Cauley Ferrari is proud to offer this stunning 1991 Ferrari Testarossa in the classic Rosso Corsa exterior over a Beige interior. Our factory-trained & certified Ferrari technicians recently completed a full engine out service and all the maintenance is up to date and it is eligible for Ferrari Classiche. The Testarossa is the car many of us had as a poster hanging on our walls growing up, giving us that dream of ownership. The aggressive and exotic styling paired with the amazing 5.0L Flat-12 cylinder "Boxer Style" engine, made the Testarossa one of the most iconic sports cars of all time. Wait no longer and make that dream of having this sitting in your garage come true! Give us a call at 248-538-9600 to set up an appointment for a closer look at this stunning Ferrari. It's a "No Excuses" type car and won't be here long.
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The Paris Motor Show in October 1984 saw the return of the glorious Testarossa as heir to the 512 BBi. Pininfarina's design broke somewhat with tradition and was striking and innovative. The side intakes were larger than on the previous model and this design element introduced the long side strakes that would become the Testarossa's most recognizable feature
The evolution of the 12-cylinder boxer engine saw it equipped with four valves per cylinder: the most powerful engine mounted on a production sports car at the time of its launch. The Testarossa was a model that took its name from the company's history, being derived from the successful 500 and 250 Testa Rossa series of sports racing cars from the late fifties.
The name Testa Rossa is Italian for Red Head, and refers to the color that the camshaft covers were painted on the sports racing models. Naturally, the modern Testarossa came equipped with similarly red painted camshaft covers. The Pininfarina-designed replacement for the Boxer series was visually radically different from its predecessor, although it still featured a mid-mounted flat twelve engine as the previous 512 BBi. Gone was the sharp-nosed wedge profile, to be replaced by a much softer rounded front end. The front wings flowed into one of the model's most distinctive styling features, the deeply straked door panels that grew in width towards their trailing edge, before blending into very wide rear wings. The reason for the widening rear end and the body color straked doors, was the twin side-mounted water radiators which received their cooling air via the door intakes. The matte black egg crate grill in the nose of the car provided a link with Ferrari tradition, bordered by combination driving side, turn indicator light assemblies, with paired headlights in retractable pods on the upper face of the nose. The repositioning of the radiators provided the benefit of additional luggage space in the nose, useable luggage space being something that had been a shortcoming of the Boxer series. Although the front track was only 12 mm greater than that of the 512 BBi, the rear track increased by a massive 105mm, making the car wedge shape in plan rather than profile. At the rear, the paired circular tail light arrangement that had been a styling feature for over a decade was gone. In their place was a full width horizontally slatted satin black hiding rectangular combination light units.
The engine was the first four valves per cylinder flat twelve-cylinder configuration unit fitted in a Ferrari road car but maintained the same cubic capacity of 4943cc of the 512 BBi. It had twin belt-driven overhead camshafts per bank, now driven directly off the crankshaft instead of via idler gears on earlier Boxer models. The dry sump engine was longitudinally mounted in unit with the five-speed transmission, in a very similar manner to that of the preceding Boxer series. It used Bosch KE-Jetronic fuel injection and produced 380bhp @ 5750rpm. The Testarossa remained in production with very few visual alterations for seven years until the end of 1991 with a total of 7177 being produced during its lifetime. In 1992, the Testarossa was replaced by the 512 TR.
Road and Track summed it up well. "The 12-cylinder engine likes to sing, the Italian leather is perfect. And Pininfarina's classic styling makes sure you rule the scenery, no matter where you drive. The enormously wide Ferrari is a true icon for all the right reasons".
