Ferrari 250 GTOAccording to Autos Craze…
1. There is no such thing as “Ferrari red.” Buyers can order any shade of red.
2. One of the most popular models, Dino, named after Enzo Ferrari’s son, was never badged a Ferrari because of it only had a six-cylinder Fiat engine.
3. Woodridge, Ontario, Canada may have the highest per capita concentration of Ferrari’s in North America.
4. 75% of the production run cars are V-8s despite Ferrari being built upon a 12-cylinder reputation.
5. 90,000 of 120,000 Ferraris produced in the past 60 years are still on the road.
6. Ferrari makes engines for Maserati in their Maranello factory.
7. You too can own a Ferrari Formula 1 car. A Grand-Prix winning racer deiven by Michael Shumacher went at auction for $2.7million (U.S.)
8. Ferrari’s prancing horse symbol was first used by an Italian World War pilot, and was later entrusted to Enzo Ferrari.
9. The slowest Ferrari, the V-12 Scaglietti, goes 0 to 60 in 4.2 seconds. The fastest, the F430, does it in 3.6 seconds.
10. Marlboro pays Ferrari’s F-1 team around $200 million (U.S.) a year, despite a cigarette-as ban in many countries.
According to Eric Reguly of The Globe and Mail.
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