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The aim of this Roma Spider in particular is to highlight innovative component production techniques, enabled through the use of special, refined supplies. Standing out among these is work on the fabric in the central panel of the seats with manual stitching that adopts leather from the interior and applies thread obtained from recycled tyres.

Enzo Mattioli Ferrari, a direct descendant of the legendary Enzo Ferrari and grandson of Piero, is the CEO of Ferrari Family Investments and Trustee of the Piero Ferrari Trust. An entrepreneur with a strong commitment to enhancing Italian heritage and promoting "Made in Italy" products, Enzo Mattioli Ferrari is a passionate enthusiast and, above all, an expert in the vintage automotive industry.

The 2024 season will go down as one of the most successful in Porsche's long-distance history: in just the second year with the Porsche 963, the sports car manufacturer from Stuttgart won seven of eight possible titles together with the works team Porsche Penske Motorsport. The basis for this result was the consistent improvement of the team structure as well as the work on the reliability and performance of the around 515 kW (700 PS) hybrid prototype.

The eponymous Pagani Automobili S.p.A was founded by Argentine-Italian Horacio Pagani in 1992, with the first production car, the Zonda C12, being presented at the 1999 Geneva Motor Show. This formed the backbone of production, with a number of bespoke variants, through to the introduction of the Huayra model in 2011, again at the Geneva Motor Show, with the production run also containing a number of bespoke examples.

Whereas the majority of museums feature a constant display theme, the pair of Ferrari museums in Maranello and Modena ring the changes with themed exhibitions through the course of the year. Thus, there is always a good reason for a return visit. The Ferrari Museum in Maranello also features its regular amphitheatre-style display of Formula One cars, with the entrance walls containing trophies and images of the drivers who have won them through the years.

In 2025, the legendary Mille Miglia victory by Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson will celebrate its 70th anniversary! The two pilots were competing for Mercedes-Benz in a 300 SLR. At 7:22 a.m. they rolled off the starting ramp in Brescia (hence the race number 722) and after 10 hours, 7 minutes and 48 seconds they had made it all the way to Rome and back. 1,000 miles at an average speed of 157.651 km/h on public roads, an eternal record!

On 18 February 2024, the new �Ferrari One of a Kind� exhibition at the Museo Enzo Ferrari in Modena was officially inaugurated. The display celebrates the craftsmanship behind each unique masterpiece that emerges from the Ferrari factory gates thanks to the exclusive personalisation programme offered by the company�s three Tailor Made centres in Maranello, New York and Shanghai. Now open to the public, the exhibition reveals the exclusivity of these one-of-a-kind cars, each expressing the personality, taste and desires of individual Ferrari owners.

Information about each model and .... every single Ferrari build - up to chassis number 15499

�La Macchina del tempo � Museo Storico Alfa Romeo� is the heart of a genuine �brand center�, with a bookshop, café, Documentation Center, test drive track, events venues and a show-room with a customer delivery area: it is the perfect bond between past, present and future. In Arese, next to Milan city center and the Expo area.

On the morning of Friday, 22 February 2025, �The I.C.E. Village� came alive around the parc fermé, an evocative open-air museum of amazing models that catalyzed the attention of visitors, car lovers and the media who attended the event from all over the world. A unique opportunity to meet and share the same passion for style and elegance at high altitude, en plein air.

The Museo Lamborghini is situated to the right of the main entrance of the factory in Sant�Agata Bolognese, which is a historic small town in the countryside, approximately mid way between Bologna and Modena. A bonus of its location right on the factory premises is that one will see cars being taken out on test, and maybe even spot the odd prototype. The factory is on the main SP 255, Via Modena, on the outskirts of the town, but within walking distance of the historic centre, and is still the site on which Ferruccio Lamborghini established the original factory in 1963.

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The Museo Lamborghini (Lamborghini Museum) fronts part of the Lamborghini factory on the SP255 Via Modena in Sant�Agata Bolognese, between Nonantola and San Giovanni in Persiceto, approximately a 30-minute drive from the centre of Modena. The modern glass fronted structure first opened in 2001 to present a timeline of the company�s production for enthusiasts of the marque, being updated and expanded in 2016, to provide more exhibition space as the range of cars increased through the years.

The Ferrari SF90 Stradale Assetto Fiorano has set the fastest lap recorded by a production car at the 2.439-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course, lapping the circuit at an impressive 1:29.625 seconds at a maximum speed of 174.6 mph to set this time. �It was a great moment to witness, seeing how the impressive performance of the Ferrari SF90 Stradale put down this lap record on July 15,� says Mark Raffauf, Senior Director of Race Operations at International Motor Sports Association (IMSA), which oversaw the test.

Hans Herrmann, one of the most successful and popular racing drivers to join the Porsche AG works team, will be celebrating his 90th birthday this year on February 23. The endurance and Monoposto specialist, born in Stuttgart in 1928, is regarded as one of the most reliable and consistent race drivers of all time. In the course of his motor sport career, Hans Herrmann won more than 80 overall and best of class victories, most of them for Porsche.

Ferrari opens its first Tailor Made Center in the United States today in New York City. The only space of its kind in the Americas, this new Center continues the long-standing tradition of car customization and personalization that began at the factory in Maranello in the 1950s and later grew into the inception of the Tailor Made Center in 2011, followed by the Shanghai Tailor Made Center in 2014.

Dave Nicholas has taken many shots of Ferrari's from Sebring 59-50-61-62 and some 64-65 and other major races in the North America. Latest updates ... "Results updates include complete nat'l races from Lime Rock and Marlboro 1957 to 1962. Bud Hofer donated some great shots from the Glen GP in 1961. Don Cooke gave us hundreds of shots and the first posted are a great glance at the very last Sunday race at Lime Rock in April 1959. These shots include the notorious Paul Richards trying to dry out the main straight in his Cessna ! A whole new look at Bridgehampton with shots from 1951, 1957, 1966, 1968."

Ferrari is proud to announce an exclusive Ferrari Daytona SP3 Tailor Made, a unique masterpiece that will be auctioned by RM Sotheby�s during the prestigious Monterey Car Week in California during August 2025. This one-of-a-kind vehicle has been meticulously crafted to embody the essence of Ferrari's innovation, luxury, and racing heritage.

The Concours of Elegance closed its doors on 07 September 2025 after another glorious event, held over three days in the gardens of Hampton Court Palace, in west London. The 14th edition of Europe�s premier concours d�elegance event, saw over 15,000 guests enjoy a jaw-dropping display of exquisite privately owned road and competition motor cars � spanning over 100 years of automotive history, parked up in the palace gardens.

For the second year in succession the Ferrari Owners� Club held their combined track day and annual concours at the Goodwood circuit in West Sussex over the weekend of 16-17 July, 2025. The gathering enjoyed pleasantly warm weather during the UK�s long hot and dry summer, which attracted a good turnout of members and their Ferraris over the weekend. Saturday was track day, which provided plenty of time for members to exercise their cars on the circuit, which, as it did last year, proved very popular.

Salon Privé presented by Aviva Private Clients celebrated its 20th anniversary in style at its regular venue of Blenheim Palace between 27-31 August 2025. The palace wasn�t looking its usual impressive self, as a multi-million-pound roof renovation project meant that much of its splendour was hidden by plastic sheeting clad scaffolding. Similarly, the normally bright green lawns looked a rather sad yellow due to the particularly dry summer.

The 2025 edition of the Goodwood Revival Meeting was held over the weekend of 12-14 September, once again attracting enormous crowds to the picturesque Sussex circuit for another sell-out meeting. This was despite somewhat inclement weather in the days leading up to the event, and also over the weekend, which made the car park fields somewhat quaggy in places, much to the dismay of those who became bogged down.

autoClássico, one of Portugal�s major classic car shows, was held at its regular venue of the city�s Exponor exhibition centre, close to the airport. Over the weekend of 3-5 October 2025 it attracted some 40,000 visitors. As with many classic car shows and events in 2025 there was a celebration of the 75th anniversary of Formula One, with displays in the main hall.

Some cars are born to be, and remain, timeless. They are �forever� cars because they embody that perfect blend of taste, passion, function, and performance that defines true masterpieces. Villa La Massa Excellence, an event dedicated to the most extraordinary supercars and hypercars of recent years, created in collaboration with Canossa, presented, on October 17 through 19, 2025 precisely this type of vehicle.

Over four days, the event drew approximately 238,000 visitors � its highest attendance to date. The circuit welcomed nearly 700 racing cars in action, while around 9,200 collector vehicles filled the display areas around the track, with even more gathered in the surrounding car parks. These cars represented 220 international clubs and more than 80 manufacturers. The competition covered an expanded historical spectrum: the six traditional racing grids were joined by three additional support �plateaux�, featuring cars ranging from 1923 to 2010.

The undulating Mugello circuit in the Tuscan hills, to the north of Florence, was the venue for the 2025 end of season Ferrari Finali Mondiali. Just as had been the case with the 2024 edition at Imola, the event was blighted by rain, although not to quite the same intensity. Nonetheless, it made for difficult conditions, whether one was a driver, official, engineer or a visitor. Despite the predominantly miserable weather there were some 25,000 attendees over the course of the weekend.

Thanks to the extraordinary result at the 8 Hours of Bahrain, the last race of the season, Ferrari has taken the Manufacturers� title in the 2025 FIA World Endurance Championship, 53 years after its last world title. The triumph was twofold, with the FIA World Endurance Drivers� Championship being taken by official drivers Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado and Antonio Giovinazzi at the wheel of the Ferrari � AF Corse 499P number 51, fourth at the chequered flag.

The 43rd annual Auto e Moto d�Epoca show was held for the third time at Bologna�s Fiere exhibition centre between 23-26 October 2025. The expansive classic vehicle exhibition encompassed eleven halls of the complex, malls and the central concourse arena. There were also further outdoor display and vendor areas in the access roads between the halls.

The second edition of the St James�s Motoring Spectacle was once again held on Saturday 01 November 2025 as a prelude to the London � Brighton Veteran Car Run on the Sunday. Pall Mall, the home of the Royal Automobile Club, who organised the event as part of London Motor Week, was once again the venue for the free to attend gathering.

The annual Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show was held at its traditional venue of Birmingham�s National Exhibition Centre between 07-09 November 2025. Over the course of the three days, the show attracted over 72,000 visitors to enjoy a nostalgic trip down memory lane. They certainly had plenty to see, with some 330 one-make or model car club displays running to over 3000 vehicles, including many long-lost marques, with others ranging from microcars, through basic modes of travel ...

The latest edition of the Classic Car Auction Yearbook for 2024 � 2025, sponsored by UBS, celebrated its 30th anniversary with a further enlarged opus. It was presented by its founder and author, Adolfo Orsi, on the opening evening of the Auto e Moto d�Epoca Show in Bologna on 23 October 2025. The book covers the auction period from 01 September 2024 to 31 August 2025, incorporating the results from all the major auctions in Monterey, California, during that month, they being the latest direction of the classic car market.

The fifteenth edition of the Milano AutoClassica show was held between 21-23 November 2025, once again occupying halls 12, 16 and 20 of the Fiera Milano Rho exhibition centre. Upon entering the show through the main entrance in Hall 12, visitors were greeted by a display of three Ferrari XX models, in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the programme. It doesn�t seem like 20 years since the Enzo based FXX first took to the track, whilst it is over 10 years since the LaFerrari based FXX-K made its debut!

Broad Arrow Auctions consigned two exciting private collections as early highlights for the company�s flagship Amelia Auction, set for March 6-7 at the Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island in Florida. Celebrating its fourth year as the official auction house of the renowned Amelia Concours in 2026, Broad Arrow�s Amelia Auction will once again present approximately 150 exceptional collector cars ...

RM Sotheby�s first-ever Abu Dhabi Collectors� Week sale broke all records on 5 December 2025, grossing a staggering $85,064,125, becoming the most successful collector car auction ever held in the Middle East. The auction, which was organised in close collaboration with Sotheby�s and the Abu Dhabi Investment Office and held at the St. Regis Saadiyat Island Resort ...

Oldtimer Galerie Toffen will hold their annual Gstaad Classic Car Auction on 29 December 2025. Featuring 49 exceptional collector vehicles with an estimated total value of 7.7 million Swiss Francs, this exclusive event promises an extraordinary celebration of automotive history in the heart of the Swiss mountains

RM Sotheby�s will open its 2026 auction season at the historic Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa on Friday, January 23, with $60 million worth of collector cars, presenting a standout trio of McLaren�s most innovative and performance-driven machines. Featuring a 2025 McLaren Solus GT, a 2021 McLaren Elva, and a 2022 McLaren 720S GT3X, the sale brings together three limited-production examples that affirm the strength and momentum of RM Sotheby�s Arizona auction as it opens the 2026 season.

The annual Bonhams Paris sale will return on 29 January 2026 during Rétromobile week in Paris and will be held at the historic Polo de Paris with a selection of cars ranging from venerable classics to modern supercars. Founded in 1892 by Viscount de la Rochefoucauld-Doudeauville and the Duke of Estrées, Polo de Paris is one of the most prestigious and historic polo clubs in the world.

Leading international collector car auction house Gooding Christie�s, has unveiled an important early-production Ferrari 250 GT SWB Berlinetta, chassis 2177GT, as the headlining lot of its upcoming Paris Auction, set to take place at Rétromobile in Paris as the official sale of the foremost European automotive event.