Ferrari N.V.
Another company that is even more so arguably one of the largest, most well-known worldwide in the supercar industry is Ferrari N.V.—the record-breaking company with one of the richest histories
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| Ferrari N.V. Headquarters |
Enzo Ferrari was an Italian born race car driver turned race car creator. He started off his career with the Scuderia Ferrari branch of Alfa Romeo in 1929 with headquarters located in Modena. This branch served the sole purpose of fielding Alfa Romeo racing cars. However, Ferrari’s goals became too large for the sub-branch, so he decided to break off and join the market as his own company in 1939. Although this led him to not be able to use his own name for the company for four years, as he had breached the contract with Alfa Romeo, he still successfully built his first fully independent race car in 1940. At the end of the four-year ban, the factory moved to Maranello where it has stayed up until current day. In the year 1947, the companies inception was officially recognized with the completion of the first Ferrari badged car. Enzo at this time had his only focus based on building the best racing cars of the time period but was forced into selling some of the cars to help make sure that the company could stay funded. However, profits became so significant that the company was able to go public in 1960 as the Società Esercizio Fabbriche Automobili e Corse S.p.A. The company continued to experience high levels of prosperity for many years to come. However, in the year of 1988, not long after the release of the Ferrari F40 which is highly regarded as the most famous car built by the company, Enzo Ferrari, the visionary creator of the company passed away. Though unfortunate, the corporation did not let its founders passing slow down the role that they had established. The corporation was officially renamed Ferrari S.p.A and production went onwards. However, with the death of Enzo Ferrari, Fiat S.p.A. saw the opportunity present itself to snag as many shares of the company as possible. By the end of the year, Fiat-owned 90% of the company. Fiat remained the
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| Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi |
Ferrari LaFerrari
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| Ferrari LaFerrari |
Through all of the extensive history that Ferrari N.V. has created for itself, no car has been more representative of its history than the Ferrari LaFerrari – reason being that the car is named Laferrari which means “the Ferrari”. The design of the car was the only car since 1973 that was completely created by Ferrari themselves and without their closest design partners Pinafarina. The Laferrari design was based off a very popular previous model known as the Ferrari FXX. It mirrored the curves and edges of the FXX but gave a slightly more modern touch to it. The finished product featured a carbon fibre monocoque structure and a total of 21 onboard computers. It also clocked in with a top speed exceeding 217 mph, and a 0 to 100 km/hr in just 2.4 seconds. This limited production supercar saw only 500 models of its original version ever made, and 210 models of its special edition Aperta the 70th birthday of the company, ever made. The standard editions cost a high price 1.15 million dollars and the Apertas cost an even higher 3.4 million dollars. However, with the limited quantity of both of these two cars, it was inevitable that the auction price would turn out very high for someone who was trying to cash out on one of these extremely rare machines. Turns out the price for auction was not only high but a record-breaking high. The original version sold at auction for 7 million and the Aperta at 10 million. Through the pride and prosperity Ferrari N.V. has seen, the Laferrari stands tall as an epitome of the companies success.
Sources:
http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-autos-geneva-ferrari-laferrari-debut-20130305-story.html
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