2. Best selling Ferrari of all is the 1986-89 328 GTS (6,068 made)
3. One of Ferrari's most unusual projects was the "BIMOTORE" racer/record breaker. A single seater with an engine at both ends!
4. Enzo hated British GP teams, but in 1988 the Ferrari F1 chassis design HQ moved to Guildford, Surrey, UK. The car won first time out.
5. Enzo's company built a Fiat based sports car which led its class in the 1940 Mille Miglia until it blew up. Ferrari blamed the Fiat bits.
6. Fiat now own Ferrari.
7. Ferrari's only legitimate son, Alfredino - Dino - was born in 1932. He died of muscular dystrophy in 1956.
8. Enzo and his mistress, Lina Lardi, had another son, Piero, who holds 10% of the firm today.
9. The first GP Ferrari won was the 1949 Swiss, where Alberto Ascari drove a supercharged 125.
10. Also in 1949, a Ferrari took the first of nine Le Mans wins, including six in a row in 1960-65.
11. Enzo started wearing sunglasses in the '50s and did so until he died - even in his office.
12. Ferrari's "prancing horse" logo was given to Enzo by the Countess Baracca, whose late World War 1 flying ace son Francesco had used it as his emblem. Ferrari changed the color from white to yellow.
13. Enzo's mum, Adalgisa, and wife, Laura, hated each other - but they both shared a villa he bought them.
14. Ferrari's numbering system is based on the capacity in cc's of one cylinder. Starting with the 246 Dino, though, smaller cars went their own way: '24' stood for 2.4 litres while '6' was the number of cylinders. This continued up to the 348 but the F355 means 3.5 litre and 5 valves per cylinder.
15. Race cars were different: 'Tipo 158' stood for '1.5 litre, 8 cylinder' etc. The late 640 and 641 F1 cars were named after drawing office project numbers. The Tipo 126 however defies all the numbering systems!
16. The '58 V12 Testa Rossa got its name because its engine cam covers were painted bright red.
17. Ferrari was the first team to notch up 100 GP wins when Alain Prost won the 1990 French Grand Prix.
18. Ford tried to buy Ferrari for $18m in 1963 but the deal floundered when the Americans refused to allow Enzo to run the racing side. Fords response was to produce its own sports racer, the GT40.
19. Phil Hill's Dino 246 won the 1960 Italian GP - the last major victory for a front engined GP car.
20. Not every Ferrari costs a fortune. London auction house Sotherbys sold a '64 330GT for just £10,000 ($17,000) in 1985.
21. Col.Ronnie Hoare became the UK's Ferrari importer in 1960.
22. Tractor tycoon Ferruccio Lamborghini decided to make a supercar of his own after his complaints about the quality of his Ferrari were met with frosty indifference.
23. The "Ferrarina" was a pint sized version of the Testa Rossa designed by Ferrari engineer Giotto Bizzarini in 1958. It had a 1,000cc 91bhp all-alloy four cylinder engine and could reach 113mph.
24. When Enzo wasn't making cars he liked to relax by riding his (British) Rudge motorbike.
25. The mid-engined Dino 246GT was unique in that nowhere on the car did the word 'Ferrari' appear.
26. Enzo saw his first motor race aged 10, and could drive by the time he was 13.
27. Not all Ferrari spare parts cost a fortune. Ferrari's cheapest component is a 3c washer!
28. The most expensive is an exchange replacement Testa Rossa flat-12 engine at £16,447.85 ($28,000).
29. Fiat bought Ferrari in 1969, taking a 40% stake that eventually increased to 90%.
30. The 308GT4 is the only Ferrari designed by Bertone - most have been fashioned by Pininfarina.
31. "As a businessman he is excellent, as a human being he is a zero" - Mauro Forghieri once said of Enzo.
32. The 308GTB was the only Ferrari with Glassfibre bodywork. It was soon re-engineered in steel.
33. Ferrari almost made a four-door in 1980 with Pininfarina's 'Pinin' saloon - but Enzo said no.
34. Most expensive Ferrari was a 250GTO which changed hands for £7.2m ($12m).
35. The '89 Tipo 640 pioneered semi-automatic gears in F1. Nigel Mansell won its first race in Brazil.
36. Not all Ferrari's are red! The factory currently offer a choice of 18 colors.
37. Enzo's title, "Il Commendatore", was given by Italy's fascist king Victor Emmanuel III.
38. His factory was part government financed during WW2 so he could make tools for Mussolini.
39. Ferrari's president, Luca de Montezemolo has also managed 'Cinzano', Juventus and Italia '90.
40. Ferrari engines have been used in the Lancia Stratos, Lancia Thema 8.32 and the Fiat Dino.
41. The F50 was Ferrari's half century celebration. Just 349 were made.
42. Maserati was once Ferrari's bitterest rival. Now Ferrari runs Maserati - for Fiat!
43. Enzo's mother died in 1965 after, apparently, choking on a boiled egg.
44. The first Ferrari race victory was at Caracella, Rome in 1947.
45. In 1985 a 250LM brochure fetched £1,070 ($1,800) at auction - a world record.
46. The 1976 Ferrari 400GT was the first to come with an automatic gearbox.
47. Mike Hawthorn in a Ferrari was the first Brit to win a Championship GP (French '53). In the celebrations afterwards, he got a local girl pregnant!
48. No fewer than 13 British men have driven for the factory Ferrari team.
49. 88 drivers have raced for Ferrari, 32 have won a Grand Prix.
50. Enzo Ferrari died on 14th August 1988 in Modena.
SEAHORSE
It's not all cars, cars, cars you know. Enzo Ferrari once built a boat.
Back in 1953 Ferrari built a Hydroplane with a 4.5 litre version of the V12 from his F1 car.
This amazing machine broke the World speed record for its class at over 150mph and once hit 177mph!
ARNO XI was the brainchild of Mr Achille Castoldi who, with the help of racing drivers Luigi Villores and Alberto Ascari, persuaded Enzo Ferrari to build it at the factory at Marenello.
In 1953 Castoldi established the Worlds 800kg class record at 150.19mph on lake Iseo in northern Italy. The record still stands today. But Castoldi wasn't satisfied and in a subsequent attempt he acheived over 177mph over the measured kilometre. Sadly the cooling system failed on the return run, thus foiling the effort.
It was powered by a much modified version of the Type 375 V12 which gave Ferrari its first F1 Grand Prix victory in 1951, but 4.5 litres, twin spark heads, twin superchargers and methonol fuel boosted the boats power to over 550bhp at 7000rpm.
By 1960 ARNO XI was owned by Nando Dell'Orto who won the European Championship before allowing it to languish in a paper mill for 25 years. Since recent restoration it is now reputed to churn out over 600bhp! and is up for sale for around £750,000 ($1.1million).
FERRARI OSCARS
Ferrari's have stolen the show on screens big and small for years now. Here are a few of their more memorable leading roles:-
Scent of a Woman: Al Pacino takes a 1989 Mondial Cabriolet around downtown New York in his quest for ultimate experiences before topping himself. He's blind, but it doesn't seem to stop him.
Goldeneye: Forget the BMW Z3, the real star appears at the start as gorgeous Famke Janssen leads Bond around the hills above Monaco in her F355.
Magnum: The producers originally wanted a Porsche 928 but it had to be a convertible. Porsche were unwilling to set a can opener to their car, so the 308GTS stepped in.
Miami Vice: Sonny Crockett drove a replica Daytona, but fortunately for him the precinct later replaced it with a Testarossa.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off: How to take dad's 250GT Califoria for a spin.
The Gumball Rally: AC Cobra takes on Ferrari Daytona in cross country car race.
Hart to Hart: Ferrari Dino appears in the credit sequence - best bit really!
The Persuaders: Tony Curtis burns Dino rubber in this '70s TV classic.
David Niven drove a Ferrari 250 convertible in "The Return of the Pink Panther" in 1960.
Bulletproof - Adam Sandler stole a red f355 spider and drove it around
The Rock - Nicholas Cage stole a yellow f355 spider and drove it around San Francisco
Wild Things - Bill Murray pulls up to his law firm in a red f355 spider.
He Got Game - A Ferrari 348 Spider and a F355 Spider appeared in this one.
The Fast and the furious
