Ferrari is an Italian sports car manufacturing company that is based in Maranello, Italy. It was founded by Enzo Ferrari in the year 1929. He came from a well to do family who was one of the first families in Modena to own an automobile.. They owned a metal foundry that made railroad parts.

When World War I happened, Enzo Ferrari’s father and brother Dino were both drafted into the Italian army. They both died from influenza in 1916. Enzo was then forced to quit school and run the metal foundry. Around this time, the business collapsed despite the best efforts of Enzo. He had no choice but to become a metal worker at the Modena Fire Brigade which was a metal workshop. Here he earned enough money to support his widowed mother.

Later on Enzo himself was drafted into the Italian army where he worked at shoeing mules for mountain travel. After a few months he became very seriously ill and was released from the military altogether, at which point he moved to Turin to become a test driver in 1918. This was against his mothers orders and wishes.

In 1919 Enzo moved to Mila and began working at CMN as a race car driver and was in his first real race, the Parma-Barceto. That same year he was also in the Targa Florida race. He would go on to be hired by Alfa Romero as head of the racing department in 1938 and again in 1940. He quit Romeo when he discovered that it was planning to take control of his beloved Scuderia.

Around this time is when the first Ferrari plant was put into use. Auto Avio Costruzioni Ferrari was produced to make primarily machine tools and aircraft parts for RIV and Piaggio in preparation for Italy's part in World War II.

In 1943 the Ferrari factory moved to Maranello and has remained there ever since. It has been bombed during war and rebuilt. Ferrari, as a man, is known for his distaste of his own customers. He is quite famous, in fact, for taking offense to customers whom he believes are buying a Ferrari car for the prestige rather than because they are the worlds best racing cars.