To celebrate Ferrari’s 40th anniversary, it was decided that the company would produce a mid-engine, rear wheel drive, two-door coupe sports car. It would be the fastest, most powerful car the company had ever built. This car, appropriately enough, would be called the Ferrari F40.

The Ferrari F40 was built from 1987 to 1992, with racing variants in both the LM and GTE racing classes which were produced until 1994 and 1996 respectively. It was intended as the successor to the Ferrari 288 GTO, which itself had been one of the fastest production Ferrari models ever built (up to that point in time.)

The Ferrari F40 was built out of Enzo’s desire to leave a legacy in his final supercar. His vision was to build a street legal vehicle that was developed directly from a track-ready race car. Ironically, the F40, which was the byproduct of that vision, came into being by unfortunate happenstance.

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