Ferrari Story, 2000 issue
Ferrari & Pininfarina
On the cover: The Rossa a special by Pininfarina with mechanical components of the Ferrari 550 Maranello that was presented at the Turin Motor Show. With this car the Turinese coachbuilder celebrated at the same time its seventy years of activity and the 48 years of cooperation with Ferrari that began in 1952.
Ferrari and Pininfarina are doubtless the best known names in the automobile world each of them in its field of activity, the construction of superlative cars and the design and building of bodies of exemplary functionality and beauty. When both names are united in a single product, as it happens since 1952 we are witnessing the peak reached by the automobile industry.
Ferrari has celebrated recently its 50 years of activity and Pininfarina has reached 70 years since its birth, 48 of which have been devoted to building practically all the production models and designing those that Ferrari would build itself. Add to that many prototypes; it is an unequalled synergy with roots to be found in the meeting of two extraordinary characters whose parallel lives developed in a growing Italy that they helped to grow.
Enzo Ferrari was born in 1898 and in 1929 founded his scuderia that would become the basis of his enterprise but only in 1947 could align his first car on the starting grid. Battista "Pinin" Farina was born in 1893 and founded his own company in 1930 becoming soon famous in his own right but specially getting to think that the coachbuilder should no longer build specials for the very rich but to transform the special into a limited production to let a larger number of customers enjoy it.
This issue of Ferrari Story runs through the way both Companies have run together from the first cabriolet to the fantastic Rossa on the cover and other new types as well.
Gianni Rogliatti | 
