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{{Infobox Company| company_name = Ferrari S.p.A.| company_logo = | vector_logo = The current Ferrari logo| company_type = Subsidiary| founder = [Enzo Ferrari, [Modena| origins =| key_people = [Luca di Montezemolo, Chairman and President
Jean Todt, CEO
Giancarlo Coppa
CFO| products =| revenue =| operating_income =| net_income =| num_employees =| parent = [Fiat| subsid =| owner =| company_slogan =| homepage = www.ferrariworld.com| footnotes =--> by Tamás Kádár, 2007.
Ferrari S.p.A. is an Italy sports car car manufacturer based in
Maranello and
Modena, 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 in 1947 as Ferrari Joint stock company. Ferrari's cars are among the most desirable of vehicles to own and drive, and are one of the ultimate status symbols of wealth in the world. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in
Auto racing, especially in Formula One, where it has largely enjoyed great success, especially during the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, late 1990s, and 2000s.
Finally, after years of financial struggles, Enzo Ferrari sold the company's sports car division to the
Fiat group in 1969 in order to help ensure continued financial backing for the foreseeable future. Enzo Ferrari himself retained control of the racing division until his death in 1988 at the age of 90.
Ferrari also has an internally managed merchandising line that licenses a wide range of products bearing the Ferrari brand, including eyewear, pens, pencils, perfume, clothing, high-tech bicycles, cell phones, and even laptop computers.
Financial Times named Ferrari number one on its 2007 list of the
100 Best Workplaces in Europe.
History of Ferrari
1929–1946
Enzo Ferrari never intended to produce road cars when he formed
Scuderia Ferrari in 1929 as a sponsor for amateur drivers headquartered in Modena. Ferrari prepared and successfully raced various drivers in
Alfa Romeo in motorsport cars until 1938, when he was officially hired by Alfa as head of their racing department.
In 1940, Alfa Romeo was absorbed 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 Ferrari Tipo 815, in the non-competition period; it was thus 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, with the war ended and the Mussolini government overthrown, to include a works for road car production. Right up to
Il Commendatore's death, this would remain little more than a source of funding for his first love, racing.
"
Scuderia Ferrari" literally means "Ferrari Stable"; the name is figuratively translated as "Team Ferrari". (It is correctly pronounced "skoo deh
REE ah".)
1947–present
The first Ferrari road car was the 1947
Ferrari 125, powered by a 1.5 L
V12 engine; Enzo reluctantly built and sold his automobiles to fund the
Scuderia. While his beautiful and fast cars quickly gained a reputation for excellence, Enzo maintained a famous distaste for his customers, most of whom he felt were buying his cars for the prestige and not the performance.Ferrari road cars, noted for magnificent styling by design houses like
Pininfarina, have long been one of the ultimate accessories for the rich. Other design houses that have done work for Ferrari over the years include
Scaglietti,
Bertone,
Touring, Ghia, and Vignale.
In 2005, four universities were granted the opportunity to design the next vehicle line-up for Ferrari in a student competition named 'Ferrari Concepts of the Myth'. Twenty winners were allowed to show off their concepts in a ¼ scale model and present their work to the board at Ferrari to allow for three out right winners to have the chance to work in the Ferrari design studio at
Maranello.
As of 2007, the FIAT owns 85% of Ferrari, Mubadala 5%, and Enzo's son Piero Ferrari 10%. Fiat has shelved plans for an IPO because Fiat Auto has now returned to profitability, thus removing pressure from the group.
Racing
won its most recent Formula One title in , with Michael Schumacher (pictured) and
Rubens Barrichello at the wheel.
Enzo Ferrari's true passion, despite his extensive road car business, was always auto racing. His Scuderia started as an independent sponsor for drivers in various cars, but soon became the Alfa Romeo in-house racing team. After Ferrari's departure from Alfa, he began to design and produce cars of his own; the Ferrari team first appeared on the European Grand Prix scene after the end of World War II.
In 1949,
Luigi Chinetti drove a Model 166M to Ferrari's first win in
motorsports, the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Chinetti drove for all except twenty minutes of the
Grand Prix motor racing race. He soon became the American dealer for Ferraris and established the North American Racing Team, Ferrari's official racing arm. The dealership is reported to have kept the company in business through sales to wealthy Americans, such as Briggs Cunningham, who bought the first one Chinetti sold through the new dealership.
The Scuderia joined the Formula One World Championship in the first year of its existence, 1950.
José Froilán González gave the team its first victory at the 1951 British Grand Prix.
Alberto Ascari gave Ferrari its first List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions a year later. Ferrari is the oldest team left in the championship, not to mention the most successful: the team holds nearly every Formula One record. As of
2007 Formula One season, the team's records include fourteen World Drivers Championship titles (
1952 Formula One season, 1953 Formula One season, 1956 Formula One season,
1958 Formula One season, 1961 Formula One season, 1964 Formula One season,
1975 Formula One season, 1977 Formula One season,
1979 Formula One season, 2000 Formula One season,
2001 Formula One season, 2002 Formula One season, 2003 Formula One season and
2004 Formula One season), fifteen World Constructors Championship titles (1961 Formula One season,
1964 Formula One season, 1975 Formula One season, 1976 Formula One season, 1977 Formula One season,
1979 Formula One season,
1982 Formula One season,
1983 Formula One season,
1999 Formula One season, 2000 Formula One season,
2001 Formula One season,
2002 Formula One season,
2003 Formula One season,
2004 Formula One season and
2007 Formula One season), 200 Grand Prix victories, 4735.27 points, 601 podium finishes, 194
pole positions, 12,419 laps led, and 204 fastest laps in 757 Grands Prix contested.
Notable Ferrari drivers include
Tazio Nuvolari,
Juan Manuel Fangio, Luigi Chinetti, Alberto Ascari, Wolfgang von Trips,
Phil Hill,
Olivier Gendebien,
Mike Hawthorn,
Peter Collins, John Surtees, Lorenzo Bandini, Ludivico Scarfiotti,
Jacky Ickx, Mario Andretti, Niki Lauda,
Carlos Reutemann,
Jody Scheckter,
Gilles Villeneuve,
Didier Pironi,
Michele Alboreto,
Gerhard Berger,
Nigel Mansell,
Alain Prost, Jean Alesi,
Eddie Irvine, Rubens Barrichello, Michael Schumacher,
Kimi Räikkonen, and
Felipe Massa.
The Scuderia Ferrari drivers for the 2006 F1 season were Michael Schumacher and
Felipe Massa. At the end of the 2006 season the team courted controversy by continuing to allow
Marlboro (cigarette) to sponsor them after they, along with the other F1 teams, made a promise to end sponsorship deals with tobacco manufacturers. A five year deal worth a reported $500 million was agreed.
The drivers for 2007 are
Felipe Massa and
Kimi Räikkönen.
The "Cavallino Rampante"
The famous symbol of the Ferrari race team is a black prancing stallion on a yellow shield, usually with the letters
S F (for
Scuderia Ferrari), with three stripes of green, white and red (the Italian national colors) at the top. The road cars have a rectangular badge on the hood (see picture above) and this race logo on the side.
On
June 17,
1923, Enzo Ferrari won a race at the Savio track in Ravenna where he met the Countess Paolina, mother of Count
Francesco Baracca, an ace of the Aeronautica Militare and national hero of
World War I, who used to paint a horse on the side of his planes. The Countess asked Enzo to use this horse on his cars, suggesting that it would grant him good luck. The original "prancing horse" on Baracca's airplane was painted in red on a white cloud-like shape, but Ferrari chose to have the horse in black (as it had been painted as a sign of grief on Baracca's squadron planes after the pilot was KIA) and he added a
canary yellow background as this is the color of the city of
Modena, his birthplace. It is worth noting that the Ferrari horse was, from the very beginning, markedly different from the Baracca horse in most details, the most noticeable being the tail that in the original Baracca version was pointing downward.
Ferrari has used the cavallino rampante on official company stationery since 1929. Since the Spa 24 Hours race of July 9, 1932, the cavallino rampante has been used on Alfa Romeos raced by Scuderia Ferrari.
A similar black horse on a yellow shield is the
Coat of Arms of the
Germany city of
Stuttgart. This horse motif comes from the origins of the city's name: it comes from
Stutengarten, an ancient form of the modern German word
Gestüt, which translates into English as
stud farm and into Italian as
scuderia. Stuttgart is the home of
Porsche, which also uses the Stuttgart sign in its corporate logo, centred in the emblem of the state of
Württemberg.
, Germany
Fabio Taglioni used the cavallino rampante on his Ducati motorbikes. Taglioni's father was a companion of Baracca's and fought with him in the 91st Air Squad. As Ferrari's fame grew, Ducati abandoned the horse- perhaps the result of a private agreement between the two companies.
The cavallino rampante is now a
trademark of Ferrari. However, other companies use similar logos: Avanti, an Austrian company operating over 100 filling stations, uses a prancing horse logo which is nearly identical to Ferrari's.
Many aspects of the cover design of the third Jamiroquai album,
Travelling without Moving, as well as the single Virtual Insanity and some single promos pay homage to the Ferrari logo.
Rosso Corsa
Since the 1920s, Italian race cars of Alfa Romeo, Maserati and later Ferrari and
Abarth were (and often still are) painted in "race red" (
Rosso Corsa). This was the customary List of international auto racing colors of Italy, as recommended between the World Wars by the organizations that later would become the
FIA. In that scheme, French cars like Bugatti were blue, German like BMW and
Porsche white (since 1934 also
Silver Arrows), British racing green etc.
Curiously, Ferrari won the 1964 World championship with John Surtees by competing the last two races in cars painted white and blue, as these were not entered by the Italian factory themselves, but the US-based
North American Racing Team team. This was done as a protest concerning arguments between Ferrari and the Italian Racing Authorities regarding the homologation of a new mid-engined Ferrari race car.
List of models
Until the mid-1980s, Ferrari followed a three-number naming scheme based on engine displacement:
- Four-Cylinder and V6 models used the total displacement (in decilitres) for the first two digits and the number of cylinders as the third. Thus, the 206 was a 2.0 L Four Cylinder-powered vehicle, while the 348 used a 3.4 L V6.
- V12 models used the displacement (in cubic centimetres) of one cylinder. Therefore, the famed 365 Daytona had a 4380 cc V12.
- Flat engine models used the displacement in litres. Therefore, the 512BB was five litre flat 12 (a Berlinetta Boxer, in this case). However, the original Berlinetta Boxer was the Ferrari Berlinetta Boxer#365 GT4 BB, which was named in a similar manner to the V12 models.
Most Ferraris were also given designations referring to their body style. In general, the following conventions were used:
- M standing for "Modificata," this suffix is placed to the end of a model's number designation to denote that it is a modified version of its predecessor and not a complete evolution (see Ferrari Testarossa#F512M and Ferrari 575M Maranello).
- GTB models are closed Berlinettas, or coupes.
- GTS models, in older models, are convertibles (see Ferrari Daytona#365 GTS4); however, in late models, this suffix is used for targa top models (see Ferrari 348 Ferrari 348#348 GTS, and Ferrari F355 Ferrari F355#F355 GTS; exception being the Ferrari 348 Ferrari 348#348 TS, which is the only targa named differently). The convertible models now use the suffix "Spider" (see Ferrari F355 Spider, and Ferrari 360 Spider).
This naming system can be confusing, as some entirely different vehicles used the same engine type and body style. Many Ferraris also had other names affixed (like Daytona) to identify them further. Many such names are actually not official factory names. The Daytona name commemorates Ferrari's triple success in the February 1967
24 Hours of Daytona with the
Ferrari P. Only in the 1973 Daytona 24h, a
Ferrari Daytona#365 GTB4 model run by N.A.R.T. (North American Racing Team, who raced Ferrari's in America) scored 2nd—behind a
Porsche 911.
As well, the
Ferrari 250 GTO's famous acronym, which means
Gran Turismo Omologato, was simply a name the Italian press gave the car which referred to the way Ferrari had, in a sense, avoided the rules and successfully homologated the car for racing purposes (somehow Ferrari had convinced the
FIA that the 250 GTO was the same car as previous Ferrari 250's). This was probably to avoid confusion with the multiple 250 models produced before the GTO.
The various Ferrari Dino models were named for Enzo's son, Dino Ferrari, and are not formally Ferraris, though are to all intents and purposes considered so.
In the mid 1990s, Ferrari added the letter "F" to the beginning of all models (a practice quickly abandoned after the Ferrari Testarossa#F512M and Ferrari F355, but recently picked up again with the Ferrari F430).
Road models
's parking lot at the 2005 United States Grand Prix
Sports cars
Ferrari's first models were sports/racing cars quite different from the grand touring models that followed. See below for a complete list.
2-seat Gran Turismo
Ferrari quickly moved into the Gran Turismo market, and the bulk of the company's sales remain in this area.
Mid-engine V6/V8
Targa
The Dino was the first mid-engined Ferrari. This layout would go on to be used in most Ferraris of the 1980s and 1990s. V6 and V8 Ferrari models make up well over half of the marque's total production.
- 1968-1975 Ferrari Dino
- 1968-1973 Dino 206GT
- 1968-1973 Dino 246GT/GTS
- 1975-1989 Ferrari 308GTB
- 1989 Ferrari 348
- 1995-1998 Ferrari F355
- 1999-2004 Ferrari 360
- 1999-2004 360 Modena/Spider
- 2003-2004 Challenge Stradale
- 2005 Ferrari F430
Mid-engine 2+2
-bodied Ferrari Dino Ferrari GT4
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 very closely-related to the 308 GTB.
Front-engine 2+2
The company has also produced front-engined 2+2 cars, culminating in the current 612 Scaglietti.
- 1960-1963 Ferrari 250
- 1960-1963 Ferrari 250#250 GT
- 1964-1967 Ferrari 330
- 1964-1967 Ferrari 330#330 GT
- 1967-1971 Ferrari 365
- 1968-1973 Ferrari Daytona
- 1971-1972 Ferrari Daytona#365 GTC4
- 1972-1976 Ferrari Daytona#365 GT4
- 1976-1989 Ferrari 400
- 1992-2003 Ferrari 456
- 1992-1997 Ferrari 456#456 GT Coupe
- 1998-2003 Ferrari 456#456M GT Coupe
- 2004-2005 Ferrari 612 Scaglietti
Mid-engine 12-cylinder
Ferrari entered the mid-engined 12-cylinder fray with the Berlinetta Boxer in 1971. The later Testarossa remains one of the most famous Ferraris.
Supercars
The company's loftiest efforts have been in the
supercar market.
Competition models
Current
Past
collection
Concept models
See also
- List of automobile manufacturers
- List of Italian companies
- List of Ferrari engines
- Galleria Ferrari
References
External links
- Ferrari World (official website)
- Ferrari.mobi (official mobile website)
- Galleria Ferrari Museum website (in Italian and English)
- Ferrari Pictures
- Open directory of Ferrari Web sites
- Ferrari Forum
{{Infobox Company| company_name = Ferrari S.p.A.| company_logo = | vector_logo = The current Ferrari logo| company_type =
Subsidiary| founder = [Enzo Ferrari, [Modena| origins =| key_people = [Luca di Montezemolo, Chairman and President
Jean Todt,
CEO Giancarlo Coppa
CFO| products =| revenue =| operating_income =| net_income =| num_employees =| parent = [Fiat| subsid =| owner =| company_slogan =| homepage = www.ferrariworld.com| footnotes =--> by Tamás Kádár, 2007.
Ferrari S.p.A. is an
Italy sports car car manufacturer based in
Maranello and Modena,
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 in 1947 as Ferrari Joint stock company. Ferrari's cars are among the most desirable of vehicles to own and drive, and are one of the ultimate status symbols of wealth in the world. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in
Auto racing, especially in
Formula One, where it has largely enjoyed great success, especially during the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, late 1990s, and 2000s.
Finally, after years of financial struggles, Enzo Ferrari sold the company's sports car division to the
Fiat group in 1969 in order to help ensure continued financial backing for the foreseeable future. Enzo Ferrari himself retained control of the racing division until his death in
1988 at the age of 90.
Ferrari also has an internally managed merchandising line that licenses a wide range of products bearing the Ferrari brand, including eyewear, pens, pencils, perfume, clothing, high-tech bicycles, cell phones, and even laptop computers.Financial Times named Ferrari number one on its 2007 list of the 100 Best Workplaces in Europe.
History of Ferrari
1929–1946
Enzo Ferrari never intended to produce road cars when he formed
Scuderia Ferrari in 1929 as a sponsor for amateur drivers headquartered in Modena. Ferrari prepared and successfully raced various drivers in
Alfa Romeo in motorsport cars until 1938, when he was officially hired by Alfa as head of their racing department.
In 1940, Alfa Romeo was absorbed 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 Ferrari Tipo 815, in the non-competition period; it was thus 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, with the war ended and the Mussolini government overthrown, to include a works for road car production. Right up to
Il Commendatore's death, this would remain little more than a source of funding for his first love, racing.
"
Scuderia Ferrari" literally means "Ferrari Stable"; the name is figuratively translated as "Team Ferrari". (It is correctly pronounced "skoo deh
REE ah".)
1947–present
The first Ferrari road car was the 1947 Ferrari 125, powered by a 1.5 L
V12 engine; Enzo reluctantly built and sold his automobiles to fund the
Scuderia. While his beautiful and fast cars quickly gained a reputation for excellence, Enzo maintained a famous distaste for his customers, most of whom he felt were buying his cars for the prestige and not the performance.Ferrari road cars, noted for magnificent styling by design houses like Pininfarina, have long been one of the ultimate accessories for the rich. Other design houses that have done work for Ferrari over the years include Scaglietti,
Bertone, Touring,
Ghia, and
Vignale.
In 2005, four universities were granted the opportunity to design the next vehicle line-up for Ferrari in a student competition named 'Ferrari Concepts of the Myth'. Twenty winners were allowed to show off their concepts in a ¼ scale model and present their work to the board at Ferrari to allow for three out right winners to have the chance to work in the Ferrari design studio at
Maranello.
As of 2007, the
FIAT owns 85% of Ferrari,
Mubadala 5%, and Enzo's son Piero Ferrari 10%. Fiat has shelved plans for an IPO because Fiat Auto has now returned to profitability, thus removing pressure from the group.
Racing
won its most recent
Formula One title in , with Michael Schumacher (pictured) and
Rubens Barrichello at the wheel.
Enzo Ferrari's true passion, despite his extensive road car business, was always auto racing. His Scuderia started as an independent sponsor for drivers in various cars, but soon became the Alfa Romeo in-house racing team. After Ferrari's departure from Alfa, he began to design and produce cars of his own; the Ferrari team first appeared on the European Grand Prix scene after the end of
World War II.
In 1949, Luigi Chinetti drove a Model 166M to Ferrari's first win in
motorsports, the
24 Hours of Le Mans. Chinetti drove for all except twenty minutes of the
Grand Prix motor racing race. He soon became the American dealer for Ferraris and established the
North American Racing Team, Ferrari's official racing arm. The dealership is reported to have kept the company in business through sales to wealthy Americans, such as
Briggs Cunningham, who bought the first one Chinetti sold through the new dealership.
The Scuderia joined the
Formula One World Championship in the first year of its existence, 1950. José Froilán González gave the team its first victory at the
1951 British Grand Prix.
Alberto Ascari gave Ferrari its first List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions a year later. Ferrari is the oldest team left in the championship, not to mention the most successful: the team holds nearly every Formula One record. As of 2007 Formula One season, the team's records include fourteen World Drivers Championship titles (1952 Formula One season, 1953 Formula One season, 1956 Formula One season,
1958 Formula One season, 1961 Formula One season,
1964 Formula One season,
1975 Formula One season,
1977 Formula One season,
1979 Formula One season, 2000 Formula One season, 2001 Formula One season, 2002 Formula One season, 2003 Formula One season and
2004 Formula One season), fifteen World Constructors Championship titles (
1961 Formula One season, 1964 Formula One season, 1975 Formula One season, 1976 Formula One season,
1977 Formula One season, 1979 Formula One season,
1982 Formula One season,
1983 Formula One season,
1999 Formula One season,
2000 Formula One season, 2001 Formula One season,
2002 Formula One season,
2003 Formula One season,
2004 Formula One season and
2007 Formula One season), 200 Grand Prix victories, 4735.27 points, 601 podium finishes, 194 pole positions, 12,419 laps led, and 204 fastest laps in 757 Grands Prix contested.
Notable Ferrari drivers include
Tazio Nuvolari,
Juan Manuel Fangio, Luigi Chinetti, Alberto Ascari,
Wolfgang von Trips,
Phil Hill, Olivier Gendebien, Mike Hawthorn, Peter Collins,
John Surtees,
Lorenzo Bandini,
Ludivico Scarfiotti, Jacky Ickx,
Mario Andretti,
Niki Lauda,
Carlos Reutemann, Jody Scheckter,
Gilles Villeneuve,
Didier Pironi,
Michele Alboreto, Gerhard Berger,
Nigel Mansell,
Alain Prost, Jean Alesi,
Eddie Irvine,
Rubens Barrichello, Michael Schumacher, Kimi Räikkonen, and
Felipe Massa.
The Scuderia Ferrari drivers for the 2006 F1 season were
Michael Schumacher and Felipe Massa. At the end of the 2006 season the team courted controversy by continuing to allow Marlboro (cigarette) to sponsor them after they, along with the other F1 teams, made a promise to end sponsorship deals with tobacco manufacturers. A five year deal worth a reported $500 million was agreed.
The drivers for 2007 are
Felipe Massa and
Kimi Räikkönen.
The "Cavallino Rampante"
The famous symbol of the Ferrari race team is a black prancing stallion on a yellow shield, usually with the letters
S F (for
Scuderia Ferrari), with three stripes of green, white and red (the Italian national colors) at the top. The road cars have a rectangular badge on the hood (see picture above) and this race logo on the side.
On
June 17, 1923, Enzo Ferrari won a race at the Savio track in
Ravenna where he met the Countess Paolina, mother of Count
Francesco Baracca, an ace of the
Aeronautica Militare and national hero of World War I, who used to paint a horse on the side of his planes. The Countess asked Enzo to use this horse on his cars, suggesting that it would grant him good luck. The original "prancing horse" on Baracca's airplane was painted in red on a white cloud-like shape, but Ferrari chose to have the horse in black (as it had been painted as a sign of grief on Baracca's squadron planes after the pilot was KIA) and he added a
canary yellow background as this is the color of the city of
Modena, his birthplace. It is worth noting that the Ferrari horse was, from the very beginning, markedly different from the Baracca horse in most details, the most noticeable being the tail that in the original Baracca version was pointing downward.
Ferrari has used the cavallino rampante on official company stationery since 1929. Since the
Spa 24 Hours race of
July 9, 1932, the cavallino rampante has been used on Alfa Romeos raced by Scuderia Ferrari.
A similar black horse on a yellow shield is the Coat of Arms of the
Germany city of Stuttgart. This horse motif comes from the origins of the city's name: it comes from
Stutengarten, an ancient form of the modern German word
Gestüt, which translates into English as
stud farm and into Italian as
scuderia. Stuttgart is the home of Porsche, which also uses the Stuttgart sign in its corporate logo, centred in the emblem of the state of
Württemberg.
, Germany
Fabio Taglioni used the cavallino rampante on his Ducati motorbikes. Taglioni's father was a companion of Baracca's and fought with him in the 91st Air Squad. As Ferrari's fame grew, Ducati abandoned the horse- perhaps the result of a private agreement between the two companies.
The cavallino rampante is now a trademark of Ferrari. However, other companies use similar logos: Avanti, an Austrian company operating over 100
filling stations, uses a prancing horse logo which is nearly identical to Ferrari's.
Many aspects of the cover design of the third
Jamiroquai album, Travelling without Moving, as well as the single
Virtual Insanity and some single promos pay homage to the Ferrari logo.
Rosso Corsa
Since the 1920s, Italian race cars of Alfa Romeo,
Maserati and later Ferrari and
Abarth were (and often still are) painted in "race red" (
Rosso Corsa). This was the customary
List of international auto racing colors of Italy, as recommended between the World Wars by the organizations that later would become the FIA. In that scheme, French cars like
Bugatti were blue, German like BMW and Porsche white (since 1934 also
Silver Arrows),
British racing green etc.
Curiously, Ferrari won the 1964 World championship with
John Surtees by competing the last two races in cars painted white and blue, as these were not entered by the Italian factory themselves, but the US-based North American Racing Team team. This was done as a protest concerning arguments between Ferrari and the Italian Racing Authorities regarding the homologation of a new mid-engined Ferrari race car.
List of models
Until the mid-1980s, Ferrari followed a three-number naming scheme based on
engine displacement:
- Four-Cylinder and V6 models used the total displacement (in decilitres) for the first two digits and the number of cylinders as the third. Thus, the 206 was a 2.0 L Four Cylinder-powered vehicle, while the 348 used a 3.4 L V6.
- V12 models used the displacement (in cubic centimetres) of one cylinder. Therefore, the famed 365 Daytona had a 4380 cc V12.
- Flat engine models used the displacement in litres. Therefore, the 512BB was five litre flat 12 (a Berlinetta Boxer, in this case). However, the original Berlinetta Boxer was the Ferrari Berlinetta Boxer#365 GT4 BB, which was named in a similar manner to the V12 models.
Most Ferraris were also given designations referring to their body style. In general, the following conventions were used:
- M standing for "Modificata," this suffix is placed to the end of a model's number designation to denote that it is a modified version of its predecessor and not a complete evolution (see Ferrari Testarossa#F512M and Ferrari 575M Maranello).
- GTB models are closed Berlinettas, or coupes.
- GTS models, in older models, are convertibles (see Ferrari Daytona#365 GTS4); however, in late models, this suffix is used for targa top models (see Ferrari 348 Ferrari 348#348 GTS, and Ferrari F355 Ferrari F355#F355 GTS; exception being the Ferrari 348 Ferrari 348#348 TS, which is the only targa named differently). The convertible models now use the suffix "Spider" (see Ferrari F355 Spider, and Ferrari 360 Spider).
This naming system can be confusing, as some entirely different vehicles used the same engine type and body style. Many Ferraris also had other names affixed (like Daytona) to identify them further. Many such names are actually not official factory names. The Daytona name commemorates Ferrari's triple success in the February 1967 24 Hours of Daytona with the Ferrari P. Only in the 1973 Daytona 24h, a Ferrari Daytona#365 GTB4 model run by
N.A.R.T. (North American Racing Team, who raced Ferrari's in America) scored 2nd—behind a Porsche 911.
As well, the Ferrari 250 GTO's famous acronym, which means
Gran Turismo Omologato, was simply a name the Italian press gave the car which referred to the way Ferrari had, in a sense, avoided the rules and successfully homologated the car for racing purposes (somehow Ferrari had convinced the
FIA that the 250 GTO was the same car as previous
Ferrari 250's). This was probably to avoid confusion with the multiple 250 models produced before the GTO.
The various Ferrari Dino models were named for Enzo's son, Dino Ferrari, and are not formally Ferraris, though are to all intents and purposes considered so.
In the mid 1990s, Ferrari added the letter "F" to the beginning of all models (a practice quickly abandoned after the
Ferrari Testarossa#F512M and Ferrari F355, but recently picked up again with the
Ferrari F430).
Road models
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2005 United States Grand Prix
Sports cars
Ferrari's first models were sports/racing cars quite different from the grand touring models that followed. See below for a complete list.
2-seat Gran Turismo
Ferrari quickly moved into the Gran Turismo market, and the bulk of the company's sales remain in this area.
Mid-engine V6/V8
Targa
The Dino was the first mid-engined Ferrari. This layout would go on to be used in most Ferraris of the 1980s and 1990s. V6 and V8 Ferrari models make up well over half of the marque's total production.
Mid-engine 2+2
-bodied Ferrari Dino Ferrari GT4
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 very closely-related to the 308 GTB.
Front-engine 2+2
The company has also produced front-engined 2+2 cars, culminating in the current 612 Scaglietti.
Mid-engine 12-cylinder
Ferrari entered the mid-engined 12-cylinder fray with the Berlinetta Boxer in 1971. The later Testarossa remains one of the most famous Ferraris.
Supercars
The company's loftiest efforts have been in the
supercar market.
Competition models
Current
Past
collection
Concept models
See also
References
External links
- Ferrari World (official website)
- Ferrari.mobi (official mobile website)
- Galleria Ferrari Museum website (in Italian and English)
- Ferrari Pictures
- Open directory of Ferrari Web sites
- Ferrari Forum
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