Thursday, March 1, 2007

Maranello - Home of Ferrari

You know good things are to come when you are greeted at the front door by a prancing pony.


Things such as this... the pinnacle of all automotive technology - Michael Schumacher's 2005 Formula One Championship-winning car, the F2005. This is what over $50 million of design and development will buy you--the finest race car ever built.



The Enzo Ferrari - the bastard child of a Formula Car and a Stealth Fighter. 399 of these $650,000 cars were built. Ferrari (being the kind of snotty company they are, unlike the much more friendly Lamborghini) determined that their were 400 people in the world who would buy this car, so they built one less, just to ensure that everyone who wanted one would not be able to have one.


The F50, the direct predecessor to the Enzo Ferrari:



Cameron: The 1961 Ferrari 250GT California. Less than a hundred were made. My father spent three years restoring this car. It is his love, it is his passion.
Ferris: It is his fault he didn't lock the garage.



Here are some more photos of some of the various other cars on display.

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