Hello Ferrari and Speed Champions fans,

the Ferrari F40 (tipo F120) is a mid-engine, rear-wheel drive sports car engineered by Nicola Materazzi with styling by Pininfarina. It was built from 1987 to 1992, with the LM and GTE race car versions continuing production until 1994 and 1996 respectively. As the successor to the 288 GTO (also engineered by Materazzi), it was designed to celebrate Ferrari’s 40th anniversary and was the last Ferrari automobile personally approved by Enzo Ferrari. At the time it was Ferrari’s fastest, most powerful, and most expensive car for sale.

It is a studless build in the new, 8 studs wide Speed Champions style. I wanted to create a sleek model which is as accurate as possible in this small scale. I prefer the brick built solutions to keep the flexibility of the used parts in further builds, and therefore only Ferrari logo stickers are used. (If you preferred a better shaping instead of a real rear side grill, then 2pcs of parts 61409 could replaced by 2pcs of tiles and some additional stickers, see the picture 3.)

My intent was to keep the width-length-height ratio of the real car and this size makes it possible. The model contains lots of details: for example the emblematic front, hood , side and rear intakes, the narrow black line on the front and sides, the front turn signals, the side view mirrors etc… Maybe the most challenging one was the iconic rear side with the vehicle registration plate and the rear spoiler, here there is a half stud offset. I tried to fill every unnecessary gaps and therefore some tricky build techniques are used.

In the pdf instructions and in the downloadable files “F40_v13R-HiddenPartsBlue.xml” and “F40_v13R-HiddenPartsBlue.csv” some hidden parts are blue and light bluish gray, they may be replaced by any colors, because they are not or not so visible (for example: they are visible only in side view between the wheel and mudguard). However, for the best result I suggest to use black or red parts in the most cases. In the inventory on this page and in the downloadable files “F40_v13R-HiddenPartsBlack.xml” and “F40_v13R-HiddenPartsBlack.csv” all of these hidden parts are black.

The model has space for one minifigure. I suggest to use a helmet, or small or middle sized hair. The instructions and parts list files do not contain the minifigure shown on the pictures.

I hope you enjoy the build and the car. Many thanks for your support!

_TLG_ (Laszlo Torma), Feb, 2022

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Purchasing instructions for this model you will get the following files:

•     High-resolution, professionally designed PDF Instructions file with a detailed parts list (showing quantity, color, Item No. and images of the parts)
•     Parts list in XML for Bricklink in two versions: 1) with blue and light bluish gray parts (see above), 2) all blue and light bluish gray parts converted to black parts
•     Detailed parts list in CSV (showing details without images) in two versions similarly to XML version
•     Sticker designs in png format

NOTE: Instructions and parts list do not contain any minifigures.

There are 104 parts in the inventory with 342 total quantity. The approximate cost of these parts is 40,6€ (45,3$).