moner in amelo far from the gushing production lines of Milan and tyin this is where they make some of the most ravishing cars in the world Lamborghinis Maseratis damaso but above all Ferraris embattled behind his steel fence Enzo Ferrari Broods makes cars and issues orders inscrutable Huffy autocratic and 72 years old Ferrari wanted to be an opera singer but instead became an Italian hero as a racing driver he once ran the nearly Invincible Alpha Romeo team but fell out with the management when the Germans blew them off the tracks in the 30s when he left
Ferrari took away a grudge and some of Alpha's best designers his 1934 fascist party ticket never seemed to do him much good or harm and he never uses the title of commendator awarded him under the musolini regime he eulogizes on the people for Moder their gifts for engineering and for fast driving without being modest enough to exclude himself cars like this have made Ferrari famous with four Formula 1 World Constructor championships and most of the GT World Championships ever awarded Ferrari's fortunes are based firmly at the track since 1923 the Prancing horse has identified Ferraris
racing expertness at Maranello rubs off onto road cars that are sensual and emotive they can occupy the place in a man life once taken by his best hunter Ferraris have won LaMore more times than any other for Road use the Prancing horse is tamed and quarted but never broken merely processed at the drawing board the production animal a 365 2 plus2 like nearly every Ferrari racing car ever it has a 12 cylinder engine cost is secondary to craftsmanship exciting to drive excitingly engineered some ously furnished five gears and you can have air conditioning for about
the price of a mini less tax you get wood leather style and above all Prestige 4.4 L 150 mph 13 M to a gallon so even with a 22g tank petrol pumps are still only 250 M apart buy one in Britain and there's not much change from £99,000 at these prices Ferrari can afford Craftsman there's a strong craft tradition in Italy they make machines that have style Ferrari can afford extravagant engineering one reason for the speed and balance of a Ferrari is the lightweight casting techniques at Marinello in The Foundry an aluminium and silicone alloy
produces elaborate castings like this one for the complete sump differential and gearbox casing of the miden engine Dino it needs to be finished off by hand like a classical sculpture most of the 680 employees are paid at the going rate in the Italian motor industry even though it's said that there are more experts in their own field on the shop floor at Ferrari than at most of the world's car factories The Foundry forges another key to farad's success more perhaps the key to his independ dependance because the works has always been virtually self-sufficient they make
their own engines most of their own bits and pieces and though the bodies come in now by lri from pinin Farina where they are pressed out much like any other the proportion of bought in components is small that's why Ferrari has been able to resist efforts to take him over until worried about the fate of his creation he capitulated to feat last year [Music] the competition Workshop demonstrates Ferrari Precision a 12 cyinder crankshaft has a lot of work to do it must be accurate almost to watchmaking standards yet rotate at perhaps 8,000 revs a minute
in the road cars and up to 12,000 in the racers at Ferrari they machine it from a solid steel Billet from £67 at the start they pair off nearly £135 until it turns the scale at only 322 another time where Mr Ferrari overruled his cost accountant overhead cam shafts are only now becoming common on the cars you and I buy but Ferraris have been using them for 25 years the 4.4 l in the 365 GT has four of them light and compact it has six Twin choke cover AR Berettas made at the factory of Ferrari's
old friend Eduardo vber the valve gear works like a clock a few of the components are imported the assembly line doesn't need to be frantic when you make only 25 cars a week some with self-leveling suspension working conditions are important enough for the cars to be put together in an almost clinical atmosphere the floor is tiled cleaner than many a kitchen average wage is about £75 a month with incentive payments but despite the Almost Family climate Ferrari is not without its industrial problems last Autumn when the whole of the Italian industry was disrupted not even
Enzo could persuade his workers back but as long as the two unions agree the line moves on at its appointed 2 hour and 14-minute intervals an Italian rival for the Porsche Ferrari make about 500 dins a year in the fashionable mid-engine idium just like the real Sports Racers a well balanced highly strung sort of car this is the car Enzo Ferrari called after his son Dino who died of a virus disease in 1956 after working on the six-cylinder engine it uses the V6 engine gives it a slightly better performance than a well-tuned e Type Jaguar
four overhead cam shafts like a classic Ferrari four bearing crankshaft three twin choke vber carburetors but the cylinder block and crank case are C star even though traditional knockoff hubs have been replaced by five stud fixing the well-proportioned sporting look Remains the mid-engined layout restricts room for luggage but there's everything else you'd expect in a Ferrari the price in Britain 6,242 succession has constantly preoccupied the old man ever since Dino's death he's concerned having founded an Empire but not a dynasty he wanted to to guarantee the tradition the destiny of the cars that meant so
much to him to Moda to Italy even with no air the alternative was to guarantee corporate continuity and although against a takeover bid from Ford of Detroit last year he conceded 50% of his business to Fiat Fiat have built or provided the money to build an extension to the factory something like 10,000 extra square meters of floor have been laid down for a fat Dino assembly line for Ferrari employees are philosophical fat may be essential for survival but they don't want them to corrupt cars like the top of the Ferrari range the 365 gtb4 saral
black crackle finish of the cam boxes creamy textured castings practical viral Modern Art you can see a Ferrari engine and you can get at it close carpeted fully instrumented a place for making decisions and they' better not be the wrong ones [Music] [Music] sharp bursts of acceleration you can easily break the 70 mph barrier in second third is good for 145 if you find a straight on the autostrad Del solle you can do 174 a Ferrari is a Holland in Holland or a pie it's a Hardy Rod a Dunhill pipe or a set of clubs
from oone they're the cars for the Sweet Life and the sundrenched road buy any model you like as long as you have the money well not quite any model there was once a rich young prince who tried to enlist a Ferrari in pursuit of a rich young princess he wanted the 195 m r Sports racer and expected little change from £ 15,000 but he forgot that the only person who could sell him one was the stubborn old man in Marinello Ferrari didn't take to him he sent his check back with a Curt word it's too
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