How Well Do You Know Ferrari?

The Ferrari California is Ferrari's front-engine, rear-wheel drive convertible best suited to the Pacific Coast Highway.

The McLaren F1 isn't a Ferrari, but you could be forgiven for getting this one wrong. The F1 was McLaren's first consumer car, though of course, few consumers could afford a carbon fiber car with a gold engine bay.

You wouldn't think a car with 591 horsepower and a $214,533 price tag could be considered a "starter" car, but with Ferrari, this is the case. The Ferrari Portofino is the front-engine retractable hard top convertible Ferrari sells to the newly minted Ferrari-aspiring wealthy.

Just as there is a Ferrari Enzo, named for the founder, Enzo himself named a Ferrari the Dino, after his son. The name has popped up over the years, in several models.

When Ferrari decided to name the Ferrari 812 Superfast the Superfast, it wasn't a joke. This insane car has a claimed top speed north of 200 mph, and a price north of $300,000. If you're brave, wealthy, and have access to a very long, straight, well paved, and abandoned road, this is the car for you.

Count Francesco Baracca was an ace pilot who painted a prancing pony on his planes, not unlike the one used by Ferrari. When he died, his squadron all painted a black version of the red horse on their planes as a tribute. Enzo Ferrari met Count Francesco Baracca's mother, and was told to use the horse on his cars, for luck. He did, and the company still does.

The Ferrari Auto Avio Costruzioni 815 was Enzo Ferrari's very first race car. Its lines are echoed in the early Ferrari designs, and it was the genesis of the brand.

Spider as in "GTS" refers to cars with removable tops. While Ferrari has been using this term for a long time, they aren't the only car company to do so.

Ferruccio Lamborghini owned an early Ferrari and thought the gearbox could be improved, and the engine tuned for more power. Ferruccio Lamborghini owned a tractor manufacturer, so he simply turned his existing infrastructure to making cars.

The Ferrari 125 S was the first Ferrari "civilians" could buy. It features a massive V12 engine, two seats, and not much else. Don't go on Autotrader looking for one though. Only two were built.

All Italian race cars use the color red, because red, or more specifically "rosso corsa" (racing red) is the Italian national racing color. Germany's color is white or silver, Britain's is green and France's is blue.

The Ferrari LaFerrari is the redundantly named, super-exclusive speed monster developed by Ferrari. Faster and better looking than the Enzo, it has more computers than an MIT professor's fondest dreams, and enough G-force to rip your face off.

Tom Selleck and his mustache made Magnum P.I. a hit, but the 308 GTS is what made grown men tune into it every week. Today, a 308 GTS will sell for between $40,000 and $100,000 depending on the condition it's in and how many miles are on the odometer.

The Ferrari Testarossa is the most un-Ferrari Ferrari. Big and heavy, with its dated looks, few would fawn over it these days, but in the 1980s, it was one of the most sought-after sports cars in the world.

The Pontiac GTO was John DeLorean's tribute to the Ferrari GTO. He knew the Pontiac was the "Led Blimp" to Ferrari's Led Zeppelin, but fake Rolexes are made for people who can't afford the real thing, still aspiring to it. So it was with the American GTO.

Gran Turismo Omologato is what GTO means. GT cars, for the uninitiated, refer to "grand tourers". Long before cars, the grand tour was a trip cultured, wealthy gentlemen were expected to take. It involved visiting the great cities on the Mediterranean in France, Italy, and Greece. As cars came along, they began to play a role in the grand tour. Omologato refers to homologation, an aspect of a lot of automobile racing.

The 410 Superamerica was introduced in the 1956 Brussels auto show, though its components were shown a year earlier in Paris. The Superamerica was originally meant to be a one-off, but soon it spawned several versions.

Maserati and Ferrari have the same parent company, and many a Maserati has an engine more or less the same as that in a Ferrari. While Ferraris are exquisitely built, however, Maseratis aren't. Maseratis are known for their huge panel gaps, poor gadgetry and interior touches that can be found in Dodge minivans. Still, a Maserati will cost upward of $80,000, so compared to a Ferrari, it's sort of a bargain?

Fiat-Chrysler owns Ferrari, and has facilitated some very interesting cross-pollination between its brands over the years. It masterminded the Lancia Stratos, with its legendary engine, and upped its games with manufacturing tricks taken from the prancing pony of Modena.

Cadillac's exquisite magnetic ride suspension system can monitor road conditions and adapt on the fly faster than any other system of its type. When Ferrari saw what it could do for Cadillac's massive, heavy CTS-V, it licensed the technology for all its modern cars, from the LaFerrari on down.

It is joked that the Ferrari 360 was named that because most of the older men who can afford one will wind up wildly spinning out of control the moment they get in, spinning a full 360 degrees.

Battista Farina, who later changed his surname to Pininfarina, is perhaps Ferrari's most celebrated designer, famous for the 275GTB, whose style has been imitated by countless other cars, not just by Ferrari.

Ducati was also from Modena, and because of the local origin of the symbol, used the prancing pony logo in its early days. This practice was dropped, one assumes from an agreement with Ferrari, but no one knows why.

The only thing about the 2019 588 Pista that is as astonishing as its performance is its price. The 710 horsepower mid-life-crisis-mobile costs an eye watering $256,550, or about $361.33 per horsepower.

In 2008, when money was free and we all thought the banks knew what they were doing, Ferrari shipped 6,587 units. Then the financial crisis hit. In 2009, Ferrari shipped 6,250 units. By 2011, that number was up to 7,001. In 2017, Ferrari shipped 8,398 units.

Engineer Rory Byrne was the chief designer for Scuderia Ferrari from 1996 to 2006, but since then he has continued to work for them as a consultant.

Ford once made a bid to buy Ferrari. When Enzo learned that the racing team would be scrapped, he pulled out of the deal, and the brass at ford decided to take aim at Ferrari. They spent years developing the GT40, a mid-engine V8 driven car designed to take on the Ferraris with their V12s at the 24 hours of LeMans. It eventually worked, and every few years, Ford makes a new version of this legendary race car, for private use.

While the "i" in "iPhone" and "iMac" stands for "internet" it's unclear what "i" stands for in the BMW "i8". Still, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, "I" or "i" stood for fuel injection, giving us the VW Golf GTI, and the Ferrari 400 Automatic i.

BB or Berlinetta Boxer refers to the boxer configuration of flat 12 engine in some Ferraris. While many V12s in the red cars are V12s, the flat 12s have their place too.

Yes, you read that right. This collector's item sold for $52 million, making it the most expensive Ferrari of all time. That makes the car $172,185.43 per horsepower.

Perhaps the most striking of all Ferrari designs, the Ferrari 330 P4 looked like a space ship, which matched the stratospheric price it scored at auction.

The name of the Ferrari 375MM Coupe Scaglietti is about as long as its hood, which is long. Of course, if you make a tiny sports car and then wedge a V12 in there, you need room.

The Ferrari SP12 EC was a special project (hence SP) for Eric Clapton, based on the Ferrari 458.

The Ferrari J50 may have been based on an all-modern 488 Spider (targa top) but it had a whiff of the great Ferraris of the 1980s about it.

The name rather gives it away. While Ferrari makes some powerful cars, they are by no means the biggest power-freaks in Italy. Pagani's engines, which are sourced from AMG in Germany, are monsters. Lamborghini and its Audi parent make astonishingly powerful cars. The tiny Tuscan company Mazanti's new car The Millecavalli (might as well be Machiavelli as it means "one thousand horses") is the king of the hill, boasting an absolutely bonkers 1,000 BHP and 885 lb-ft of torque. Ferrari may be great, but by this metric, they aren't out in front.