So, who is Karim Said?
Author, engineer, scientist, business consultant, globetrotter, dedicated family man and serial supercar collector… all these attributes and more were written for one man: Karim Said. His passion for Ferrari started some 40 years ago when he bought a 308 GT4. Believe it not, he was still at university at the time, but this was the start of a passionate love affair with the Prancing Horse exotica. The first car in the Ferrari Bloodline Collection arrived in 2002 when Karim bought the F40. He loved it so much he kept it for 19 years and used it to tour across Europe, often spending weeks at a time behind the wheel. He kept the Enzo for nine years and the 288 GTO for eight years. None of the Bloodline Collection’s four F50s, the first purchased 13 years ago and the second purchased 10 years ago, ever left the collection. The Ferrari Bloodline book is as much a reflection of Karim’s passion for Ferrari as it is his sheer joy for life and obsession with detail that has turned every single car of the collection into a work of art.