This ATS 2500 GT was a true Ferrari killer
Posted on 26-03-2015 at 21:40 by Dizono – 9 Comments”
No, Lamborghini is not the only brand that is a result of an argument with Enzo Ferrari, shortly before, arose in a similar way also ATS.
I had already stated at the end of the article about the ATS 1000 –Enzo Ferrari’s take on an affordable sports car, that the story of Giotto Bizzarrini not come to an end with the passing of ASA. At Ferrari, because that is the brilliant engineer in 1961, after a fierce argument with Enzo “Il Commendatore” Ferrari. Together with two colleagues that Enzo’s blood at that time, also be able to drink, they act in service to the wealthy Count Gionvanni Volpi. This is a successful racing team Scuderia Serenissima at that time a good customer of Ferrari. Still want the young Giovanni, who has a fortune inherited from his father, more: Enzo beat.
Ex-ingeniers Carlo Chiti and Bizzarrini working in a Formula 1 car, but that project fails, unfortunately, miserably. But a Ferrari on the street beat, they should have thought of it, because in 1963 on the stock exchange of Geneva, the ATS (Automobili Turismo Sport SpA) 2500 GT to shine. Under the Allemano-built aluminum carriage, is a carrier loaded V8 with an engine capacity of 2468 cc. Capabilities range from 210 hp to 245 hp for the GTS.
Far ahead of its time
While Enzo Ferrari was only in 1961 reluctantly would admit that a behind-the-controlled-placed mid-engine, the ideal configuration is for an F1 car (under the motto “horses span you do not get behind the car”), would be the first street-legal car Ferrari until 1973 to be waited for: the 365 GT4 BB (Berlinetta Boxer). Ok, the Dino 206 was already there in 1966, and also of the Ferrari 250 LM (which, because of its 3.3-liter engine actually 275 LM would have had to be called) was a street version, though only a handful of copies were built.
Not only to see a magnificent car, this ATS 2500 GT, also subcutaneous, it was a gem. The Formula 1 debacle had ATS, however, a bad name and the customers remained massively way. Finally, only 12 copies were built, one of which, incidentally, the most telling number plate “ENZO WHO”. Enzo Ferrari himself, incidentally, was not amused about the escapades of Giovanni Volpi and refused him the two 250 GTO’s to sell that Volpi had ordered. Volpi bought a 250 GT SWB and put Bizzarrini in the work to build something a little better than the GTO’s. And that was the Breadvan, reason enough to be there in 2008 already be a nice piece to publish.
Incidentally, ATS some years ago breathed new life into, among others, with the very on a kitcar like 300 Leggera. Meh.
Gallery: ATS 2500 GT
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Gallery: ATS 2500 GTS
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