#512 Testarossa

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Ferrari 512 TR

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Ferrari Testarossa 512 TR

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Ferrari 512 TR at Laguna Seca during the Rolex Monterey Rolex Reunion, 2024

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Michael Jordan stepping out of his Ferrari on his way to suit up for a Bulls game, 1992.

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Ferrari Testarossa at Cassandra's Motorsports Open House (2023) in Pewaukee, WI.

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After more than 50 special commissions, Pininfarina was given the responsibility of creating a Ferrari tailored to the needs of Prince Abdul Azim, son of Hassanal Bolkiah, better known as the Sultan of Brunei. And among those needs, the challenge was included that this Ferrari had a sequential gearbox, with a device that automates the disengagement and engagement process, so that a touch on a button, or a lever, was enough to change gears. A very common solution in these times, in which the standard for a sports car is a good automatic transmission with dual-clutch technology, but also an almost crazy idea, due to how complex it would be to achieve optimal and refined performance, when Azim commissioned from Pininfarina in 1994. 

Paolo Garella, head of prototypes and special projects at Pininfarina, would entrust the task of adapting its sequential change to the vee-shaped twelve-cylinder engine of the Ferrari Testarossa - which would be the basis of this creation - to Prodrive. That Ferrari FX would have, as it could not be less, with a completely new bodywork, the work of Pininfarina. The Italian study would be in charge of creating a body completely assembled in carbon fiber, a solution that was quite a surprise at the beginning of the 1990s due to the complexity and cost of the process to create the panels.

Its aesthetics could hardly hide the fact that a Ferrari Testarossa and a Ferrari 512 TR are hidden under it, with the improvements that Ferrari applied on the basis of the original Testarossa. And it will probably surprise you, and a lot, that in its design, especially on its front, we already find details such as generous, very rounded air inlets, in contrast to the sharp lines of the Testarossa, which already resemble, very much, the Ferrari 360 Modena that we would not know until 1999.

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what? Ferrari 512 TR

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Ferrari Testarossa

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Joelle & Ferrari 512 TR [Explore - 2024-02-16] by Romeo Heger Via Flickr: I think that the fantastic model Joelle harmonizes perfectly with the red Ferrari Testarossa. The shooting with Joelle took place in the Classic Car Refugium building in Filderstadt / Germany. The Ferrari 512 TR is now a rare sports car and I was happy to get it in front of my camera.

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