F for Scuderia Ferrari. The horse was
originally the symbol of Count Francesco Baracca, a legendary "asso"
(ace) of the Italian air force during World War I, who painted it on the
side of his planes. Baracca died very young on June 19, 1918, shot down
after 34 victorious duels and many team victories.
He soon became a national hero. Baracca had wanted the prancing
horse on his planes because his squad, the "Battaglione Aviatori", was
enrolled in a Cavalry regiment (air forces were at their first years of
life and had no separate administration), and also because he himself
was reputed to be the best cavaliere of his team.
The Scuderia Ferrari logo Coat of Arms of the City of Stuttgart. It
has been supposed that the choice of a horse was perhaps partly due to
the fact that his noble family was known for having plenty of horses in
their estates at Lugo di Romagna. Another theory suggests Baracca copied
the rampant horse design from a shot down German pilot having the
emblem of the city of Stuttgart on his plane. Interestingly, German
sports car manufacturer Porsche, from Stuttgart, borrowed its prancing
horse logo from the city's emblem. Furthermore astonishing: Stuttgart is
an over the centuries modified version of Stutengarten (an ancient
german word for "Gestüt", translated into english as mare garden or stud
farm, into italian as "scuderia").
On June 17, 1923, Enzo Ferrari won a race at the Savio track in
Ravenna, and there he met the Countess Paolina, mother of Baracca. The
Countess asked that he use the horse on his cars, suggesting that it
would grant him good luck, but it the first race at which Alfa would let
him use the horse on Scuderia cars was eleven years later, at SPA 24
Hours in 1932. Ferrari won. Ferrari left the horse black as it had been
on Baracca's plane; however, he added a yellow background because it was
the symbolic color of his birthplace, Modena. The prancing horse has
not always identified the Ferrari brand only: Fabio Taglioni used it on
his Ducati motorbikes. Taglioni's father was in fact a companion of
Baracca's and fought with him in the 91st Air Squad, but as Ferrari's
fame grew, Ducati abandoned the horse; this may have been the result of a
private agreement between the two brands. The prancing horse is now a
trademark of Ferrari.
02 September, 2011
Supercars
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The company's loftiest efforts have been in the supercar market. The 1962 250 GTO may be considered the first in the line of Ferrari supercars, which extends to the recent Enzo Ferrari and FXX models.
History
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Enzo Ferrari never intended to produce road cars when he formed Scuderia Ferrari (literally "Ferrari Stable", and usually used to mean "Team Ferrari", it is correctly pronounced [skudeˈriːa]) in 1928 as a sponsor for amateur drivers headquartered in Modena. Ferrari prepared, and successfully raced, various drivers in Alfa Romeo cars until 1938, when he was hired by Alfa Romeo to head their motor racing department.
In 1941, Alfa Romeo was confiscated by the fascist government of Benito Mussolini as part of the Axis Powers' war effort. Enzo Ferrari's division was small enough to be unaffected by this. Because he was prohibited by contract from racing for four years, the Scuderia briefly became Auto Avio Costruzioni Ferrari, which ostensibly produced machine tools and aircraft accessories. Also known as SEFAC (Scuderia Enzo Ferrari Auto Corse), Ferrari did in fact produce one race car, the Tipo 815, in the non-competition period. It was the first actual Ferrari car (it debuted at the 1940 Mille Miglia), but due to World War II it saw little competition. In 1943 the Ferrari factory moved to Maranello, where it has remained ever since. The factory was bombed by the Allies in 1944 and rebuilt in 1946, after the war ended, and included a works for road car production. Until Il Commendatore's death, this would remain little more than a source of funding for his racing operations.
The first Ferrari road car was the 1947 125 S, powered by a 1.5 L V12 engine; Enzo Ferrari reluctantly built and sold his automobiles to fund Scuderia Ferrari.
In 1988, Enzo Ferrari oversaw the launch of the Ferrari F40, the last new Ferrari to be launched before his death later that year, and arguably one of the most famous supercars ever made. From 2002 to 2004, Ferrari introduced the Enzo, its fastest model at the time, in honor of the company's founder: Enzo Ferrari. It was restricted to only the wealthiest automobile enthusiasts, however, as each one cost $1.8 million apiece.
On 17 May 2009 in Maranello, Italy, a 1957 250 Testa Rossa (TR) was auctioned, by RM Auctions and Sotheby's, for $12.1 million — a world record at that time for the most expensive car ever sold at an auction.
Intro
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Ferrari
Ferrari S.p.A. is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929, as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles as Ferrari S.p.A. in 1947. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One, where it has had great success.
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