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Ferrari is an Italian car manufacturer in the Formula
One World Championship, also involved in high-end
and high-performance race cars, supercars, and sports
cars. The company was founded by Enzo Ferrari in
1929. At first, Scuderia Ferrari sponsored drivers
and manufactured race cars; the company went into
independent car production in 1946, eventually became
Ferrari S.p.A., and is now controlled by the Fiat
group. The company is based in Maranello, near Modena,
Italy.
The first Ferrari road car was the 1947
125 S, powered by a 1.5 L V12 engine; Enzo reluctantly
built and sold his automobiles to fund the Scuderia.
While his beautiful and blazingly fast cars quickly
gained a reputation for excellence, Enzo maintained
a famous distaste for his customers, most of whom
he felt were buying his cars for the prestige and
not the performance. However, at one point, Enzo
Ferrari's cars were exceeded in performance by the
Spanish firm, Pegaso, which later went defunct. |
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