This 1991 Ferrari F40 was displayed at the 2000 Portland International Auto Show at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon. Enzo Ferrari was 89 years old when he unveiled the F40 in Maranello, Italy, on July 21, 1987. Hand-made in Italy with carbon-fiber body panels bonded to a space frame of steel tubing, the F40 has a curb weight of just 2,756 pounds. To keep the weight down, the F40 features a plastic windshield and manual plastic windows, a carbon fiber dashboard, analog gauges, and lacked interior door panels and door handles and features like a radio or power-assisted brakes, though it did have primitive air conditioning. Powered by a 2,936-cubic-centimeter, twin-turbocharged, intercooled V8 engine that produced 471 horsepower at 7,000 rpm and 426 foot-pounds of torque at 4,000 rpm with a 5-speed manual transmission, the F40 could accelerate from 0 to 60 miles per hour in 3.5 seconds, reach 125 miles per hour in 12.4 seconds, and eventually hit a top speed of 203.4 miles per hour. A total of 1,311 F40s were produced from 1987 to 1992. This car was priced at $299,000.
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