This 1999 example of a Ferrari 550 Maranello sold for $217,280 at the RM Sotheby’s Monterey auction in 2023. William Walker, courtesy of RM Sotheby’s The 550 Maranello was a Pininfarina design ...

What Ratel and his investors really wanted, though, was a Ferrari towards the front of the grid, and the firm’s flagship of the time, the 550 Maranello, fitted the big GT car template perfectly.

It’s hard to imagine a more evocative machine than a bright red 275 GTB with white roundels ... in the late-’90s Ferrari went back to its front-engined roots. And how. The 550 Maranello ...