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ARTICLES RELATED TO Ferrari - The Cavallino Rampante | | | |  Ferrari - The Cavallino Rampante: Encyclopedia II - Ferrari - The Cavallino RampanteThe famous symbol of the Ferrari race team is a black prancing horse on yellow shield-shaped background, usually with the letters S F for Scuderia Ferrari, and with three stripes of the Italian national colors green-white-red on top. The road cars have a rectangular badge on the front hood (see picture above).
Curiously, a similar black horse on a yellow shield is the Coat of Arms of the German city of Stuttgart. This name is derived from Stutengarten, an ancient form of the modern German word Gestüt, whic ...
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| | | | Ferrari - The Cavallino Rampante: Encyclopedia II - Ferrari - List of models Until the mid-1990s, Ferrari followed a three-number naming scheme based on engine displacement:
V6 and V8 models used the total displacement (in deciliters) for the first two digits and the number of cylinders as the third. Thus, the 206 was a 2.0 L V6-powered vehicle, while the 348 used a 3.4 L V8.
V12 models used the displacement (in cubic centimeters) of one cylinder. Therefore, the famed 365 Daytona had a 4380 cc V12.
Flat twelve (boxer) models used the displacement in liters. Therefore, the 512BB was five liter flat 12 ...
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| | | | Ferrari - The Cavallino Rampante: Encyclopedia II - Ferrari - Rosso Corsa Since the 1920s, Italian race cars of Alfa Romeo, Maserati and later Ferrari and Abarth were (and often still are) painted in "race red" (Rosso Corsa). This was the customary national racing color of Italy, as recommended between the World Wars by the organisations that later would become the FIA. In that scheme, French cars like Bugatti were blue, German like BMW and Porsche white (since 1934 also Si ...
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| | | | Ferrari - The Cavallino Rampante: Encyclopedia II - Ferrari - History
Ferrari - 1929-1946.
Founder Enzo Ferrari never intended to produce road cars when he formed Scuderia Ferrari in 1929 as a sponsor for amateur drivers headquartered in Modena. Ferrari prepared and successfully raced various drivers in Alfa Romeo cars until 1938, when he was officially hired by Alfa as head of their racing department.
In 1940, upon learning of the company's plan to absorb his beloved Scuderia and take control of his racing efforts, he quit Alfa. Because he was prohibited by co ...
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| | | | Ferrari - The Cavallino Rampante: Encyclopedia II - Ferrari - Racing Main article: Scuderia Ferrari
Enzo Ferrari's true passion, despite his extensive road car business, was always auto racing. His Scuderia started as an independent sponsor for drivers in various cars, but soon became the Alfa Romeo in-house racing team. After Ferrari's departure from Alfa, he began to design and produce cars of his own; the Ferrari team first appeared on the European grand prix sc ...
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