Car Fact #118 — October 12, 2026

The Ferrari 250 GTO’s body panels were hand-formed over wooden bucks with such tight tolerances that the finished car’s aerodynamic drag varied measurably depending on which craftsman had shaped each panel, meaning identical models could have slightly different top speeds purely due to manufacturing variation in body smoothness—a problem so unpredictable that Ferrari eventually abandoned precise aerodynamic predictions for GTO variants and instead simply tested each finished car on the track to determine its actual performance envelope.