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Ferrari F40 - the racing car for fetching bread rolls

Name: Ferrari F40 1990
Brand: Ferrari

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Created on May 18, 2016

Text:

Bruno von Rotz

Photos:

Daniel Reinhard

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Ferrari F40 (1990) - 0 to 100 km/h in less than five seconds

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Ferrari F40 (1990) - wide wheels, low center of gravity

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Ferrari F40 (1990) - the F40 can unfold its talent on the country road

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Ferrari F40 (1990) - 1315 units were built

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Ferrari F40 (1990) - good aerodynamic efficiency results in a high top speed

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Ferrari F40 (1990) - the body surface is only interrupted by ventilation openings

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Ferrari F40 (1990) - one of the most sought-after classics of modern times

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Ferrari F40 (1990) - if you accelerate properly, you seem to fly ...

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Ferrari F40 (1990) - the design is attributed to Fioravanti

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Ferrari F40 (1990) - the limits are high

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Ferrari F40 (1990) - you don't even get close to the limit in normal road traffic

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Ferrari F40 (1990) - driving fast could hardly be more fun

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Ferrari F40 (1990) - with four round rear lights

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Ferrari F40 (1990) - only a sports car could look like this

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Ferrari F40 (1990) - only 1250 kg including 120 liters of petrol

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Ferrari F40 (1990) - towards the horizon

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Ferrari F40 (1990) - the rear window is not really transparent

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Ferrari F40 (1990) - top speed of over 320 km/h

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Ferrari F40 (1990) - almost like on the Hunaudières straight

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Ferrari F40 (1990) - sits flat on the road

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Ferrari F40 (1990) - one of the few Ferrari sports cars with a rear wing

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Ferrari F40 (1990) - as a driver, however, you hardly have an eye for the Alps anymore

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Ferrari F40 (1990) - looks as good as it drives

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Ferrari F40 (1990) - immediately and clearly recognizable

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Ferrari F40 (1990) - Folding headlights allowed the front to be kept low

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Ferrari F40 (1990) - simple and functional, like a racing car

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Ferrari F40 (1990) - the Ferrari sign on the nose

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Ferrari F40 (1990) - the rear is packed with technology

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Ferrari F40 (1990) - eight cylinders, 2.9 liter displacement and 478 hp

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Ferrari F40 (1990) - the intercoolers are from Behr

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Ferrari F40 (1990) - here the music is - a little - muted

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Ferrari F40 (1990) - Earplugs and flat plug fuses on board the sports car

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Summary

1315 Ferrari F40s were built in Maranello from 1987 onwards; today they are classics and are traded at high prices. They are real driver's cars that show you how driving worked in the analog age. Few cars of the 1980s have been written about and talked about as much as the F40. So do we need another report on this mid-engined sports car? Probably not, which is why we tackled it from a different angle in our driving report.

This article contains the following chapters

The opposite of the 250 GTO
Investment property
Over 40 Fiat Panda
For fetching bread rolls
Race car aesthetics
Tenor of passion
The over-turbo
Actually a 367 LM-GT
Not a show car
For loners
For border crossers
Earplugs and fuses
But not an everyday car
Further information

Estimated reading time: 7min

Preview (beginning of the article)

The Ferrari F40 is certainly one of the most famous modern sports cars from the car manufacturer from Maranello. More has been written about it (also on Zwischengas) than about most of Enzo Ferrari's other products, so this report is intended to shed light on the mid-engined fast racing car from a different angle ... and show it. Although the Ferrari F40 was born out of a similar mindset to the legendary Ferrari 250 GTO, it is actually the pure opposite of the sixties front-engined sports car. Not only because the drive unit now sits in front of the rear axle instead of behind the front axle, but also because the 250 GTO was a racing car that could also be driven on the road, whereas the F40 is a road-going sports car that was designed like a racing car. This worked so well that some examples were actually converted into racing cars and achieved impressive results.

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