1946
As Enzo Ferrari assembles the engineering team for a car that will carry his own name, Gioachino Colombo’s compact 1.5-litre V12 concept develops into the power unit for the forthcoming 125 project.
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Colombo had begun sketching the engine during the summer of 1945. By 1946 the project had become a compact 60-degree V12 with an oversquare bore-and-stroke relationship and a single overhead camshaft for each cylinder bank, with Giuseppe Busso and other engineers contributing as development continued. The first Ferrari-badged automobile belongs to the next chapter: this moment records the engineering foundation immediately before the 125 S appeared in 1947.
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