Ferrari 410 Superamerica Pininfarina

Vehicle Overview

The Ferrari 410 Superamerica is a sports car built in three series from 1955 to 1959 by the Italian car manufacturer Ferrari. The designation 410 is based on the rounded content of a single cylinder. From 1951, Ferrari added larger models to its range in addition to the models with the smaller V12 developed by Gioacchino Colombo, which were powered by variants of the larger V12 engine developed by engineer Aurelio Lampredi based on the Colombo V12 mainly for racing. The main structural difference between the two V12 engine families was, in addition to other changes, the cylinder spacing that was increased from 90 to 108 mm in the Lampredi V12, which allowed larger bore dimensions. In this model series, the 410 Superamerica presented at the Paris Salon in October 1955 replaced the earlier 375 America. The style studies of the Ferrari Superfast series drawn and built by Pinin Farina were also based on the 410 Superamerica. The successor to the 410 Superamerica was the Ferrari 400 Superamerica. Of the 410 Superamerica, whose wheelbase was initially 2800 mm, later 2600 mm, like its predecessor, 17 units were produced in a first series in 1955/56, 14 of them with a PininFarina body, a Coupé and a Cabriolet from Boano and a Coupé from Ghia.