Why the limited production numbers?

Yes, your lazy but this fact is pretty obscure.

Whenever the press would ask Enzo how many of a model would be produced for the world market, he would smile and say "one less than the demand"!

In other words, Ferraris would always be exclusive for the chosen few, and there would always be a person with the $$$$ to buy one that was disappointed that not enough were made!

The odd numbers of 288GTOs F40s and F50s and now the Enzo are continuations of this Maranello tradition.

Of course more than this quantity are required because at least two have to pass Federal crash tests, intentionally wrecked, then returned to Ferrari and crushed.

 

FWIW The Enzo was announced at 249, then worldwide demand convinced Ferrari to do 50 more, to 299! You do the math! $700K x 50.

 

Naaaaah - market was ripe for 400 - logical conclusion meant 399 was 1 less for exclusivity.

 

Alan it was 349 then 399,the limited production is to remain exclusive and therefore keep the prices high.

 

You're right, dam_ typo!

Teach me to try to talk that early in the morning! 399 is it.

 

Logic dictates that unless you are in the market for one,
What does it matter how many they make.

 

Ferrari is a financial company 1st and a sports car company 2nd.
How many engineering-businesses... base production & manufacturing on protecting investment wealth for multi millionaires? They should have built 1000 cars and brought the unit price down to $400,000. In the last 5 years, Enzo has been the only exotic car to peak my interest out of Ferrari, yet they found a way to f*ck up the price and the going rate is $1.2 million. I guess I'll have to look at a 612, 575 or 400hp 360... sorry but none of those are my idea of an exotic car.


Also, ferrari was some-what built on the idea of treating rich people like they didn't matter. There is a bit of class-war from old Europe that lingers in the past and the way Enzo treated important people. Enzo and Ferrari today still like people "wanting ferrari" more than people actually driving ferrari. (4 year waiting list, its just a joke)

Its sad, but its another reason to hope Lambo continues to dominate the mid-engine EXOTIC 12 in the $300k price range.... and Lambo will hopefully take the Gallardo in the $200k price range and smooths out the body a little more (performance is already top in class) over the next few years.

Lambo puts the driver first. I like that.... try earning $200,000 now-a-days, its not as easy as it use to be. And it feels a lot better to give that hard earned money to a company that treats you right!
I've never liked playing games.

 

F40 was the enigma. They wanted low production too for that model and then there was so much demand that they decided to make over 1,000. Even so, they were selling for a $million at the height of the craze.

 

The F40 represented the best days of Ferrari.
A company making exotic cars and race cars that could not be mistaken for anything else!

Now its a GT company that makes one Exotic that no one can afford to enjoy ( $40k for a brake job )

 

I have to go with Mark on this one. I mean I know there such badass cars still but I mean now I know why most are garage queens.

 

Looked pretty apparent to me.

 

Initial run on F40s was limited, but the rumor is that when Enzo Ferrari found out what owners were planning on doing (e.g. Nigel Mansell sold his for 1M+), he ordered another run to push total production over 1000. These were owners who had pre-selected by the factory as deserving of a supercar and for some of them to look at the car as just a short-term investment ticked off The Man.

I don't know how true this is, given that Ferrari died very shortly after introducing the F40.