The Ferrari F40 (type F120) is a mid-engine, rear-wheel drive sports car designed by Nicola Materazzi and designed by Pininfarina.

It was produced from 1987 to 1993, with the LM, Competizione and GTE racing versions produced from 1994 to 1996.

As the successor to the 288 GTO (also designed by Materazzi), it was designed to celebrate Ferrari’s 40th anniversary and was the last Ferrari car to be personally approved by Enzo Ferrari.

At the time, it was the fastest, most powerful and most expensive Ferrari car on sale. The car debuted with a planned total production run of four hundred units and a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of approximately US$400,000 (five times the price of its predecessor, the 288 GTO in 1987 (US$1,110,000 today).

One of those cars, owned by Formula One driver Nigel Mansell, sold for a then-record £1 million in 1990, a record that stood until 2010. A total of 1,311 to 1,315 cars were built, of which 213 were destined for the United States. Power came from an enlarged, high-revving, twin-turbocharged, intercooled, 2,936 cc (2.9 L) four-stroke V8 engine from the 288 GTO, which generated a maximum power output of 478 bhp (471 hp; 352 kW) at… 7,000 rpm and 577 Nm (426 lbft) of torque at 4,000 rpm according to the manufacturer.

Transmission, torque curves and actual power output varied between vehicles. The F40 did without a catalytic converter until 1990, when US regulations made it mandatory for emissions control reasons. A side exhaust pipe carries the exhaust gases from each bank of cylinders, while a central pipe carries the gases released from the turbocharger bypass valve. The F40’s twin-turbocharged V8 engine was the last turbocharged Ferrari engine until the California T in 2014.