Ferrari Berlinetta Boxer

Berlinetta Boxer

INTERESTING FACTS

• A Ferrari Berlinetta Boxer is one of a series of cars produced by Ferrari in Italy between 1973 and 1984
• No BB was ever originally sold in North America, as Enzo did not believe it to be worth the cost of federalizing. However, third parties made conversions, and quite a few of them are now in the United States.
• Ferrari entered the mid-engined 12-cylinder fray with the Berlinetta Boxer in 1973.
• The first "Boxer" was the 365 GT4 BB shown at the 1971 Turin Motor Show.
• Designed to answer rival the Lamborghini Miura, the Berlinetta was finally released for sale in 1973 at the Paris Motor Show.
• 387 were built, with 88 in right-hand drive (of which 58 for the UK market), making it the rarest of all Berlinetta Boxers.
• The engine on the Boxer shared its internal dimensions with the V12 from the Daytona, but was spread out to 180° as on Ferrari's 1970 Formula One car and was mounted above a five-speed manual transmission.
• 929 BB 512 models were produced.
• The Bosch K-Jetronic CIS fuel injected BB 512i introduced in 1981 was the last of the series.
• 1,007 BB 512i models were produced.