A James Bond Car For Sure
At 217 miles per hour the Ferrari Enzo boasts being in the top ten of the world’s fastest cars and with a name like Ferrari we are automatically suitable impressed. There is nothing better than seeing a bright red Ferrari driving by and it certainly gets heads turning and people talking.
At 0-60 in 3.2 seconds it can feel pretty fast but with a car like this you may want to take your time and enjoying the admiring glances and with only 399 of these cars throughout the world the price quite rightly shoots up every time someone happens to crash one, a typical price of one of these elite cars in auction can be above an impressive $1,000,000.
Being driven by a F140 V12 engine with 660 horsepower it can hold its head up high as being one of the most powerful naturally aspirated production cars in the entire world. It can also hold claim to being famous by the fact that it was used in the film Charlie’s Angels Full Throttle whereby it was driven by the actress Demi Moore on a beach.
They also auctioned one off by Sotheby’s Maranello Auction to help benefit survivors of the famous 2004 Tsunami where it achieved almost double its list price and brought the sum of €950,000 which was then presented to Pope Benedict XV1.
With 12 miles to the gallon in the city and 18 miles per gallon on the open highway, you may want to stick to the highway when driving this beast. The shape is typical Ferrari and will gain gasps of delight where ever you drive and although the Ferraris are famous for looking their best in red they are also delightful in other colours with black being particularly fetching.
It feels good when holding the road and has a 4 wheel independent suspension with push-rod actuated shock absorbers together with anti-roll bars at the front as well as the rear. The Enzo Ferrari have designed the car in a way that because of the phenomenal speeds that are achieved by this car, the designers had to pay special attention to achieving greater road traction by using an onboard computer that monitors and maintains the necessary down force using the rear wings to achieve this by automatically altering the angle of the rear wings of the car to ensure enough down force is generated otherwise the car would want to lift off the ground like an airplane. To anybody witnessing this happen it surely would make them think that this was one of the cars that was used in a James Bond film with all its fancy gadgets and modifications and would be suitably impressed.
This two door coup was named after the Company’s founder, Enzo Ferrari and built in 2002 using the technology that was used to design formula one cars with the body made from carbon fiber. It also included in the design special types of disc brakes made from a special type of ceramic.