12 interesting facts about Ferrari

1. Ferrari of Italy is the oldest and most successful team left in the Formula One championship.
2. Enzo Ferrari is the founder of the Ferrari range of cars. Apart from the mobile, Ferrari also has perfumes, sunglasses and laptop computers under its brand name.
3. Enzo Ferrari never intended to produce road cars when he had formed Scuderia Ferrari in 1929 as a sponsor for amateur drivers headquartered in Modena.
4. In 1943 the Ferrari factory moved to Maranello, where it has remained ever since.
5. The first Ferrari road car was the 1947 125 S, powered by a 1.5 L V12 engine
6. Ferrari cars not only come in Red, the factory also offers a choice of 18 colours.
7. The famous symbol of the Ferrari race team is the Cavallino Rampante ("prancing horse") black prancing stallion on a yellow shield, usually with the letters S F (for Scuderia Ferrari), with three stripes of green, white and red (the Italian national colors) at the top.
8. Best selling Ferrari of all is the 1986-89 328 GTS (6,068 made).
9. The world’s fastest Ferrari, the F60, was debuted in April 2002.
10. Most expensive Ferrari was a 250GTO which changed hands for £7.2m ($12m).
11. The automatic transmission was introduced in 976 Ferrari 400GT.
12. On May 17, 2009 in Maranello, Italy, a 1957 250 Testa Rossa (TR) was auctioned, by RM Auctions and Sotheby's, for $12.1 Million - a world record for the most expensive car ever sold at an auction.