If you’re a brand new Ferrari F40 owner, you’ll want a nice resource to reference when getting up to speed with your car. Not only can you use this video from DK Engineering to learn where your windshield washer bottle filler is, how to open the gas cap, or how to unlock and open your car’s clamshells, but you’ll learn nice interesting anecdotes about the F40 in general. Did you know, for example, that Pininfarina built seven right-hand-drive examples of the car for a single collection?
With this simple 40-minute guide from the preeminent source of F40 knowledge, the walls of F40 ownership are torn down. When you watch this video, you’ll know everything you need in order to drive and operate one of these cars. Of course the video won’t explain how to get the $3 million, give or take, that you’ll need to purchase one of your own. You’ll have to figure that one out on your own. But that shouldn’t be a problem, right?
Ferrari built these cars in a very inexpensive and lightweight kind of way, so don’t go into F40 ownership thinking this will be a modern and luxurious driving experience. The paint is thin enough that you’ll probably see the carbon weave underneath. The interior is basically carbon kevlar wrapped around a steel superstructure, meaning it’s going to be a rattly and harsh ride. These are basically race cars, it does well to remember.
There are so many little processes for working with the F40 on a regular basis. Did you know, for example, that there is a very specific way to close the doors from the inside? There’s no interior door handle, after all.
This is a super interesting car and the way that you have to operate it isn’t always intuitive. It’s very Italian in that way. Leave it to the very posh Brits to boil it down for you in a way that makes a lot of sense.
