If there was any confusion over the iconic Ferrari F40's top priority, just take one look at those carbon fiber racing seats and that will all be cleared up for you. This vintage supercar had pure fire coursing through its eight-cylinder veins, and the flames are still burning. It was a pure, unadulterated street racer that didn't even make a space for a trip computer.
Ferrari fanatics will be forever in love with the street-legal speed demon, and we'll forever be utterly heartsick over its extinction back in 1992. This was one feisty animal that not many could wrangle -- less than 2,000 were produced, and a 1991 Car and Driver issue clocked the insurance cost at about $15,000 every six months. So there's that.
Strap into this drag-racing time machine and hold on for dear life. MotorWeek is taking viewers back to the late '80s in a European-style F40 that has us pining for the days of driving gloves:
While the F40 is long gone, there are still plenty of pure-bred Ferrari speed demons in the showroom here at Boardwalk Ferrari in Plano, TX. Stop by the showroom to test drive any of the feisty new models just snarling in anticipation for the open road.