V12, 2963 cc Design: Vignale Giovanni Michelotti was certainly not intending to press all the right buttons for the popular taste when he created this silhouette for the automobile designer Vignale. Visitors to the Ferrari booth at the Paris Motor Show in 1953 had god reason to be shocked when they discovered the spectacular one-off model on show. The opulent chorme trim adorning the front end, the rear fins astern, and the interpolated elevated belt line with flat glass surfaces above and sculpted colour contrast below - each of the stylistic details defining this holistic work of art is a provocation in itsef. However if you look at the car through a prism of sobriety, you are simply presented with a consistent development of the Ferrari 340 Mexico Berlinetta, which Vignale had bodied in 1952. The black and red coupe shown in the video was sold to an owner in USA in 1953 and this has been the coupé's home ever since. in truth has formed the starting signal for Ferrari's iconic 250 Series. Ferrari prduceda a total of 21 units of the 250 Europa powered by the 200hp Lampredi V12 engine. 16 of these automobiles were given by the coupé apparel by the Battista “Pinin“ Farina.
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