Ferrari flat-12 engine

The Ferrari flat-12 engine family is a series of flat-12, double-overhead-camshaft petrol engines that Ferrari produced from 1964 to 1996. The first was the Mauro Forghieri designed Tipo 207, used in the 1964 Ferrari 1512 Formula One car and the first flat-12 of any kind to race. Racing flat-12s followed in Formula One and sports racing cars until 1980, among them the 212 E Montagna, the 312 B series, the 312 PB and the 312 T series, and the road-going versions began with the 365 GT4 BB and lasted until the F512 M ended production in 1996. Each pair of opposing connecting rods shares one crankpin, as in earlier Ferrari V12s, so Forghieri insisted it was a 180 degree V12 rather than a true boxer, although the press and Ferrari's own brochures often call it a boxer.