Production numbers: F40

Dear Comrade Birel,

Thank you for your kind remarks.

Their names are Tammy-girl and Teddy-boy and are truly the nicest of companions.

With kind regards,

Road Burner

 

And here is my "JAZZ"
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Anyone?

 

Well, I have a book here on the F40, which tells me 1331 were produced. Also, my favourite Ferrari info website also claims 1331 cars. But I dont know now........

 

Okay man thanks....

I guess with the Sultan cars and so on saying about 1350 is good!

 

Dear Comrade Birel,

Jazz is a wonderfully handsome creature indeed - most noble. I would estimate that he is likely to be circa two years old?

With kind regards,

512 Tea Are

 

Do we have the exact figures today of F40's built?

F40
with Split euro spec / us spec
F40 CSAI-GT
F40 LM
F40 Competizione
F40 GTE
F40 Evo's
F40 FOF (Factory Friend's Ferrari's)

????

Anyone !

Thanks !

 

What do you mean by FoF version? Do you have an exemple of one of these cars?

 

That's correct!

 

No i don't, and there probably won't any, just asking Fchat if there were any.

 

F40s 1311 units
F40 LMs 20 units (19 units + maybe 1 completed later)
Total 1331 units

The GTEs, GTs, or upgrated F40s were just F40 chassis.

 

F40 CSAI-GT or competizione, officially 7 cars converted. Example, during the 1992/94 Italian GT championships many customers were decide to convert before their F40s in CSAI-GT spec for racing (one car was also a prototype sold to a italian customer). F40 LMs, 19 or probably 20 cars (just very few info of the 20th car). F40 GTE, officially 6 cars converted. Many CSAI-GT F40s were replaced to GTE spec later for BPR championship. A F40LM was replaced in GTE spec for BPR championship.

PS. many other F40s were replaced with CSAI-GT (I owned one) or GTE spec but never considered as official cars!

PS2. In the LM spec just 2 cars were produced with special lighter body and powerful engine.

 

I remember of reading a brochure back in 1987 where they mentioned a special upgrade to 680 HP at customer's request. This brochure was for the regular F40. Do you think they were talking about the LM version and not a street legal upgrade? And what do you mean by lighter body and more powerful engine?

 

I always considered the official upgrade 680 HP engine option and the "straight teeths" gearbox option as just advertising but really never used as street car option. Michellotto and his team was the realty used to upgrade F40s officially from the factory, but they never stopped with just option unit as solely 680 hp engines and straight teeths gearboxes. He worked extensively every part of the F40 for racing. They upgrade many specs for engine (N-GT, GT2, GT1, GTE, LM, IMSA, 3.5l, 3.6l and so on), brakes (various dimensions and materials), gearboxes (upgrading the stock gear units till using reinforced race units or Xtrac sequential 6 gears spec), chassis (reinforcing structures in relation to the specification), sunspensions and alignments (developing new structures, angles, dimentions and soluctions), aero (starting from very low effecting soluctions upgrade as flaps passing to high downforce LM aero specs concluding to the last very high downforce GTE aero specification), and so on...So talking of 680 hp engine and stright teeth gearbox was always considered reductive to me and as I know never used as option available by worldwide official dealers.

Concerning the two F40 LM units, I remember talking with a F40LM and 333SP owner, that just two LMs were produced with a total weight of 998 kgs instead of usual 1040/1050 kgs and over 850 HP engines (880 hp on top). Never known where was worked that reduction of weight.

 

I was told a number of 1,404 units, including the 213 USA cars and prototypes. Unfortunately I don't have a record who to credit with this update number.

 

When I was trying to confirm US-spec production numbers by model year earlier this week, I came across an article published a few months ago that cited a book by Keith Bluemel from last year. I don't have the book myself but the article quotes some production figures from it. I am curious to run these figures by the tenants of this board, so I am exhuming this old thread - from a quick search this seemed the best candidate.

https://en.escuderia.com/produccion-ferrari-f40/
https://porterpress.co.uk/collections/ferrari-books/products/ferrari-f40

Some of the language in this article is a little awkward and I believe there is a Spanish-to-English auto-translation going on. Nevertheless, my takeaway is:

Prototypes - 7
Production - 1,311
LM - 19
GT by 'Nicodemi' - 3
GT by Michelotto - 6, converted and coming out of the 1,311 road cars
GTE by Michelotto - 6
TOTAL - 1,346, with some rope allowed for more undiscovered prototypes

I have several comments and questions about these figures. I'll skip over the 1,311 vs. 1,315 discrepancy as these two figures are already known to be used interchangeably amongst all sorts of reputable F40 sellers.

• I have never heard of 'Nicodemi' F40 GT's. A search on the internet reveals no real results except this article itself.
• My understanding is that the Michelotto GT's were converted from a combination of production road cars *and* prototypes, e.g. #74047, not just from the 1,311 production road cars.
• This article treats the GTE's as new builds. Were these not, like the GT's, conversions? In fact I thought some GTE's were conversions of GT's, or 'double conversions', but regardless all ultimately from the 1,311 + 7 pile and not new builds.

Leaving out the 'Nicodemi' cars, and counting the GTE's as conversions, results in a figure of 1,337 between all variants. I know nothing about escuderia.com and their knowledge of F40's, but they claim to be citing Keith Bluemel. Does anybody on this board have this book - are they citing him correctly? And do these 'Nicodemi' cars actually exist?