RE: Ferrari Enzo prototype: You Know You Want To

[Gorbyrev]

First time in my life a Ferrari has been a candidate for a Q car. Even well informed petrolheads would be thrown by this one. Worth it for the slightly out of proportion strangeness of it all. Major respect for the auto electrician who renewed the loom on that monster.

[deadmau5]

Looks like something you'd make on Forza, drive for a few laps then leave to rot in your garage for eternity.

[Wadeski]

That looks better than pretty much any modern Ferrari.

[HereBeMonsters]

Build quality lower than a production Ferrari?

Blimey.

[canucklehead]

i'd have it in a flash, were i and my bank manager on the right terms to make it happen.

people saying it's not an enzo miss the point. this is unique, literally. a one-off. and a piece of Ferrari internal history. it has a history, written in the worn interior, the bodged bodywork, and that glorious one-off engine.

want. very. badly.

[Clivey]

ST150HB said:

Such a bad ass Ferrari, oh how I need to be a millionnaire!

Let's hope it gets driven, and driven hard!

Oh yeah!

[Matt UK]

Chris Stott said:

Better looking than an Enzo.

[redwedge]

I seem to remember that, the first time this thing went under the hammer in the early 2000s, it sold for $150,000. I remember thinking it was bloody cheap, anyway. Can't wait to find out what it's worth now...

[Babw]

redwedge said:

I seem to remember that, the first time this thing went under the hammer in the early 2000s, it sold for $150,000. I remember thinking it was bloody cheap, anyway. Can't wait to find out what it's worth now...

This is what I remember, it was sold again after $150,000 sale for not much more.

Terrific looking thing.

[F1GTRUeno]

ST150HB said:

Such a bad ass Ferrari, oh how I need to be a millionnaire!

Let's hope it gets driven, and driven hard!

Guarantee that the last thing that will happen to it is that it'll get driven hard.

If it ever moves under it's own power again it'll be a huge surprise.

[mikEsprit]

Chris Stott said:

Better looking than an Enzo.

Despite it being ugly, malproportioned, and odd-looking, I agree.

[kambites]

Matt UK said:

Chris Stott said:

Better looking than an Enzo.

I believe the term is "damning with faint praise".

[gregf40]

I nearly bought this when it first came for sale and decided against it.

Wish I had now - it's a piece of history.

[Schnellmann]

kambites said:

Matt UK said:

Chris Stott said:

Better looking than an Enzo.

I believe the term is "damning with faint praise".

Not sure which I think is worse looking...

[redwedge]

F1GTRUeno said:

If it ever moves under it's own power again it'll be a huge surprise.

Surely, with a production run of 1, mileage won't affect resale?!

[redwedge]

gregf40 said:

I nearly bought this when it first came for sale and decided against it.

Wish I had now - it's a piece of history.

Snap. Wasn't it also developed by a certain M. Schumacher? A chap who, sadly, seems unlikely to drive again. History indeed.

[BlimeyCharlie]

canucklehead said:

i'd have it in a flash, were i and my bank manager on the right terms to make it happen.

people saying it's not an enzo miss the point. this is unique, literally. a one-off. and a piece of Ferrari internal history. it has a history, written in the worn interior, the bodged bodywork, and that glorious one-off engine.

want. very. badly.

Do people actually have a bank manager still?
And the age-old 'the market will determine the value' will apply here. People with money to invest in a car won't be buying this.

[jason61c]

Krikkit said:

I would think that'd be to help calibrate the traction control - film a hard launch on a high speed camera and you can see exactly how quickly the wheels are rotating etc.

shame a high speed camera wasn't about back then to do it!

[Krikkit]

jason61c said:

Krikkit said:

I would think that'd be to help calibrate the traction control - film a hard launch on a high speed camera and you can see exactly how quickly the wheels are rotating etc.

shame a high speed camera wasn't about back then to do it!

High speed cameras have been around for a long, long time - both film and digital. The latter have made it very easy, but there were plenty around in the year 2000!

[Rumblestripe]

You see, my mule don't like people laughin'. Gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it...

Love it!