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- Hi and welcome to Car
Stuff, I'm Scott Benjamin
- I'm Ben Bowlin, and today
we are talking about Ferrari.
That's right, the world
famous sports car company
founded by Enzo Ferrari way back in 1929
when he was only, get
this, Scott, 31 years old.
- That's pretty young.
- Yeah, and originally he
just built race cars, right?
- That's right, just race cars,
he built them from 1929
all the way through 1947
when he reluctantly began
to build his street cars.
- Yet the only reason
this guy started building
street legal cars is
because he had to support
his racing team and that first
year that they built them
in 1947 they only built two cars.
- Two cars, that's it,
that's really reluctant.
- Well how many are they making today?
- Today they are making
7,300 cars every year
and if you go all the way back to 1947,
they've only built about
130,000 cars, and that's it.
- Luckily we've got a
chance to check out some
in real life today just
behind us, right Scott?
- That's right, you wanna go see some?
- Yeah, let's do it.
- Wait, wait.
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- All of which leads us here
to a classic car of the future.
This is the 2015 Ferrari 458 Speciale.
- That's exactly right,
and this has been described
as a race car built for the streets.
In fact it's been called savage to drive.
It's got a 4.5 liter V-8 engine
that puts out nearly 600 horsepower.
- All of this translates to
0-60 in three seconds flat
and the top speed, I think
you'd want to know that,
it's 202 miles per hour.
- That is so fast, and
one thing you might notice
is this Ferrari is not red.
- Yeah, and that's weird
for a lot of people
because isn't red the
traditional color of a Ferrari?
- It is the traditional
color, but as of 2012,
only about 40% of all Ferraris are ordered
in traditional red.
Right now a lot of them
are coming in yellow,
and white is close on its heels.
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- And that's just one of the
Ferraris here at the show today.
There's so many more.
Thank you so much for watching,
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- That's right, and if you wanna learn
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Ferraris, whatever,
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