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法拉利(Ferrari S.p.A)是一家意大利汽车生产商,主要制造一级方程式赛车、赛车及高性能跑车,1929年由恩佐·法拉利创办。早期的法拉利赞助赛车手及生产赛车,1946年独立生产汽车,其后变成今日的规模,现在由菲亚特汽车集团拥有,总部设于意大利蒙地拿(Modena)附近的马拉内罗(Maranello)。

1929-1946
在1929年创办法拉利车队时,恩佐·法拉利原本无意制造跑车,他只作为业余车手的赞助人。法拉利以改装阿尔法·罗密欧的跑车成功参与赛事,至1938年,他被阿尔法·罗密欧聘请作为赛车部的主管。

1940年,恩佐得悉阿尔法·罗密欧计划把其心爱的法拉利车队收购并夺取控制权,便离开阿尔法·罗密欧。但由于合约的限制,他暂时不能参与赛车,而法拉利车队则变成Auto Avio Costruzioni Ferrari,制造机械工具及飞机配件。唯一生产的汽车则为Tipo 815,成为首部真正的法拉利汽车。但由于第二次世界大战,竞争不太激烈。1943年,法拉利工厂迁至Maranello,1944年遭受轰炸,1946年重建并加建了街车生产设施,作为提供车队经费的来源。

1945至今
第一部设计供一般道路行驶的法拉利街车是1947年的125S,以1.5升V12发动机推动。恩佐为了赚取经费予其赛车队法拉利车队,迫不得已才制造及售卖此跑车。法拉利跑车很快便获得优良的名声。

法拉利的跑车以漂亮及流畅的线条闻名,不少设计是由著名设计工作室如宾尼法利纳负责设计,其他参与设计的工作室包括Scaglietti、Bertone、Touring、Ghia及Vignale。

在2008年,菲亚特集团拥有法拉利75%股权,Mubadala Development Company则持有15%股权,而恩佐的儿子皮埃罗·法拉利(Piero Ferrari)则持有10%股权。
法拉利著名的跃马标志来自于第一次世界大战意大利排名第一的空战英雄Francesco Baracca的座机标志,Baracca于一次大战中战机被奥地利高射炮击中阵亡。其母于1923年法拉利赛车获胜时将其座机上的跃马标志给予恩佐·法拉利使用,并于创办法拉利车厂后作为车厂的商标,黄色是法拉利故乡摩德纳市的代表颜色,上方的绿白红是意大利国旗。

恩佐·法拉利认为自己制造的跑车,是“会呼吸的艺术品”,因而他不忍心见到这些珍品,在赛道被撞击而糟蹋。他又认为像美国要求进口车必须经过撞击测验,“用艺术品来撞击,真野蛮!”,所以像TESTAROSSA这些名贵的法拉利跑车,销往美国的时间都较欧洲晚些。而法拉利对於设计的跑车相关资讯,始终守口如瓶。

法拉利的言行十分神秘,在世时只对完全不懂造车工艺的新闻记者开放工厂.虽然自己是赛车手出身,却从不参加其他赛车典礼.平生很少离开车厂所在地的马洛连诺市,生活相当平淡,使渴望知道他更多背景的人们愈发迷惑。

正因为法拉利一直刻意採取高度神秘的策略,造就了法拉利跑车的魅力与吸引力,成为千万车迷的梦中情人。但是,法拉利去世后,他的义子,也是法拉利车厂副总裁皮耶洛,以“法拉利意象”(FERRARI IDEA)为主题,很有系统的披露了法拉利车厂的各项秘密档案,同时陈列九辆法拉利的经典之作名车,包括一九四九年完全由手工打造的巴尔基塔(BARCHETTA)在内。

这项空前的展览,首先在义大利佛罗伦斯启幕,随后在巴黎、慕尼黑各地巡回展出,最后在纽约收尾。公开的法拉利档案,内容相当丰富,包括十分精细的技术绘图及生动的空气动力模型,而最令人动容的,是法拉利以其家族专用的紫罗兰颜色墨水书就的警语-人必须不断工作,否则会有死亡念头.

就是这股冲劲,让法拉利车厂制造的跑车群,赢得五千场以上的赛事,包括九次F1世界冠军、十四座制造车商(MANUFACTURER)世界锦标、两座构造车商(CONSTRUCTOR)世界冠军、九次利曼(LEMANS)桂冠,以及八十五场以上的一级方程式大赛锦标,如此丰隆的战绩与辉煌的荣耀,堆砌成法拉利在世界汽车大赛里傲视全球的崇高地位,迄今无人能出其左右。

特别值得法拉利车迷铭感的,是飞雅特车厂在协助法拉利解除财务危机后,一直支持这匹主宰赛道的红鬃烈马,自由的奔腾,任意的飞驰,自然发展成熟的车款,继续採撷各项大赛的荣誉冠冕。虽然法拉利去世已生度春秋,飞雅特仍信守法拉利当年订下的“日产十七辆新车”的规矩,即使供不应求,也绝不增产,藉着这分云情高谊,维系了法拉利强调“技术和艺术均衡”的造车哲学,也让这匹主宰赛道的红鬃烈马,在车迷的脑海间描绘一则动人的传奇,那就是——永远的法拉利。

Ferrari S.p.A. is a multinational sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929, as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles as Ferrari S.p.A. in 1947. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One, where it has had great success. Ferrari road cars are generally seen as a symbol of luxury and wealth.

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. The road cars have a rectangular badge on the hood (see picture at top of page), and, optionally, the shield-shaped race logo on the sides of both front wings, close to the door.

On 17 June 1923, Enzo Ferrari won a race at the Savio track in Ravenna where he met the Countess Paolina, mother of Count Francesco Baracca, an ace of the Italian air force and national hero of World War I, who used to paint a horse on the side of his planes. The Countess asked Enzo to use this horse on his cars, suggesting that it would bring him good luck. The original "prancing horse" on Baracca's airplane was painted in red on a white cloud-like shape, but Ferrari chose to have the horse in black (as it had been painted as a sign of grief on Baracca's squadron planes after the pilot was killed in action) and he added a canary yellow background as this is the color of the city of Modena, his birthplace. The Ferrari horse was, from the very beginning, markedly different from the Baracca horse in most details, the most noticeable being the tail that in the original Baracca version was pointing downward.

Ferrari has used the cavallino rampante on official company stationery since 1929. Since the Spa 24 Hours of 9 July 1932, the cavallino rampante has been used on Alfa Romeos raced by Scuderia Ferrari.

The motif of a prancing horse is old, it can be found on ancient coins. A similar black horse on a yellow shield is the Coat of Arms of the German city of Stuttgart, home of Mercedes-Benz and the design bureau of Porsche, both being main competitors of Alfa and Ferrari in the 1930s. The city's name derives from Stutengarten, an ancient form of the German word Gestüt, which translates into English as stud farm and into Italian as scuderia. Porsche also includes the Stuttgart sign in its corporate logo, centred in the emblem of the state of Württemberg. Stuttgart's Rössle has both rear legs firmly planted on the soil, like Baracca's horse, but unlike Ferrari's cavallino.

Fabio Taglioni used the cavallino rampante on his Ducati motorbikes, as Taglioni was born at Lugo di Romagna like Baracca, and his father too was a military pilot during WWI (although not part of Baracca's squadron, as is sometimes mistakenly reported). As Ferrari's fame grew, Ducati abandoned the horse- perhaps the result of a private agreement between the two companies.

The cavallino rampante is the visual symbol of Ferrari. Cavallino Magazine uses the name, but not the logo. However, other companies use similar logos: Avanti, an Austrian company operating over 100 filling stations, uses a prancing horse logo which is nearly identical to Ferrari's, as does Iron Horse Bicycles and Norfolk Southern Railway.

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