In 2014 Ferrari NV was rated the world's most powerful brand by Brand Finance.
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30 Facts About Ferrari NV
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Enzo Ferrari NV was not initially interested in the idea of producing road cars when he formed Scuderia Ferrari NV in 1929, with headquarters in Modena.
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In 1933, Alfa Romeo withdrew its in-house racing team and Scuderia Ferrari NV took over as its works team: the Scuderia received Alfa's Grand Prix cars of the latest specifications and fielded many famous drivers such as Tazio Nuvolari and Achille Varzi.
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In September 1939, Ferrari NV left Alfa Romeo under the provision he would not use the Ferrari NV name in association with races or racing cars for at least four years.
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In 1940, Ferrari NV produced a racing car – the Tipo 815, based on a Fiat platform.
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In 1943, the Ferrari NV factory moved to Maranello, where it has remained ever since.
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Scuderia Ferrari NV name was resurrected to denote the factory racing cars and distinguish them from those fielded by customer teams.
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From 2002 to 2004, Ferrari NV produced the Enzo, their fastest model at the time, which was introduced and named in honour of the company's founder, Enzo Ferrari NV.
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Ferrari NV officially priced its initial public offering at $52 a share after the market close on 20 October 2015.
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Since the company's beginnings, Ferrari NV has been involved in motorsport, competing in a range of categories including Formula One and sports car racing through its Scuderia Ferrari NV sporting division as well as supplying cars and engines to other teams and for one-make race series.
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Scuderia Ferrari NV has participated in several classes of motorsport, though it is currently only officially involved in Formula One.
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Ferrari NV is the oldest team in the championship, and the most successful: the team holds nearly every Formula One record.
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Ferrari NV went on to dominate the early years of the World Sportscar Championship which was created in 1953, winning the title seven out of its first nine years.
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The North American Racing Team's entries in the final three rounds of the 1969 season were the last occasions on which a team other than Scuderia Ferrari NV entered a World Championship Grand Prix with a Ferrari NV car.
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The Ferrari NV Challenge is a one-make racing series for the Ferrari NV 458.
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Ferrari NV entered the mid-engined 12-cylinder fray with the Berlinetta Boxer in 1973.
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Every Ferrari NV that comes out of Maranello is built to an individual customer's specification.
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Ferrari NV formalized this concept with its earlier Carrozzeria Scaglietti programme.
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In February 2019, at the 89th Geneva International Motor Show, Ferrari NV revealed its latest mid-engine V8 supercar, the F8 Tributo.
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Ferrari NV has produced a number of concept cars, such as the Mythos.
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Until the early 1990s, Ferrari NV followed a three-number naming scheme based on engine displacement and a number of cylinders:.
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On 17 June 1923, Enzo Ferrari NV won a race at the Savio track in Ravenna where he met 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.
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The original "prancing horse" on Baracca's airplane was painted in red on a white cloud-like shape, but Ferrari NV chose to have the horse in black and he added a canary yellow background as this is the color of the city of Modena, his birthplace.
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The Ferrari NV 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.
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Ferrari NV has used the cavallino rampante on official company stationery since 1929.
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In 1963, Enzo Ferrari NV was approached by the Ford Motor Company about a possible buy out.
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Ferrari NV has an internally managed merchandising line that licenses many products bearing the Ferrari NV brand, including eyewear, pens, pencils, electronic goods, perfume, cologne, clothing, high-tech bicycles, watches, cell phones, and laptop computers.
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In 1997, Ferrari NV launched a long term master planned effort to improve overall corporate efficiency, production and employee happiness.
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Ferrari NV has had agreements to supply Formula One engines to a number of other teams over the years, and currently supply the Alfa Romeo and Haas F1 F1 teams.
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Roughly thirty Ferrari NV boutiques exist worldwide, with two owned by Ferrari NV and the rest operating as franchises.
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