← fronta

Ferrari F40

1987 · IT · stav: approved

Fakta a zdroje — klikni a ověř

Enzo Ferrari personally approved the F40
The F40 was presented to the press in July 1987 — just 14 months before Enzo Ferrari died. He signed off on the car himself, and it became the last Ferrari he would ever approve for production.
3/3 tokens confirmed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_F40
Only 1,311 were ever built
Ferrari originally planned a short production run of around 400 cars. Demand — and dealer pressure — pushed the final total to 1,311. That overrun undermined the exclusivity Ferrari had promised buyers.
3/3 tokens confirmed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_F40
It had no stereo, no door handles, no carpets
The interior was stripped to bare carbon and Kevlar. There was no glovebox lining, no door trim, and no sound deadening. Buyers paid over £160,000 in 1987 for a car with less comfort than a go-kart.
2/3 tokens confirmed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_F40
Speculators flipped F40s for triple the list price
The official UK list price was around £193,000 at launch. Within months, grey-market examples were changing hands for over £1 million. Ferrari had no mechanism to stop it, and the resale frenzy embarrassed the factory.
2/3 tokens confirmed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_F40
The twin-turbo V8 used a Lancia Delta engine block
The F40's 2.9-litre twin-turbocharged V8 was developed from the engine used in Ferrari's 288 GTO Evoluzione race programme, which itself shared architecture with a unit seen in endurance racing. It produced 478 hp in road trim — enough to hit 201 mph, making it the first production car Ferrari claimed could breach 200 mph.
3/3 tokens confirmed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_F40

Ořez — obkroužni auto

Táhni prstem nebo myší zhruba kolem auta. Větší smyčka = víc oddálené. Ořez pak drží tvůj výřez, jen ho dorovná na poměr slidu.
vlastní výřez Fotka 1
renderuji…
automaticky Fotka 2
renderuji…

Popisek

Ferrari said the F40 was a celebration. Forty years of the company, wrapped in carbon and Kevlar, presented to the world in July 1987.

Enzo Ferrari signed it off himself. He died fourteen months later. That makes the F40 not a party — it's a farewell.

The plan was to build around 400. Discreet. Exclusive. The kind of number that keeps a waiting list meaningful.

Then the dealers got involved. Then the speculators. The final production count hit 1,311, and grey-market examples were trading at over a million pounds — five times the list price. Ferrari had lit the fire and lost control of it.

Inside, there was nothing. No carpet. No door handles. No stereo. Buyers paid life-changing money for a bare tub that smelled of resin and anxiety.

The twin-turbo V8 made 478 hp. Ferrari claimed it would do 201 mph, which made it the first production car they'd ever said could crack 200.

It worked as a machine. As a business decision, it was chaos. That tension is exactly why people still can't stop talking about it.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_F40

Photos: Will ainsworth · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikimedia Commons · Matti Blume · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

#thecarhistory #carhistory #automotivehistory #cars

Vertikální video