Enzo's Ferrari

The Ferrari Enzo. Let that name sink in. The car that was named after the founder of Ferrari himself, Enzo Anselmo Ferrari. They wouldn’t give that title to just any run of the mill car and they certainly didn’t. A V12, carbon fiber body, and a 218 mph top speed makes for a pretty decent car.

I saw this absolute beauty at Joe Macari while I was visiting London. Considering that they have a Ferrari Enzo in their inventory you can probably tell that this is a rather high end dealership. In the past they have had the Ferrari F40, the Lamborghini Miura, the Pagani Huayra, the Bugatti Veyron, the Alfa Romeo 8C, and a few nice scooters in their showroom to only name about 2%.

Let’s start with the timeless design of the Enzo. When you look at this beast from head on you instantly see the iconic triangle shaped hood which made the Enzo stand so far apart from the other top class supercars at the same production period of the early 2000’s. On both sides of the hood there are some triangular shaped air vents and then the headlights sticking to that same triangular theme. The doors on the Enzo are also pretty special. Like that of a McLaren F1 with butterfly doors. When the Enzo has them up it looks extremely imposing. Enzo’s Ferrari has a solid build and posture. When you look at it nothing really looks out of place in that old yet semi-new kind of way. It looks powerful. Ferrari weren’t messing around when they came up with this creation. Onto the side profile. I couldn’t really get a decent picture of the side from a distance because it was lined up next to a Koenigsegg as you could probably see in the photos above and a Lotus on the other side. I also couldn’t manage to get a good shot of the rear because of a wall…

The picture I included was the best one I could get.

Anyway, the windscreen isn’t that gentle of a slope up to the roof. Just under the windscreen are these vents that drop in just before the doors and go back out again a little bit after the doors end making the Enzo look a lot wider at the front and at the back. After the doors, the roof slopes back down but in a more gentle fashion than the front windscreen. Somewhere between the roof and the rear it transitions from the carbon fiber body to some glass giving you a magnificent view of that italian V12. After the slope of the rear finishes it blends into a relatively flat back of the car. I would say that nearly ⅓ of the Enzo is almost completely flat. This certainly doesn’t make the back of this Ferrari look bad because I think the design is outstanding, but, actually I really don’t have any criticism. When you look at the Ferrari Enzo in photos you really don’t get a feel for how low the vehicle is. The total height of supercar is only 45.2 inches. That’s shorter than a Bugatti Veyron.

Now, the interior. I think the black on black color choice for this car looks fairly nice. It’s not going to be overly complicated considering that Ferrari probably weren’t completely going for luxury. They would most likely be focusing on horsepower and top speed. Don’t get me wrong, it is a nice interior in the sense that it’s not over the top. This allows the driver to experience the main thing about this car, performance. The simplicity means that it doesn’t take away from the driving experience. They don’t have to worry about how to change the radio station or things like that. There isn’t even a radio in the car. One, it saves weight and two, you already have a 650 horsepower radio making some of the best sounds around. The Enzo doesn’t even have powered windows, to get them down you manually have to wind them down. This saves additional weight. The top red button is the start button, that’s really the main button except for the ones on the steering wheel. In the middle, other than then button to start the engine there’s just air conditioning and heating. There is A LOT of exposed carbon fiber in the interior. There’s even some on the steering wheel. The steering wheel is probably one of the highlights of the interior of the Enzo. You control most of the things from it. On it you will find a selection of buttons including a mode button, a race button to adjust the car's performance to be better suited for racing, and a button to change gear into reverse. There is even a button to raise the front end of the Enzo to get over speed bumps and things. This isn’t that bad of an interior.

With this much of a high profile car it needs a very high profile engine and it absolutely has that. The Ferrari Enzo has a naturally aspirated 6 Liter V12 blasting out a whopping 651 horsepower. This began a new generation of engines for Ferrari. Hopefully you can see it in this picture through all of the glare. It can get up to nearly 220 mph and can go from 0-60 in 3.1 seconds. The Enzo’s fitted with a anti-roll cage in the front and the back to stop the completely carbon fiber body from getting out of control. On average the fuel consumption is a rather rubbish 8 miles per gallon. This Ferrari was a pretty high tech car when it first came out. It used quite a bit of Formula 1 technology such as carbon fiber reinforced ceramic disk brakes. Also used was some technology that’s not allowed in Formula 1 including traction control and active aerodynamics.

If any of you are interested in buying this exact 2004 Ferrari Enzo you can get it for a low price of £1,675,950 or $2,234,862. I guess what you have to remember is for that price you are purchasing a 1 of 400 car and also a little piece of Ferrari history.