The Ferrari F40 Legacy Tour has just come to an end. A convoy of dozens of hundred cars, all painted red, toured the picturesque Tuscany in Italy.
The spectacular convoy was part of the 2023 Ferrari Cavalcade Classiche, which brought together some of the finest cars that the Italians have ever built. The mid-engine rear-wheel drive sports automobiles toured Tuscany for two days.
The event kicked off in Forte dei Marmi, a seaside town at the Tyrrhenian Sea, surrounded by the Apennine Mountains. The Ferraris drove to San Miniato, in the province of Pisa, then to Lucca, up to the Piazza Duomo in Pietrasanta, in Northern Tuscany.
The challenging 10.2-kilometer (6.3-mile) Passo dell’Abetone, famous for being a significant part of the Mille Miglia (the 1,000-mile race), was also included in the tour.
The Ferrari F40 convoy then went to Modena and the Fiorano race track, before turning to the company's factory in Maranello and making a special comeback home.
The tour gave the owners of the iconic F40s the chance to drive their cars as they are supposed to be driven: cruising along scenic routes and turning heads along the way. Each day, they had to drive for over 200 kilometers (124 miles).
The second and only son of Enzo Ferrari, Piero, was behind the wheel of an F50 in the 2023 Cavalcade Classiche, while his grandson, Enzo Mattiolli Ferrari, was on board an F40, driving the classic for the first time in the Legacy Tour.
Designed for the band's 40th anniversary, the F40 was the last Ferrari to be personally approved by Enzo Ferrari. In 1987, when it entered production, it was the company’s fastest, most powerful, and most expensive production car.
The model is powered by the legendary 2.9-liter twin-turbocharged Tipo V8 engine, linked to a five-speed manual gearbox. The V8 delivered 471 horsepower (478 PS) and 577 Nm (426 lb-ft) in the European spec, while the cars for the US market got 477 horsepower (484 PS). Those figures were enough for an acceleration from 0 to 100 kph (62 mph) in 4.7 seconds. The needle of the speedometer could reach 321 kph (199 mph), which was pretty impressive at the time.
One of the over 1,000-unit run was the one that belonged to Formula 1 driver Nigel Mansell. In 1990, the car sold for a then-record price of 1 million pounds in a Bonhams auction.
Ferrari was planning to build 400 hundred F40s, with a factory suggested retail price of approximately $400,000 (around $1,030,000 in today’s money). The car changed hands again, in 2014, but the price was far from the record.
But high demand made the Ferrari head honchos change their minds. A total of 1,311 to 1,315 cars eventually were built between 1987 and 1992. 213 of them were exported to the United States.
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