RM Sotheby’s shall be auctioning a superbly specified instance of Ferrari’s landmark supercar: a 2003 Ferrari Enzo.

Named in honor of the corporate’s’ founder, the Enzo is one in every of a restricted sequence of highway automobiles together with the 288GTO, F40 and F50. These automobiles characterize Ferrari’s persevering with need to provide probably the most unique and technologically superior highway automotive.

Branding race-derived know-how to highway automobiles just isn’t a brand new thought, particularly to Ferrari. Up till the late fifties, Ferrari’s highway and racing automobiles have been virtually the identical product. Since that point, security rules, manufacturing prices and practicality have distinctly spilt the automobiles we race, from the automobiles we drive day by day. The purpose of the Enzo was to bridge this hole.

As Luca de Montezemolo states, ‘To convey collectively our racing success and the basic position of races, I made a decision that this automotive, which represents the perfect our know-how is able to, must be devoted to the founding father of the corporate, who at all times thought racing ought to lay the muse for our highway automotive designs.’

Inbuilt Maranello and examined round Fiorano by each Michael Schumacher and Dario Benuzzi, the Enzo was constructed from a wealth of expertise inside Ferrari. Internally, the undertaking was know because the FX, which value Ferrari 20 million euros to develop.

The 6.0L V12 had a redline at 8,200 rpm, and made 651 hp at 7800 rpm and 657 Nm at 5500 rpm. This propelled the automotive to 100 mph (160 kph) in 6.6 seconds, and onwards to the 1/4 mile in round 11 seconds. The Enzo Ferrari utilized paddle shifters with shift lights mounted on the highest of the steering wheel indicating the optimum time to vary gears.

With an preliminary manufacturing run of 350 Enzos, 4 hundred have been in-built both pink, yellow or black, or a customized coloration if the shopper’s relationship with the agency was sturdy sufficient. The additional fifty automobiles introduced in $28.8 million USD (24.4 million euros) for Ferrari, with every automotive being bought at a $554 00 USD (487,700 EU) revenue. With these figures, Ferrari has confirmed they not solely can promote half million greenback automobiles, they will yield fairly a revenue margin from them too.

The Ferrari Enzo featured right here has been underneath the care of simply two homeowners since new and is painted in Nero over a Pelle Nera inside. The automotive was licensed by Ferrari Classiche and obtained the coveted “Pink E-book” in December 2009. The latest upkeep work achieved on this Enzo was on November 2022 that included a full service, clutch substitute, and set up of a brand new exhaust silencer that every one in all value €30,000.

Throughout a interval of nice achievement for Ferrari, the Enzo displays victories which embody 4 consecutive F1 championships. The Pininfarina styling and semi-automatic, six-speed transmission hint their roots to coronary heart of motor sport. Little question, Enzo Ferrari himself can be most happy with this restricted sequence named in his honor. Not like the Ferrari F50, the Enzo was made with compromises in the direction of driver consolation. Luckily, Ferrari have used enough lively programs permitting stage of consolation to be adjusted from the drivers seat. It’s these subtle electronics, centered round Ferrari’s greatest road-worthy engine that make the Enzo as particular as it’s.

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