By the early 1960s, Ford was slowly losing ground to its competitors. The new generation favored speed and style over the safety and comfort associated with Fords. While the grandson of the automobile empire's founder, Henry Ford II, was pondering how to impress the world, on the other side of the Atlantic, Italian designer and racing driver Enzo Ferrari was creating completely different cars. Ferrari's cars epitomized elegance and won European races one after another, but Enzo's creations were responsible for more deaths than any other racing driver on the track. American journalist A.J. Bame's book 'Ford v. Ferrari,' about the struggle between these two titans, served as the basis for the Hollywood blockbuster of the same name. It details the fierce rivalry between the American and European auto industries: individual masterpieces versus the assembly line, elegance versus power, the brilliant engineers of the Italian concern versus the brilliant pair of Ford engineer Shelby and driver Ken Miles.