FERRARI (Italy) 1946 to date

The great Enzo Ferrari, closely connected for many years (until the end of 1938) with Alfa Romeo, built a few sports cars bearing his own name and his prancing horse badge, inherited from World War One air ace Francesco Baracca, in 1940, but real car production did not start until after the end of World War Two.

In 1969, Ferrari became part of the Fiat empire, but Enzo Ferrari stayed on as head of his works at Maranello, near Modena. Some Fiat parts were used on his very early sports cars, but when Colombo designed new cars after the war, they were a "pure" Ferrari product with dohc 1.5 litre, 2 litre and 2.5 litre V12 engines in various stages of tune. After 1950, Lampredi designed 4.5 litre and also 2 litre (4 cylinder) sports and racing cars for Maranello, where V12s of 4.1 litres, 4.5 litres and even 4.9 litres were built. Many superb and powerful sports cars have left the Maranello works over the years, some developing over 400 bhp.

Ferraris won Le Mans as well as many championships all over the world, and built numerous fast cars with V-engines from 6 to 12 cylinders with double ohc valve gear. Ferrari has adopted flat-12 engines in his Formula 1 racing cars. In 1955 Ferrari took over the 2.5 litre F-1 Lancias; from 1961 onwards, Ferrari competition cars have been rear-engined.

There have, however, been many superb front-engined production models, like the 275 GTB with a 300bhp 3.3 litre V12 and the 300bhp 4 litre V12 330 GT and GTC. Then there have been the 2 litre mid-engined 180bhp V6 Dino GT, and 365 GTB4 with a 4.4 litre 352bhp V12 and the mid-engined dohc 2.9-litre 352bhp V12 plus, the mid-engined dohc 2.9 litre 308 GTB/GTS and the 4.8 litre V12 400 and 400 GT, successors to the 365 GT; these are coupés with Pininfarina bodywork. Another modern Ferrari, the BB 512, houses an ohc 4.9 litre flat-12 engine.

1957 Ferrari 410 Superfast
1961 Ferrari 250 GTE 2+2
1963 Ferrari 400 Superamerica
1964 Ferrari 250/275 LM
1965 Ferrari 275 GTB
1967 Ferrari 275 GTS/4 NART
1967 Ferrari 330 GTC
1968 Ferrari 365 GT 2+2
1969 Ferrari 365 GT
1971 Ferrari 365 GTB4 Daytona
1972 Dino 246 GT
1972 Dino 246 GT
1973 Dino 246 GT
1973 Ferrari 365 GTB4 Daytona
1975 Ferrari 308 GT4
1978 Ferrari 308 GTS
1978 Ferrari BB 512
1978 Ferrari BB 512
1979 Ferrari 308 GTS
1979 Ferrari 308 GTS
1981 Ferrari 308 GTSI
1984 Ferrari 308 GTSI
1984 Ferrari 308 GTSI Quattrovalvole
1985 Ferrari 308 GTSI Quattrovalvole
1986 Ferrari 328 GTS

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