Ferrari Hypercars: The Inside Story of Maranello’s Quickest, Rarest Street Automobiles

This landmark ebook is the results of quite a few interviews with most of the best names in Ferrari historical past over quite a lot of a long time, and is loaded with tales and images by no means earlier than seen in print. Whereas most everybody thinks the Ferrari supercar/hypercar started with the 288 GTO, the primary such mannequin was the mighty 375 MM within the Fifties. Atmospheric artwork and flowing insightful textual content brilliantly weave via the next a long time, taking the reader behind the scenes into the manufacturing facility, design studios, auto exhibits, and on to the street and monitor, all the best way as much as in the present day’s mind-boggling $1.5 million 950 horsepower LaFerrari.

Meet the boys behind the automobiles, and what they noticed behind closed doorways. Learn the way an opportunity encounter with a BMW 3 Collection and never Group B was the actual flashpoint for the start of the 288 GTO, Sergio Pininfarina’s comment that triggered the Enzo’s radical form to turn into the ultimate design, why 1966’s radical 365 P was fitted with central steering a long time earlier than McLaren’s F1, the function Porsche’s 959 had within the creation of the F40, first hand insights on the early (and attempting) years of the Sergio Pininfarina-Enzo Ferrari relationship, and far more.

Richly illustrated on lustrous shiny paper with evocative interval imagery and beautiful up to date pictures of the automobiles, the manufacturing facility, design studios and the creators, this ebook is an element artwork, half thriller, and all historical past. This insightful, approachable treatise will enchantment to each auto fanatic and Ferrari fan.