1980 Ferrari 512 BB
Aug 29, 2019
3 minutes
WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY JEFF KOCH
It seems hard to believe that Ferrari ever needed to play catch-up with anyone, but evidence suggests that the Berlinetta Boxer series wouldn’t have seen the light of day without prodding from Lamborghini. Ferrari was perfectly content to continue producing front-engine street machines, despite F1’s move to rear-engined cars: Enzo Ferrari felt that his customers might find a mid-engined street car too much of a challenge in real-world driving.
Still, the world was stunned when the upstart from Sant’Agata, Italy, launched the mid-engined Miura. Ferrari’s only street car with an engine behind the
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