The design change will feature two historic shades of blue in substitution to their traditional Rosso Corsa – Azzurro La Plata and Azzurro Dino – as part of the Ferrari's 70th anniversary ...

It wasn't just Ferrari, either. The FIA gave Bugatti blue and Mercedes-Benz silver ... where that fiery red earned the name "Rosso Corsa" (which means "racing red" in Italian).

For example, German cars were silver-grey, those from France were blue ... and Ferrari has since introduced dozens of shades of red, including Scuderia (lighter than Corsa), Roma, Bordeaux ...

In 1948, a young Enzo Ferrari introduced his first race car intended for the road and available to customers, the pint-sized 166 Spyder Corsa. It came with a new Tipo 166 2.0-liter Colombo V-12 ...