According to the official PR release, they reported that the founding date of the Italian car manufacturer "Ferrari" was March 12, 1947, but as a senior Ferrari fan, I agree with Ferrari's The official history of the car factory should be written from September 13, 1939, and Enzo Ferrari's racing history can be traced back to the Scuderia Ferrari team established on November 16, 1929. The Ferrari team, referred to as "SF", and its civilian car production belong to two departments, and the two offices are also a few blocks apart. It is the oldest and most successful car brand currently involved in motor sports, having won 16 championships in one championship. 10 annual manufacturer championships and 15 annual driver championships. That was the day in 1947 when the first car to bear the Ferrari badge: the 125?S rolled off the assembly line.
In 1969, Fiat acquired 50 shares of Ferrari and expanded its shares to 90 in 1988, the year Enzo Ferrari died. In October 2015, the reorganized Dutch EXOR?NV became Ferrari's new holding company (22.91), EXOR? NV is actually a private investment company founded by Fiat founder Giovanni Agnelli. Its most famous assets include 28.67 shares of FCA Automobile Group, and the Juventus football team, "The Economist" newspaper and a large number of companies, after Ferrari completed its reorganization, 67.09 shares were listed on the New York Stock Exchange as public shares, and the other 10 shares were owned by Enzo Ferrari's second son Piero Lardi Ferrari ( Piero Ratti Ferrari).
Picture: This is the original site of the birthplace of Ferrari in Modena, and it is also a must-visit pilgrimage site for all Ferrari fans.
Picture: Ferrari Museum, the museum is named after Enzo Ferrari’s eldest son who died young: Alfredo Ferrari.
Picture: Ferrari factory in Maranello.
Enzo Ferrari established the Scuderia Ferrari team in Modena on November 16, 1929. The team existed as the racing department of Alfa Romeo until 1932. From 1933, the team began to be responsible for the production and managed racing and continued until 1937. In 1939, when Enzo Ferrari left Alfa Romeo, he signed an agreement that he was not allowed to participate in events or operate a team within four years, and was not allowed to produce cars with his own brand. However, these terms were still valid until 1944, so in On September 13, 1939, Enzo Ferrari established a company called Auto Avio Costruzioni in Modena. Its main business was the production of aircraft parts, especially bearing ball heads, which were their "famous products" at the time. Because such products are mostly used in cars or motorcycles, AAC's products are also supplied to companies such as Piaggio. In December 1939, AAC was commissioned to produce two cars named Auto Avio Costruzioni Tipo. The 815 racing car was used to participate in the 1940 Mille Miglia event. Two units of this car were produced, one was damaged (No. 020), and the other (No. 021) was collected as an exhibit in the Province of Bologna. In 1943, after the headquarters moved to Maranello, 18 kilometers away from Modena, because the main business of AAC at this time was the production of aircraft parts, it was destroyed by Allied bombing in 1944 and rebuilt in 1945.
Picture: Although the Tipo 815 does not bear the Prancing Horse badge that Enzo Ferrari received in 1923, it is indeed the first car in Ferrari history.
Picture: Tipo 815 uses a Fiat inline 8-cylinder engine, OHV valvetrain, displacement 1496cc, maximum horsepower of 72 horses/5500 rpm, and a four-speed manual gearbox. The net weight is only 625 kg.
Or we should insert a paragraph about the life of the brand founder Enzo Ferrari as usual: Enzo Ferrari’s full name is Enzo Anselmo Giuseppe Maria Ferrari (Enzo Ansel Mo. Juppé Maria Ferrari), born on February 20, 1898, is the second son of the family. The place of birth is Modena, Italy, where the Ferrari car factory is now located. His father, Alfredo, was a local cast iron expert with superb skills and was very passionate about racing. As a child, Enzo Ferrari did not receive any formal education. Instead of education, he often learned sheet metal technology and casting technology from his father. In his spare time, he would accompany his father to the racing track to watch real racing competitions. When he was 10 years old, he witnessed Felice Nazzaro racing in Bologna. Winning the championship at Circuito di Bologna inspired him to become a racing driver.
During World War I, Enzo served in the 3rd Mountain Artillery Regiment of the Italian Army, while his father Alfredo and his brother Alfredo Jr. He died in 1916 after contracting the "Spanish Flu", and Enzo also became seriously ill during the second flu pandemic in 1918 and was forced to retire from the army. In 1919, after recovering from illness, Enzo Ferrari came to Milan, the automobile capital of Italy, hoping to find a job at Fiat, but was not accepted. In the end, he could only find a company called Costruzioni Meccaniche Nazionali. He served as a test driver and participated in his first race in the same year: the Parma-Poggio di Berceto hill climb race, and drove the CMN 15/20 to win the fourth place in the category. In 1920, Enzo joined Alfa Romeo's racing department as a racing driver, and won his first victory three years later. After winning three consecutive victories in 1924, in 1925, his friend Antonio Ascari (Antonio Ascari) Cary) passed away, which even made him doubt motor sports for a time. Later, on November 16, 1929, he established his own team within the Aiguai system and began to use the Prancing Horse logo received in 1923 as the team. emblem, while the yellow background color is Modena’s urban theme color. By the time his eldest son Dino was born in 1932, Enzo decided to leave his position as a racing driver and go behind the scenes to focus on the team's operations and technology development.
Picture: Taken in the pit room of the Monza circuit in 1923, the person sitting on the bench is Enzo Ferrari, and the person holding the cane is Nicola Romeo, also known as Alfa ?Founder of Romeo.
Between 1933 and 1945, the story about Enzo and Alfa Romeo and the racing world at that time may be left to be discussed in detail when I write a story about Enzo Ferrari in the future. After all, the purpose of this article is The focus is still on the development trajectory of the Ferrari factory itself.
Ferrari's first model with the Prancing Horse badge was the 125 S in 1947. The Prancing Horse logo was the family emblem on the fighter fuselage of the Italian ace pilot Francesco Baracca. It was also his lucky charm that he participated in 63 air battles and shot down 34 enemy planes. However, he was shot down and sacrificed by Austria on June 19, 1918. In 1923, Countess Paolina Baracca of the Francesco Baracca family presented it to Enzo Ferrari. Granted the right to use these "Prancing Horses", the lines were later modified and first appeared on the fenders of Alfa Romeo racing cars in 1929, which was the logo of the Scuderia Ferrari team. The Prancing Horse logo on Ferrari's first model, the 125?S, released in 1947, appeared as a brand emblem for the first time. Therefore, when Ferrari later launched limited editions and commemorative editions, March 12, 1947 was used as the source. Click to record history. On May 25, 1947, Franco Cortese (Franco Cortese) drove a Ferrari 125 S to participate in the race at the Rome Circuit and won. Then, at the 1951 F1 British Grand Prix, José Froilán González won the first F1 championship for Ferrari, and the track legend of the Prancing Horse began to be written at this time.
Picture: The Prancing Horse logo on Francesco Baracca's fighter jet was given to Enzo Ferrari by the Baracca family in 1923. After modification, it became Ferrari. The team logo has been used since 1929 and became the brand logo after 1947.
Picture: Taken in 1932, Mussolini is in the car, and Enzo Ferrari is wearing a floral tie in the back; and the model being inspected is Alfa Romeo's P3? 2600.
Picture: Many car review articles and videos today will always praise Alfa Romeo for using a Ferrari engine. However, if you look at it from another angle: without Alfa Romeo, there would be no Ferrari today. If we look at issues from a historical perspective in this way, will people's psychology become much calmer and more rational and objective?
1947 was definitely an extraordinary year for Enzo Ferrari. In that year, he opened the key to the future and the Ferrari automobile manufacturing company was established. In the same year, Ferrari developed the Ferrari Tipo 125 S named after itself, and applied the Prancing Horse logo on its body for the first time. In the following years, Ferrari successively launched Tipo 166, Tipo 195, Tipo 212, Tipo ?225 racing car and send these models to major automobile events in the world. Facts have proved that Enzo Ferrari achieved a lot during his years in Alfa Romeo. In 1951, the Ferrari Tipo 375 car won the championship in the Mile Miglaal Automobile Competition, and the larger displacement Tipo 410 also won the championship. After winning the 1,000-kilometer race in Buenos Aires, the Lancia racing car (D50) re-developed by Ferrari in 1956 participated in F1, the world's highest level automobile event, and won the annual championship, turning the early Ferrari cars into Taking the brand to a whole new level.
Picture: A photo of Enzo Ferrari and their first mass-produced car, the 125S, in 1947. Whether or not you have the skin is a trivial matter. The key is how fast you can run and how fast you are Ferrari. Mr. is most concerned about.
Picture: Except for Ferrari not participating in the first British round of the first F1 in 1950, it is still a must-see team in every race. Ferrari's first F1 car was the 125? F1. The Scuderia Ferrari team, founded in 1929, has won 16 manufacturer championships, 15 driver championships, and won 237 races.
However, Enzo Ferrari did not express all his passion for racing in the field of racing. Ferrari's technical staff will also use racing technology to feed civilian high-performance sports car products in the early stages, hoping to use sports cars to Its sales supported its huge expenditure in the racing field. Unfortunately, Ferrari's idea was not very practical in the early days. First of all, for a long time, Ferrari did not use assembly line production, so many models were often There were only a few dozen cars produced. Secondly, Enzo Ferrari was resistant to aerodynamics. Yes, even though today’s Ferrari always tells you about wind tunnels and aerodynamics, when Enzo was alive, the car factory was absolutely There won't be any aerodynamic development of body shapes, because Enzo Ferrari once said a famous saying: "Aerodynamics is reserved for people who can't build engines." Although the exterior design was handled by Bentley Ferrari Design Bureau, it still adopts the original method of "wooden frame shape", and the engine is basically a displacement change on the Colombo series, and was later added It was only after the Dino series that the V6 and V8 power systems came into existence. Therefore, to this day, Ferrari still regards V12 as its authentic model.
Picture: The 166 Inter, born in 1948, was the first street version of Ferrari put into production. It used a two-liter Colombo V12 engine, 90 horsepower, and a five-speed manual transmission. 38 cars were produced. vehicle.
Picture: In 1967, when the Ferrari team was on the verge of bankruptcy, he applied for financial assistance from the Fiat Group and negotiated with Fiat. Enzo would only be in charge of the racing department, and Fiat would produce Ferrari street cars. By 1969, Fiat Group owned 50 shares of Ferrari. In 1978, Enzo Ferrari suffered from severe kidney disease and had to slowly withdraw from the front line.
Picture: Screenshot of Enzo Ferrari and his 328 GTB and Testarossa being interviewed by a television station in 1987.
The research and development costs of new cars are too high, and profits cannot be guaranteed, let alone the expenses of supporting racing cars. In this way, Ferrari's financial deficit appears frequently every month, and some world-renowned car manufacturers are also gearing up to buy Ferrari immediately as it is exhausted. For example, the wealthy Ford Motor Company is one of them, but Enzo Ferrari resolutely rejected Ford's olive branch. The reason was that he believed that the Ford car brand did not meet Ferrari's own positioning. It was eventually acquired by the Italian Fiat Company, which Fiat acquired in 1969. acquired 50% of Ferrari's shares and expanded its shareholding ratio to 90% in 1988. In 1989, the company was renamed Ferrari S.p.A.; in October 2014, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) announced its intention to separate Ferrari S.p.A. from FCA and separate The work began in October 2015. After the reorganization, 22.91 shares of Ferrari N.V. belonged to Exor? N.V. Asset Management Company registered in the Netherlands. This company belongs to the family business founded by Fiat founder Giovanni Agnelli and became the new holding company of the Ferrari Group. , FCA subsequently sold 10 of its initial public offering shares and listed on the New York Stock Exchange, with 67.09 shares currently in public circulation. Through a series of separation steps, FCA's interest in the Ferrari business was distributed to FCA's shareholders, 10 of which continue to be owned by Piero Ferrari (the second son of Enzo Ferrari), all of which were separated in January 2016 Completed in 3 days.
Picture: Alfredo Ferrari (same name as his grandfather), nicknamed Alfredino or Dino, was born in 1932. Dino studied engineering in Switzerland and developed the 65° Dino series of V6 engines, and used them to build the 750?Monza, 156?F2 racing cars, etc. Unfortunately, he died young of muscular dystrophy on June 30, 1956. His death was a huge blow to Enzo Ferrari. .
Picture: The Ferrari engine, known as the Dino architecture, plays a decisive role in the development history of the car factory. In 1957, Enzo personally named this V6 engine the Dino series, and then there were later MR-V6 and V8 models such as 206 GT, 246 GT, Dino 308, etc. This lineage reaches the F131 of 360 Modena Temporarily over after the engine.
Picture: Piero Ferrari is the son of Enzo Ferrari and Lina Ruddy, and is also Enzo’s second son. Since divorce is illegal in Italy, It was not until the death of Enzo's wife Laura (Laura Dominica Garello) that he could be recognized as a member of the Ferrari family. Today, he owns 10 shares of Ferrari N.V.
On August 14, 1988, Enzo Ferrari passed away at the age of 90. His death is not regrettable, because he left Ferrari cars as a legacy to the world, and the Ferrari brand that he personally trained has already won the first place in the world's major competitions, and has been in the ascendant in the days since. In 1991, Fiat appointed Luca Cordero di Montezemolo (Luca Cordero di Montezemolo) to take charge of Ferrari's main decision-making power. After taking office, in addition to inviting famous generals such as Niki Lauda to help management In addition to the F1 team, more importantly, Ferrari has begun to carry out drastic reforms in its civilian product models, such as the introduction of more modern assembly line production processes, and the beginning of external procurement of spare parts in line with the trend of automobile development, such as Mahle, Bosch, Delphi, etc. Accessories of this type of brand are increasingly appearing on Ferrari cars. At the same time, these brands will also provide the most advanced but most expensive new technologies to Ferrari for use as a testing ground. Therefore, Ferrari cars are indeed expensive. , but it is reasonably expensive, because they also have to bear the cost of high "advancedness". If you can't see these and just think that Ferrari's expensiveness is just a symbol of "wealth and status", then your world view and view of cars are too superficial.
Picture: To commemorate the 40th anniversary of Ferrari’s founding, Ferrari launched the F40 sports car. It is also Ferrari’s fourth supercar model after the 250?LM, 250?GTO, and 288?GTO. It is also Enzo. The last model produced by Ferrari.
Picture: (1 on the right) Luca Cordero di Montezemolo joined Ferrari in 1973 and became Enzo Ferrari’s assistant. He became the team manager in 1974 and won the F1 championship with Niki Lauda from 1975 to 1977. He was appointed president of Ferrari by Fiat in November 1991 and resigned on September 10, 2014.
Picture: Having been in charge of Ferrari for 23 years, Mr. Montezemolo, as a professional manager, has played an indispensable role in reshaping "Ferrari" from a racing brand into a luxury brand.
Picture: Although the 456 GT has also been sold in China, it is not well-known. Its appearance has certain historical significance for Ferrari. This is after Mr. Montezemolo took charge of Ferrari. The first new model, along with the 550? Maranello, has become a small milestone in Ferrari's street car renaissance.
It was also after Montezemolo took charge of the Ferrari car factory that Ferrari officially, comprehensively and serially launched V8 and V12 sports car products of all generations. Starting from 1993, Ferrari only had two engine layout car series. : V8 is divided into two driving layout forms: MR-V8 and GT, both of which are entry-level sports cars or GT; V12 is also divided into two series: MR-V12 and GT. The former only launches super sports cars in the form of anniversary limited editions starting from F50. series; the latter is divided into two branches: two-door two-seat GT or two-door four-seat GT, which can be said to perform their own duties.
At present, after re-adjusting the lineup of various layouts and models, Ferrari's street car production volume can be said to be increasing year by year. By 2019, it finally achieved a breakthrough of 10,000 units. As of the end of 2019, Ferrari had built and sold 219,062 cars for the first time in the company's history.
I believe that after reading this article, you will have a deeper understanding of the Ferrari brand. Of course, this short article of more than 4,000 to 5,000 words cannot fully describe the Ferrari brand. Let’s go through the entire history of Ferrari, or leave it to the details later when introducing Ferrari’s sports car models.
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