Ever wonder what it’s like inside a Ferrari factory? Laurance Yap of Canadian Driver got a chance to tour the automaker’s facility in Italy. “Ferrari’s production process is, indeed, a curious combination of old-world craftsmanship and cutting-edge technology,” wrote Yap. But while it might sometimes have an “old-fashioned family,” the role of advanced technology is equally apparent. “The paint shop is so automated it’s almost eerie: body shells work their way around inside it, first through a 360-degree anti-corrosion dip, then through various primer and paint processes before being baked. From the outside, there are no people visible anywhere in the shop as the candy-coloured bodies work their way through, and the robots move around them.” Of course, there’s lots of pride in building Ferraris. “When the working day draws to a close, the floors of the old factory are a teeming mass of red-suited people, loud and boisterous and all of them in seemingly no rush to leave.”


05/08, 11:39 AM
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Zerome
This is like getting a golden ticket and being invited to Charlies Chocolate Factory.
Even I wouldn’t want to leave after a long day of building Ferrari’s.
05/08, 1:45 PM
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05/09, 8:36 AM
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SR
That’d be sweet to work there. I took a tour of the Vette factory in Bowling Green, KY a few years ago. That was pretty cool (aside from the fat, lazy UAW workers) to see Vettes come together.
BTW, you’re not allowed to take any pictures inside the Vette factory. Why? Not to protect design or production secrets, but because it’s in the goddamn UAW contract that they don’t want their pictures taken… What a bunch of douches. I would have loved to have some shots of the cars in various forms of completion, but I couldn’t because God forbid I get a fatass UAW worker making $50/hr to test a horn in the shot.