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Most of what leaves Maranello now carries a front-axle lift, carbon-ceramic brakes and a hybrid system, and each of the three changes how the car is loaded.

1947 · Maranello, Italy

1987 Ferrari Testarossa

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Carrying a Ferrari

Front-axle lift is fitted across most of the modern range and raises the nose by roughly 40 mm. On an 812, an SF90 or a 296 it is engaged and confirmed at full travel before the front wheels reach the ramp break, and held up until all four wheels are on the deck. Lift alone does not solve a long front overhang: a 12Cilindri or an 812 has a shallow approach angle regardless of ride height, so the geometry is fixed with a level deck and extended ramps rather than by asking the suspension to make up the difference.

Carbon-ceramic discs are cold at load-in and give noticeably less initial bite than steel at walking pace. That is planned for, not discovered on the ramp. The hybrid cars — SF90, 296, 849 Testarossa — run a high-voltage pack alongside a 12-volt system with real parasitic draw; Ferrari's own conditioner is a rebadged CTEK unit with a magnetic or four-pin connector, and it goes on for any transit longer than a day. Michelin Cup 2 fitments flat-spot when they sit cold and loaded, so pressures are set at ambient and the car is rolled gently at both ends rather than driven off hard.

Securement is soft loop over the tire at four points. No strap touches the chassis, the suspension, the carbon underbody panels, or the paint-protection film that these cars almost always carry on the nose and sills.

In the current range

  • 296 GTB and 296 GTS
  • 849 Testarossa
  • 12Cilindri and 12Cilindri Spider
  • Amalfi
  • Purosangue
  • SF90 XX Stradale and Spider
  • F80

Collected

  • 250 GT series
  • 275 GTB/4
  • 365 GTB/4 Daytona
  • 288 GTO
  • F40
  • F50
  • Enzo
  • LaFerrari
  • F12tdf
  • 812 Competizione

The cars themselves

1966 Ferrari 275 GTB s/n 08549, long-nose steel body
1966 Ferrari 275 GTB s/n 08549, long-nose steel body

Photo: Mr.choppers, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

2001 Ferrari 550 Barchetta Pininfarina no. 135
2001 Ferrari 550 Barchetta Pininfarina no. 135

Photo: Mr.choppers, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Ferrari LaFerrari
Ferrari LaFerrari

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The marque

Enzo Ferrari ran Alfa Romeo's racing team before building cars under his own name. The first car to carry the badge, the 125 S, ran in 1947. Road cars existed to fund racing, and the road catalogue stayed small and deliberately supply-constrained for decades.

The works moved from Modena to Maranello in 1943 and have stayed there. The range now runs from front-engined twelve-cylinder cars to mid-engined plug-in hybrids and a four-door, all built on the same site.

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