Ferrari Story

Complete description of the 348 type

The cover photo represents an unusual way of "seeing" the new Ferrari 348 model through an aestetic detail of great effect such as the louvres of the air ducting on the door.

Ferrari is once again in the news with a new model, the 348 t, the "t" characterising the powerplant with a transversal gearbox just six months after the presentation of the updated version of the Mondial.

Once again Ferrari Story offers its readers an extremely complete documentation of the car, with a detailed study of the innovative technical features accompanied by exclusive illustrations.

Gianni Rogliatti

First pictures of Ferrari most secret place

The "Gestione Sportiva" produces racing cars: the lastest is the monoposto type 641 first shown on February 2nd and illustrated here on the cover. The specifications, still secret, stem from those of type 640.

Ferrari is synonimous of racing car: it is for this reason that is has looked like the right thing to devate an issue of this magazine to the "Gestione Sportiva" the most secret but also most fascination of all the departments.

Secrecy reasons prevented from showing more, to go looking over the shoulders of the skilled mechanics who assemble the thousand parts of a Formula 1 racer and tell the names of the team members, from the veterans of hundreds of races to the rookies. But nevertheless we believe this is a worthwhile "visit".

Gianni Rogliatti

The great Ferrari exhibition in Florence of 1990

The cover photo represents the original Ferrari Idea, that is the fabulous 12 cylinders 125 engine, the starting point from where it was created the marque of motor cars that became a legend.

Ferrari is the most famous Italian name in the world. It is therefore certain that the exhibition organised at the Belvedere Fort in Florence from 7 June to 30 September 1990 will turn out to be one of the most important attractions of the Florentine summer, as well as an oppurtinity not to be missed by Ferrari enthusiasts.

The linking of the name of Enzo Ferrari to those of the great masters of Italian art, many of the works of whom are housed in the Tuscan capital, was made with the expressed Board of Directors in homage to the man who, by making the motor car the principal objective of his life, made it a work of art.

Gianni Rogliatti

Condensed story of the most famous type

The cover of this issue shows three 250 types, namely from top to bottom the Vignale Mille Miglia spider, the Pininfarina coupé and the California by Scaglietti: the back cover shows the GTO, the Testarossa spider and the GT 2+2.

Ferrari is the great school of automotive technology: the more one delves into the details of the diffent models development of this manufacturer, the more amazing appears the enormous prolificness of its designers.

The family of the 250 types is certainly the largest, and it is the subject of this issue of Ferrari Story: the review of hundreds of assemby sheets has shown that more than fifty different variants have been tested if we take into consideration every matching of engine and chassis that have been used in different prototypess and for establishing the production models.

Gianni Rogliatti

Rare and famous types 4, 6 and 8 cylinder engines

The cover of this issue shows the monoposto tipo 500 which was raced in the years 1952-53 and was the car that Alberto Ascari drive to win two World championships: the car is presently at the Museo dell'Automobile di Torino, Carlo Biscaretti di Ruffia and it was Enzo Ferrari himself the donor.

Ferrari is a marque connected to the V12 engine but not only to that one: indeed some very interesting models had an engine with the cylinders in line, and among them we all recall the Testarossa, whose name was later adopted for a 12 cylinder as well.

In this issue of Ferrari Story we examine the origins of the Ferrari in line engines, with particular attention to the less known and therefore most fascinating types.

We should like to recall also the Alfa Romeo "bimotore" of 1935, a car made by the Scuderia Ferrari and that, technically speaking could be envisioned as equipped by a 16 cylinders in line unit, a power plant that arguably has no equal in the entire World production.

Gianni Rogliatti