Ferrari 512 M - modified super sports car as the finale and highlight
Summary
From 1994 to 1996, Ferrari built the 512 M, the last mid-engined sports car in the 365 GT/4 BB, 512 BB, Testarossa and 512 TR line of ancestors. Mature and almost tame, the wildest Ferrari at the time was sold exactly 500 times, as a German magazine noted. This report takes a brief look at the F 512 M's gallery of ancestors and portrays a vehicle from 1995, supplemented with original documents and press material.
This article contains the following chapters
- It all began over 40 years ago
- From the BB to the Testarossa
- Continuous evolution and modifications
- Revised engine for the 512 M
- Design for the nineties
- Fast, but demanding
- Counted and counted out
- Amazingly tame
- Further information
Estimated reading time: 6min
Preview (beginning of the article)
You either love it or hate it, the Ferrari Testarossa. With its characteristic design with elongated cooling inlets interrupted by longitudinal bars on the side and the wide tapered rear, the Testarossa and its descendants polarize like few other Ferrari vehicles. And hardly anyone would have predicted in 1984 that this spectacular sports car would be built more or less unchanged for twelve years. In 1996, after around 10,000 units, the mid-engine was discontinued and the replacement, the 550 Maranello, was fitted with a twelve-cylinder engine at the front. The year was 1971, when Ferrari presented its first mid-engined twelve-cylinder sports car, the 365 GT/4 BB.
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