Ferrari 360

This car even American students can not afford, even though it is the weakest and the cheapest models from Ferrari – a model for beginners. Ferrari 360 Modena worth 130 000 euros.
400 HP, which has the engine, allow to drive as you like. The name of Ferrari we associate a representation not only of a sports car, but a myth. Legend of motorsport. There is a sense of speed at first sight. Form, spent in the wind lab, structural details, usually used in cars, “Formula 1″. A special role is played here by air flow. The air passing through the machine by a special tube, presses the car to the pavement. It is so unfortunate, that the firm has refused to even a spoiler on the tail. Motor red with silver tubes – a special joy to the eye. It is so beautiful that designers decided to make a bonnet – rear – transparent. For fans of the Ferrari – it’s the best showcase in the world. Just as one kind of small steel shift knob, moving to a shiny steel wings.
“The sound of an unwinding motor delivers exceptional pleasure and can therefore be a driver hears his left ear,” – said with delight the driver.
Engine volume of 3.6 liters of an 8 cylinder, made in the so-called five-valve technology. 400 hp Aspirated. The machine is equipped with the ability to choose one of two styles of movement. More sports and more “road.” True, in a standard, “Road” option, you can feel all the charm of a fast ride – agility, quickness acceleration. To select the style, just press just one button that controls the electronics – a system of ASR, which keeps the car on track and allows the driver to lose control of the machine. Continue reading →

February 18, 1898 – August 14, 1988

Forty years ago at a factory owned by Enzo Ferrari came to the then President of Italy, Giovanni Gronchi. After examining the company, he said to the owner: “You are here sits up late at night. Why?” Legendary businessman said: “Working without rest, no time to think about death.” Ferrari is not evil. He spent 90 years in time to see how the brand his name has become a cult in the world of racing.

Pilot Alfa-Romeo

For the first time in the world of cars met Enzo Ferrari at the age of ten when his father and older brother took him to racing. That was in 1908. At age 13, son of the owner of a humble locksmith from the town of Modena took the wheel of his father’s car. But the First World War, and went racing on the periphery of public life. Private Ferrari shod mules and wagons repaired artillery.And after the war, could not find a job: free places for Italian companies was much smaller than the number of returning soldiers from the front.
Intuition prompted Ferrari: Do not grasp at any offer of employment, the world of motors, which he had dreamed of, be sure to open doors. So it happened. The automotive industry after the war began to grow rapidly, and Enzo was a test machine in the company CMN. It would seem that the young driver pulled the lucky ticket. But in 1920 he did, as it might seem from the outside, ill-advised step came in a little-known company then Alfa-Romeo. Continue reading →

There are in the automotive world is very beautiful words, which seemed a long time come up with talented people to call their amazing machines – “Mercedes Benz”, “Rolls-Royce”, “Maserati”, “Alfa Romeo”, “Lambordini” ”Ferrari” … We certainly know that this is – first and last names of people who created these machines, but, gosh, what a pity that we, Russian, these few words – “Smirnov”, “Davidoff”, “Dry ”" Kalashnikov “… Listen, and yet these words, too beautiful, they were beautiful, having conquered the whole world, is not it? ”Ferrari” … This is perfect and predatory beauty, silhouette of the car of the future. ”Ferrari” – is a luxury and delight behind the wheel. ”Ferrari” – it’s adrenaline, “Formula 1″. ”Ferrari” – is not just a powerful bank account, it is – election.Enzo Ferrari was born to non-poor “Artisan Metal” in Modena in northern Italy, two years before the beginning of the twentieth century. The workshop was on the ground floor and the family lived on the second and the sound of hammers in the morning until the evening was the backdrop of his childhood. A young boy, Enzo wanted to become an opera singer or a sports journalist.These desires are not changed even purchase in 1903 (!) The father of the car. No, not the car – samobegloy wheelchair under the proud name of “De Dion Bouton” – just two dozen of these carriages were then in Modena. But Enzo was just five years. But when I turned ten, and he took their father with his elder brother in racing, “Bologna ring,” Enzo was taken aback a little – a racer, it will only racer! And after a year on the second race of his life he walked – three miles, through three fields, a railway, the dust and stones. The fact that he and his brother become celebrities, they were clear. But how to become famous with such a mundane name – a Ferrari, because Ferrari families in Modena, then it was full enough! But they just become known to the world, and they will necessarily take autographs, as they took their eyes from the winners of races and then the brothers began to think – each itself – the most beautiful painting: to compete in the steamed and frosted glass windows. Continue reading →