motorlore 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