"Enzo Ferrari was born in 1898. The first car wearing the "Ferrari" name was the 125,
a 1.5liters V12 sports car which appeared to be a racing car. From this car we can find Enzo's philosophy was always "Racing comes first". Other cars, especially those aimed at US market, were made to "subsidize my racing programmed", as he said. From the start to end, he was remaining a racing man, rather than a sports car manufacturer. Thereafter the company concentrated more on road cars that customers really want, thus emerged many excellent road cars such as Daytona, Dino, 308GTB and so on. To celebrate 40 years of production Ferrari built the F40, a road-legal racer, a twin turbo 3-litre 478 bhp 200mph super car…"
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