Ferrari Berlinetta Boxer BB 512i

A Ferrari Berlinetta Boxer is part of a series of cars produced by Ferrari in Italy between 1973 and 1984. They used a flat-mounted mid-12 (180 ° V12, not made with a crankshaft Boxer) engine, replacing the layout EN Daytona, and passed the Ferrari Testarossa by.

Production of BB was a major milestone for the Enzo Ferrari. He said a car motor halfway would be too difficult for his buyers to handle, and it took many years for its engineers to convince him to adopt the layout. This attitude began to change as the brand has lost its dominance in the races of the late 1950s to mid-engined competitors. The mid-engined 4 -, 6 - and 8-cylinder race cars was the result Dino and Ferrari later allowed for the production car road Dino to use the provision as well. The company also moved its V12 engines to the rear with its P and LM racing cars, but the Daytona was launched with its engine in front. It was not until 1971 that the Mid-engine 12-cylinder road car appears.

The first "Boxer" is the 365 GT4 BB presented the show in Turin 1971. Designed to meet the rival Lamborghini Miura, he was finally released for sale in 1973 at the Motor Show in Paris. Only 387 were built, of which only 58 right hand drive, making it the rarest of all boxers Berlinetta. The Pininfarina-designed body has a sharp corner with pop-up headlights.

Although it shares its numerical designation with the Daytona, the Boxer is radically different. It was a mid-engine car like Dino, and hard-12 engine was mounted longitudinally rather than transversely.

The engine shared its interior dimensions with the V12 of the Daytona, but was extended to 180 ° as in the 1970 Ferrari Formula One car and was mounted over a box five speed manual. A major difference in this engine was the use of timing belts instead of chains.

The measures are notoriously variable, imprecise, and definitionally vague, even from Ferrari emitted by sources in the same period. For example, documents of the workshop manual speed (usually speed redline) while documents manual "feasible" Speed appears to be the maximum speed HP unit not exceeding Redline, because 512 and 512i, it is probably not the maximum speed. In addition, the shop manual does not always distinguish between measures of the carburetor (512) and injected (512i) motor, except with respect to the distribution system of fuel, although it is known that differences exist.

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