Test Drive Ferrari Enzo 2002 - 2003 coupe

ENZO Day

In Maranello, so simply do not go. Either for the supercar, or for a dream ... Jamirokuiai (the audience spectators of the MTV channel know well) managed to get and other immediately. Supercar-dream name is Enzo Ferrari.
 
This car, created in the fame of the founder Father the legendary stable Enzo Ferrari, is essentially a 100% racing challenge of Formula 1, caught in civilian clothes. Madly beautiful, unimaginably fast and fabulously dear enzo - the crown of the creation of Ferrari engineers and PinInfarina designers. The dream of millionaires and simple boys, it is equally unavailable for those and others: the car will be released in the amount of 399 pieces, and all of them have long been painted between buyers.
 
Jamirokuiai (he also Jason Kay) laid his eyes on Enzo Ferrari long before the appearance of official information about this model. For the first time, the Englishman saw computer drawings made on the spy photographs of the supercar (who had not yet had their own name), about one and a half years ago, and immediately decided by anything to replenish this car to his collection. Ferrari's familiar sellers helped - they sent a request to Italy, and Jason turned out to be among the first challengers to possess a new stallion.
 
Last fall Jamirocai finally saw his dream in the flesh - it happened at the annual British motor show. The exhibition supercar was black as a raven, which for Ferrari is quite rare: yellow and red colors are more common. After a meeting, Jason realized that his enzo should be unlikely to black.
 
Six months later, Kay received an invitation to Maranello. There, at the Ferrari plant, and a grand show took place on the transfer of his new passion worth the cost of P645 thousand.
 
The gate of the hangar slowly opened, presenting a predatory beak of a supercar, reminiscent of the Empire Fighter from Star Wars. The team of mechanics manually rolls out the car and removes. For the first time, seeing Enzo Ferrari not on the exhibition podium, but on the usual asphalt, "tells Kay," I feel confusion: what is happening little is like a reality, even though I understand that this is not a dream.
 
Huge alloy wheels in the shape of a five-pointed star, drowning in the super-refrigerated bridgestone tires, hold a wide squat body of the car in several tens of millimeters from the ground. The Body Enzo Ferrari is literally all permeated with powerful sockets of air intakes: they distribute the incident air flows so as to increase the clamping force and ensure efficient engine cooling without significant aerodynamic losses.
 
The cockpit in the form of a light-winding aircraft ends with a long and narrow rear glass. It seems that it is here with the sole purpose of showing all Ferrari's magnificent Motor installed in front of the rear axle, each of the twelve cylinders of which has a working volume of 0.5 liters. This modern unit without adequate develops 660 hp.
 
The door here does not just open - it rises up at an angle of 45 degrees. The interior of a racing strict, however, compared to the F1 car, it is just a suite number: electric car, climate control, a good regular audio system.
 
Seats-buckets, inserts in the doorway, under the front panel and on the center console, the upholstery of green leather, and the panel itself is made of carbon fiber. A small steering wheel (also from the carbon fiber) is slightly reducing from above, where the LEDs are placed, allowing you to control the operation of the sequential gearbox. The pedals have no clutch, as not and the usual lever KP. Transfer switches two submitted levers: one - up, the other - down. Yellow dials speedometer and tachometer are accumulated up to 400 km / h and 10,000 min-1 - promising numbers!
 
It is curious that an attempt by a random person is convenient to get behind the wheel Enzo Ferrari can turn full fiasco. The fact is that the seat is manufactured under a specific customer and your campaign may not coincide with the supercar owner's physique. Jason, by the way, specifically asked to make a passenger bucket as much as possible to fall from the car of the filling girlfriends.
 
Kay takes the driver's seat, turn a key and - silence. Got a battery? No, just to start the engine, you need to still press the red button on the central console.
 
The booming of the starter instantly replaces the rolled animal rod of the engine, in the intonation of which high frequencies are added as revolutions increases. A person who is watching reports from racing F1, all this will easily present, for ENZO after all, after all, is almost the same motor as in formula chas.
 
Thanks to the sequential transmission, Pasia Jason moves completely calmly in the city traffic, not forcing the driver nor others.
 
Having selected on the free suburban highway, Kay refers to heat. So powerful acceleration, sitting in the car, I have not yet experienced, - Jason recalled. - To the seat cares with such a force that they do not move. As if the invisibility sits on the front panel and that there is urine rests in my chest. Passports 3.65 seconds up to 100 km / h and 9.5 to two hundred talking about many. Now it is clear that the purpose of all these spoilers, antiques and air intakes. Do not be them, I would have soared over the road. Lie joke - for every two kilogram of a car there are one horsepower!
 
On direct sections of the Jason highway, I tried to squeeze from enzo maximum, 350 km / h, or at least overcome the frontier of 300, but everything that he managed to achieve, - 283. No longer went out for two reasons: or another machine, or the road appeared ahead sharply folded. There is no sense to be upset - somehow rents on the weekend race track and will achieve my own there.
 
As you know, the first impressions are the brightest. So, driving on Enzo Ferrari a few tens of kilometers, our hero understood: no car that he had to manage before (and Kay's collection - be healthy!), Did not deliver such pleasure. I wanted to stop and get into the dance around the car - there were so strongly emotions that fill the impressionable composer soul.
 
That day, a sudden shower (in Italy, this usual business) did not allow Kei to fully appreciate the features of Enzo. The wet road and a powerful car is not the most harmonious combination, therefore he was driving at no hardening, glancing, like when switching the transfer down, the case flashes the system controlling the wheels.
 
And yet, despite bad weather, the winner's soul (and wasn't the possession of such a car?) It was joyful. The elastic motor, ready to carry on the fourth gear, even 40 km / h, perpetual carboxy-ceramic brakes, well-working in all conditions, and the consciousness that he is among the few lucky ones who had the owner of the masterpiece. Enzo Ferrari, suggested a jamiroku intuition of the connoisseur, no one for long for a long time ...
 
Jamiroaya toys
 
In the collection of Kay 12 cars, not counting enzo.
 
Among them are three Ferrari: Maranello, 360 Spider and Replica 250 GTO 1980, as well as the Rarest Lamborghini Miura 1972 with the right wheel - only seven pieces were released. According to the owner, it is not easy to ride the Miura (he has a ferocious character).
 
English auto industry is represented by three models - Aston Martin DB5 (1964), Bentley Continental S1 Park Ward (1958) and modern Bentley Arnage T.
 
German cars are much more. Jason has three Mercedes-Benz: Roadster 300sl 1963 and a couple of six hundred - short-wing (1968) and Pullman (1974), who belonged to Coco Chanel. There are two Bavarsa - BMW 1602 (the first car collection acquired by Jamirokuy at 22 years) and the favorite of Kay, the sports BMW 2002 Turbo (I adore him for excellent handling and an obversible engine).
 
Specifications Enzo Ferrari
 
Body - coupe
Number of places, people. - 2.
Curb weight, kg - 1255
Dimensions (Length / Width / Height), mm - 4702/2035/1147
Base, mm - 2650
Maximum speed, km / h - 350
Overclocking time up to 100 km / h, C - 3.65
Engine:
- Type - gasoline., V-shaped, 48-valve
- Working volume, cm3 - 5998
- Power, hp at min-1 - 660/7800
- torque, nm at min-1 - 657/5500
- Power system - distributed injection
Transmission - sections, 6-stupas., Rear., Pri.
Tire size (front; rear) - 245 / 40R19; 345/35R19.
The wheel suspension is independent, on double levers, with electronic regulations. shock absorbers
Brakes - disk, ventilated
Steering - Rack type
Price (in Europe), $ - 645000
 
Text: Maxim Stanislavov
 

A source: Magazine 5 Wheel [07/2003]