Ferrari (undertaken)

Ferrari is a Italian Car manufacturer . The mark is emblematic, universally celebrates and conveys an image of Italy impregnated by the luxury and prestige.

The company, founded in 1947 by Enzo Ferrari, is specialized in the manufacture of top-of-the-range and powerful sport scars. Its creator, after having been the director of race of Alfa Romeo in Formula 1, decided to create his own brand, whose seat is with Maranello.

The mark with the Cheval pulled up ( cavallino crawling ) marked the history as much in the field of the automobile sport where its bright red unchains crowd of tifosi that in the field of the luxury where the quality of its production conquered richest. This emblem in the beginning was painted on the fuselage of the fighter plan of Francesco Baracca, heroic pilot and ace of the aviation of the First World War. The yellow is the color of the town of Modena.

The company

The company is located at Maranello to 18 km in the south of Modena (Modena) and to 40 km of Bologna, in Emilie-Romagna.

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One year after the death of Enzo Ferrari, FIAT become majority met the company under the cut of the “civils servant of Turin”, and five years after, in 1993, the company, given for dead, does not sell any more but: 2289 cars against still: 4595 two years before. At the time, even if the cars were recognized animals of race, their quality left something to be desired, they did not have any comfort and the completion was not without defect.

Ferrari is always today a subsidiary company of the group FIAT; to Maseratti, it provides engines about (: 7500 per annum) and the painting of its body. In June 2002, FIAT, burdened by a colossal debt, to resell 34% of Ferrari to the Italian financial group Mediobanca for an amount of 775 million euros had had to be solved; a setting out of purse had even been considered.

Giovanni Agnelli then names in 2004 with the head of Ferrari, Luca Cordero di Montezemolo which was the assistant of Enzo Ferrari. In 2005, the company sold: 5399 cars, and: 5743 in 2006, making progress its Turnover of 17%. The pressure of the dealers is today such as Ferrari could produce and sell more: 12000 cars per annum. However, the policy of the company is to remain closer to the craft industry than of the industrial production, more especially as there exists very a strong demand of cars made to measure.

The reorganization of FIAT, carried out by Sergio Marchionne, bearing her fruits, it put forward fine September 2006 an option of repurchase near Mediobanca which enabled him to recover 29% of Ferrari for approximately 800 million euros, carrying its control with 85%. The 5% remainders had been yielded by the bank to the funds of investments Mudabala of Dubai. Piero Ferrari, the son of Enzo has 10% more of the group.

: 38000 owners of old still under operation are incited to return their car to Maranello for the important repairs in order to track the wrecks, bad repairs and the counterfeited parts.

For the 60e birthday of the company, it was organized a Ferrari raid. Party on January 28th, 2007 of Abu Dhabi - éponyme city of a future park with topic - the relay crossed about fifty country for a concentration from June 21st to 24th 2007 to Maranello.

Ferrari and the sport

Before being an automobile mark, Ferrari was initially a racing stable.

Products

All the products which Ferrari manufactures are cars. One can classify these vehicles in four families:

Prototype
Model of series
Model of sport
Single-seat (for the automobile races of Formula 1, for example)
Model of exception

Anecdotes

the legend tells the following history (disputed). Francesco Baracca was a fighter pilot of great talent. At the end of a fierce combat against a German pilot originating in Stuttgart, Baracca killed its enemy. It would then have decided to endorse the emblem of unhappy, the pulled up horse extracts from the armorial bearings of the town of Stuttgart (of other sources tell that Baracca had chosen the horse pulled up because of its beginnings in the cavalry). In spite of its legendary chance (" to have the baracca"), the pilot ends up being cut down. Enzo Ferrari being a respondent of the family Baracca, it was seen offering carries it happiness of his/her friend, the " Cavalino rampante" that it raised proudly on its racing racing cars. Thus, would be explained the fact that Ferrari carry the same pulled up horse as that of the Porsche escutcheons (manufactured in Stuttgart)…
Enzo Ferrari lived the last years of its life in a house built within the site of Maranello.
an Australian customer had required a armoiriée painting, which was refused to him: Ferrari is not Rolls-Royce.
an English customer had asked for a hook of attachment to tractor draw its caravan, which was refused to him: Ferrari is not built to tractor draw a caravan in the camp-sites.
to have the right to acquire a Ferrari Enzo, it was necessary before to have bought at least three Ferrari and to have never had accident with Ferrari.
In 2006, the wheel of the car world champion was offered to Pape Benoît XVI with the following inscription: It flying campionne LED mondo Al controlled beyond christina (the wheel world champion with the pilot of chrétienneté.
the technical files of the company conceal more than two hundred and thousand documents.
the Ferrari museum of Maranello accommodates annually more than one hundred ninety thousand visitors.

Dimensions

Ferrari 330 TRI/LM 1962 (frame 0808), which gained in 1962 the 24 hours of Mans, with the pilots Phil Hill (American) and Olivier Gendebien (Belgian) was sold for 6,78 million euros in June 2007.
Ferrari 340/375 MM Berlinetta Competizione of 1953 was sold for 4,2 million euros in June 2007.

See too

Internal bond

Scuderia Ferrari

External bonds

Official site of Ferrari
nonofficial Site of Scuderia Ferrari
Ferrari of the future
Album photographs of Maranello and of the museum Ferrari
Data sheets, photographs, chassis numbers

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