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Unveiled at a ceremony in Maranello on 21 July 1987, the F40 celebrated 40 years of Ferrari car production.

Its name, legend has it, was born when Ferrari Managing Director Giovanni Razelli asked motoring journalist and author Gino Rancati what the new car should be called, and received an elegantly direct answer: "Ferrari Quarante."



Yet the F40 didn't start merely as an anniversary badge.

Spy photographs had already hinted at a successor to the 288 GTO, and the squat, winged prototype later dubbed the GTO Evoluzione was originally intended as the GTO's competition version.

When Group B was cancelled in the wake of tragedy at the Tour de Corse, the Evoluzione's original purpose vanished, but its engineering lessons did not.

What remained was an opportunity to build the most uncompromising road-going Ferrari of its era, shaped by turbocharged know-how and buoyed by the unexpected sales success of the 288 GTO.



Overseeing the effort was Nicola M...