Ferrari F40 - the ultimate super sports car of the eighties
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Summary
From 1987 to 1992, Ferrari built 1315 F40 super sports cars. Although designed as a road vehicle, the fastest production car at the time was oriented more towards racing cars than comfort. This report portrays the Ferrari F40 in detail, showing the car in every detail in over 150 pictures and in both road and racing versions. The pictures of production in Maranello and detailed shots of technical components are also unique.
This article contains the following chapters
- The antipode to the Porsche 959
- Enzo's wish for the fortieth anniversary
- Technical heritage of the 288 GTO
- Design by Leonardo Fioravanti
- Between the racetrack and the road
- Production largely by hand
- Only in Rosso Corsa or not?
- The relativity of speed
- Few racing versions
- Further information
Estimated reading time: 8min
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It is on every top ten list such as "The ten cars you absolutely must have driven", it was faster than its successor, the F50, and it also surpassed its Zuffenhausen contemporary, the Porsche 959, in terms of temperament, the Ferrari F40. And it was probably the most successful fast racing car you could buy for use on the roads since the 1980s. And this despite the fact that its use in racing was rather marginal. While the Porsche 959 embodied the ultimate engineering achievement, which was years ahead of other vehicles and already featured tire pressure monitoring sensors, for example, the Ferrari F40 wanted to be nothing other than the perfect machine for experiencing lateral acceleration and driving dynamics at a new level. The F40 did not need a raison d'être in terms of real-life transportation tasks, and comfort was nowhere in the specifications.
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