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For many the Ferrari F40 is the most important Ferrari road car built, if only because it is the final Ferrari design brought to fruition during Enzo Ferrari's lifetime. The last of an epic era, the F40 was designed as the culmination of Ferrari's forty years as a constructor of road and race cars. It also reflects Ferrari's long history in competition, incorporating many technical features which were developed in racing, then perfected for use on the road during the F40's development. It compromises little for performance, rejecting nearly all sound deadening, trim and accessories in its obsessive search for light weight. The double wishbone suspension is, except for the loads it has to carry, directly taken from Ferrari's Formula One cars. The engine, too, is F1-related, an all-alloy V8 with dual water cooled IHI turbochargers and air-air Behr intercoolers, Weber-Marelli electronically controlled port fuel injection, four valves per cylinder, dual overhead camshafts and dry sump lubrication. Displacing just 2,936cc, with boost running just over one atmosphere at maximum output, the F40 produced 478 brake horsepower at 7,800rpm and 424lb-ft torque at 4,500rpm, 163 brake horsepower per liter. With less than 3,000 pounds to move, the F40's power to weight ratio, 6¼ pounds per horsepower, was nothing short of breathtaking. The F40's three branch exhaust system was among its many imaginative features. Two branches handled the main exhaust through the turbochargers while a third branch managed the occasional flow from the turbos' wastegates. As much attention as Ferrari's designers paid to the engine's airflow, they paid even more to those around and through the car itself, spending hours in the wind tunnel to develop the undercar air flow – a science then in its infancy – directing air to the rear diffusers which complement the effect of the rear wing, the numerous NACA ducts feeding air to the cockpit, 13.1" brake discs and engine, and minimizing parasitic drag on the F40's very small frontal area. Neat features abound, like the vents in the clear composite rear window which not only exhaust air from the engine compartment but also direct to over and under the airfoil for greater downforce at speed. Ferrari initially proposed building under 1,000 of these commemorative supercars but demand was such that Ferrari caved in to the wishes of its owners and eventually built 1,315. They have become highly prized collectors' items and the mystique of the F40 has not been lessened by subsequent Ferrari supercars; its quiet insistence upon uncompromised performance and high tech features still sets it apart as the Ferrari supercar car of the committed, enthusiastic, sophisticated collector. It's thus no reason that one of these fabulously powerful, highly engineered, technically sophisticated Ferraris came to be in the collection of Michael Amalfitano. Widely recognized as superior in technology and performance to Porsche's vaunted all wheel drive 959, its contemporary competition, the Amalfi F40 has one other notable distinction: while many of them were snapped up by speculators to be preserved in as-delivered condition, this example actually has accumulated miles, just over 12,000 of them to date. Yet, it has been carefully, even obsessively, maintained in nearly like new condition. A U.S. delivery model – important to those who wish actually to enjoy the experience of F40 performance instead of regarding it passively as an object – its only concession to creature comforts is the air conditioning with which it was fitted as standard and the power-operated rollup windows which Ferrari made part of the F40's equipment early in the production run. It is finished in Rosso Corsa with black interior appointments and red cloth covered racing seats. The clear plastic shipping covers still protect the interior carbon fiber sill panels. It was acquired as a new car by Mike Amalfitano from Miller Motorcars on November 30, 1990. Shortly after leavi