F40 is an abbreviation of the forty-Ferrari and the car was designed to commemorate the forty-year aniversary innauguration Ferrari in creating the best product. The pricetag initial this car is about $ 415,000. It is remarkable, is a great pride to Ferrari.
Because of this ultra high pricetag is only 1300 cars produced for retail. The car was made between the years 1987-1992 and made of ultra light material once, its design is very possible to be used for racing. Today, these cars can be purchased used from around 56 Kand above.
The F40 was a car with a mission. In 1987 Enzo Ferrari was in his 90th year, and celebrating his 40th anniversary as a car-maker. He was growing frail, and knew this would be his last major milestone. He could look back on almost a hundred GP wins, eight Fl world championships, nine Le Mans wins and thousands of other victories. With undimmed pride, he planned to crown it all with the undisputed king of road cars, the fastest Ferrari of them all. In his own words “the best Ferrari ever” The F40.
Ferrari, quite magnificently, stage-managed its launch at the Maranello factory in ]uly 1987. But there was substance behind the showmanship. The F40 was a genuinely great car, and it put Ferrari back where he believed he belonged. For a few months, the bristling-with-technology Porsche 959 had overtaken Ferrari’s 288 GTO as the fastest road car in the world. The F40 brought the crown back to Maranello.
When it was introduced it was the fastest road car ever built, full stop. Its claimed top speed of 201 mph marked the first time that a road car had bettered 200. The 959 managed ‘only’ 197. And the F40 would reach 60mph in 3.5 seconds (factory claimed time), where the 959 wanted 3.7. To argue which was really the better car is meaningless. The F40 had the headlines.
It was completely unlike Stuttgart’s complex four-wheel-drive supercar. It was essentially simple. Instead of the 959’s electronic control systems, clever six-speed gearbox, and the luxuries of leather, air-conditioning and top-level hi-fi, the F40 took the race car approach of maximum power, minimum weight and classic rear-wheel drive.
The F40 was developed from the 288 GTO via the 288 Evoluzione. The latest leaps in aerodynamics gave it an aggressively angular shape (by Pininfarina), dominated by massive scoops and wings. A new generation of tyres gave it a low, super-wide stance. Lightweight materials and new construction methods helped shed a substantial 135kg. Out went the 288 GTO’s surprisingly plush trim and generous equipment levels in favour of the spartan, stripped-bare look of the racer. Instead of the 288’s ventilated leather seats it had thinly padded highbacked racing-style shells. Where the GTO had carpets and suede Alcantara trim, the F40 had naked Kevlar and carbonfibre. Each skeletal door weighed just 1.5kg; there were no carpets, electric windows, central locking, not even proper door handles just Mini-style cord pulls.
