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The most famous ITALIAN car manufacturer in the world is Ferrari SPA. IT Was founded by Enzo Ferrari and its symbol is the "Cavallino Rampant" – the rampant horse. 
The company was BORN officially on 1 September 1939 in Modena with the foundation from Enzo Ferrari’s Auto Avio Costruzioni.
His first duty was constructing parts of airplanes but from 1947 he began to make cars. The first car was built in only two copies, the Auto Avio Costruzioni 815, in 1940. It was a spyder car designed entirely by Enzo Ferrari. It couldn’t be marketed under the brand name because of a contractual clause with Alfa Romeo.

These two spyder cars were built with Fiat parts, both the chassis and the engine (an 8-cylinder in-line 1496 cc, derived from Fiat 508c 1100) were made in Turin.
The first car to bear the name Ferrari, however, was the Ferrari 125 S. It was a boat with wheels, whose mechanics were obtained the following year. The application of the name Ferrari in union with the trade name happened again in 1943, in connection with the transfer of assets to the new factory in Maranello. 

The name Auto Avio Costruzioni remained active until 1947, then in 1960 there was the shift to joint stock companies and the new name of SEFA – it stood in English for Company Operations and Production Car Racing.
In 1975, Ferrari SpA joined the Fiat group. In 1988, with the death of Enzo Ferrari, the shares switched to FIAT, 90 per cent in total, and the remainder went to Enzo’s son Piero Ferrari Lardi who remains in the team today as corporate vice president.

In 2006 a five per cent stake was acquired by a company from the United Arab Emirates, a company that is promoting the construction of the first theme park Prancing Horse in the same country.