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Driven
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Fits to a T: Conquests. That’s what the 2008 California was all about. Opening up the Ferrari experience to a whole new audience. And, boy, did it work: In the ...
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Masterwork: The concept of “specialness” is deeply relative when it comes to new Ferraris, inasmuch as even the carmaker’s most pedestrian offering, the Califo...
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Open Season: To many enthusiasts, there’s just something right about a convertible. Coupes may be the choice for track use and ultimate performance, but open ca...
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Buyer's Guides
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Modern Classic: OVER ITS DECADE-LONG PRODUCTION RUN, the Ferrari 308 GTB/GTS became the company’s most-prolific model ever. Replacing such a beloved car wouldn’t b...
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Sweet Spot: Looking for a fast, rugged, reliable and relatively inexpensive Ferrari to race or take to the occasional track day? Look no further than the F430 ...
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Supercar for Four: Ferrari’s four-seat “family cars” have always held an unusual place in the marque’s lineup. While they are neither as fast nor sporting nor visuall...
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Classics
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Crossroads: Prior to the introduction of the 250 GT, Ferrari built touring cars in runs of one to as many as five. These 166s, 195s and 212 Inters wore bodies ...
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McQueen's Machine: Knowledgeable Ferrari enthusiasts will immediately spot this car’s unusual rearview mirror, and may remark upon the not-quite-right red hue, but ot...
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The It Car: To adequately describe this car, we’d have to call it a 1957 Ferrari 250 GT LWB Berlinetta Scaglietti “Tour de France,” three-louver version. That’...
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Restorations
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Blue Swan: When I first met this 330 GTS (s/n 09627), it was skewered like a chicken on a chassis rotisserie at Scott Drnek’s Virtuoso Performance shop in Hay...
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The Coachbuilder's Art: The coachbuilding era was in decline by the 1950s, yet the decade still produced some amazing machines. At the 1953 Salone Dell’ Automobile Di Tori...
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Right the First Time: A quick glance at this 250 GT SWB (s/n 3337GT) reveals a handsome, pristine, steel-bodied, factory-correct Ferrari. But s/n 3337, approximately the...
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Modified
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Tribute TR: Peter Giacobbi is one of the most accomplished car guys you’ve never heard of. He was director of engineering for John DeLorean’s ill-fated car com...
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Red Menace: It takes just a cursory glance at Dave Diesen’s 308 GTB (s/n 22703) to see that this car has been modified with a singular purpose in mind: to go f...
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Competition Conversion: When I decided to do this,” Jim Busby tells me of his inspiration two years ago, “I thought to myself, what if somebody had walked into Enzo Ferrar...
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People
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Piero on Ferrari: Name someone who has actively worked at Ferrari since 1965. My list starts and stops with one man—Piero Ferrari. Piero, son of company founder Enzo...
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The Short, Happy Life of Tom Cole: You may never have heard of Thomas Lionel Howard Cole, better known as Tommy, but in the late 1940s and early ’50s, this young Englishman was a rac...
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Horse Talk: In 1999, Marco Mattiacci, then working for a strategic consultancy firm in London, got a call from Maranello, Italy. Ferrari wanted to hire the the...
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History
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Heart Transplant: Contact. Sitting in the cockpit of his single-seat, three-point hydroplane, Dody Jost activates the fuel pump and runs the engine a few seconds usi...
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The Last Testa Fissa: This year, one of the earliest Scuderia Ferrari Alfa Romeos returned to the Mille Miglia, where it had won its class in 1934. The car is a 1933 Alf...
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Westward, Ho!: My father, John Edgar, drove and my mother, Gerry, rode next to him, on his left. I sat in back thinking about the weekend’s sports-car races in Pa...
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Racing
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Winning Formula: The Ferrari Challenge bills itself as a series for “gentlemen” drivers—and that’s true insofar as no professional racers can be found on the grid. ...
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The New Privateers: LAST OCTOBER, the roar of barely muffled Ferrari V8 engines ripped through the air at NOLA Motorsports Park near New Orleans, Louisiana. With more ...
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Italian Heritage: In his book, Sailing from Byzantium, Collin Wells describes the courage of the Italian humanists who, after the fall of Constantinople, bravely col...
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