Enzo Car Review | Top Gear | BBC

out of the blue Nick Mason who's the drummer with Pink Floyd telephone to say that he you've got an F 60 which we could borrow if we promised to plug his new book well we aren't really allowed to plug stuff on top gear but I said to him look if we can have your F 60 I'll slow need a couple of references in and I don't think that any of the bigwigs will notice this is what the fuss is all about and it's easy to see why for sheer excitement and pizzazz it's hard to think of anything which can match it [Music] the only thing that comes close really is this book that I've been reading it's called inside out personal history of Pink Floyd by Nick Mason it is beautifully written remarkably well produced and just thirty pounds exceptional value of course anyone can buy the book it's for sale in every good bookshop whereas only 399 F 60s were made and you couldn't just choose to buy one you were chosen by Ferrari and you are only selected if they thought you were worthy [Music] one of the lucky ones was the author and part-time drummer Nick Mason so how much of a thrill was it when you got the call from Ferrari to say that you could have one of these F sixties oh it was absolutely terrific in fact it was probably as exciting as the moment when I actually got my hands on the first production copy of my book Oh your new book yeah which I have to say is absolutely excellent it really is absolutely wonderful because it sort of chronicles the whole history of a Pink Floyd thing is though how would you compare the car to the book I think that's a tough call Jeremy I think they're both enormously exciting but perhaps most importantly they're both great value for money marvelous thank you she's saying then is that his car is as good as his book so it must be quite a machine you only have to look at this formula 1 star steering wheel to know that you're in something unbelievably special I mean look at it it's a Saucerful of Secrets you've got red lights here to tell you when to change gear and then you've got one that says mode a button that button with Sat and one for lifting the nose up when you get to a speed bumping race race and look at that one now on to the traction control you'd have to be a fully paid-up member of exit to do that there's more f1 stuff to like these some gear changes here behind the steering wheel okay now when you pull one like that the on-board computer will just shut it up a bit the on-board computer disengages the clutch selects a new gear orders out a burst of torque from the engine to sustain he during the change and firms up the rear suspension to stop the back of the car squatting and it does all that in a hundred and fifty milliseconds [Music] don't be fooled though unlike the last limited-edition Ferrari f50 which was a big ugly vibrating piledriver of a thing this was not designed to be an f1 car for the road it was designed to be a road car for the road though which road they have in mind I have no idea [Music] the monster making that touring to sound is a 6 liter v12 that develops 650 brake horsepower that's 45 more than you get from a Porsche GT it's a hundred more than you get from a Ford GT [Music] sir the controls were the heart of the Sun and just like that you are on the Dark Side of the Moon I wish you were here just to feel this [Music] but then it does need colossal grunt because although it's made from carbon fiber and Kevlar it's actually quite heavy sitting still it weighs more than 1,300 kilograms [Music] 186 miles an hour however when the downforce from that body kicks in it weighs more than two the Navy so the top speed is 218 miles an hour this thing would eat a Porsche Carrera GT it makes the Porsche like a baby [Music] the astronauts have fun power like this before the gap between this and the Mercedes McLaren SLR is as wide as the gap between Michael Schumacher and David Coulthard this is now the performance benchmark this is the speed King this is the division bell between the ordinary and the absolutely astonishing Ferrari is so pleased with it they've named it after the founder of the company they call it the Enzo be the same as Lotus calling their next car the Colin it is so brilliantly focused I mean look at this cabin there is nothing to distract you there were no electric windows there's no sat-nav there's nothing to distract you from the job of driving because when you're in here that is all you want to do just drive and drive and relief the Enzo is a masterpiece there's a real sense that it's a massive barely contained fury that you're in control of something biblical something utterly magical something wonderful and when you see it parked alongside its rivals you can't help thinking that we really have reached a peak but super cars today are approaching a state of engineering perfection the thing is though Nick Mason could now take this car home we finished with it but instead look how he is going home [Music] [Music]

Channel: Top Gear

Views: 7,600,514

Rating: 4.9070001 out of 5

Keywords: BBC, BBC Worldwide, Top Gear, Autos, Cars, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, Nick Mason, Enzo, Ferrari, F60, Pink Floyd

Id: f7jsauspMmU

Length: 8min 3sec (483 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 19 2010

Reddit Comments

[u/[deleted]]

And the 400th Enzo was given to the Pope at the time.

[u/Chad_Chaddington]

Fun Fact: He was also picked for the Alfa Romeo 8C - and I got to speak with the man himself when I worked for Fiat in Italy some years back.

[u/incubusmylove]

The son of the corrupt president of the gas/petrol company monopoly in Mexico has one, that's kinda sad.

[u/watson1111]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-4v4I7Gzk0 They used one Enzo to do this

[u/Xiotech]

What can you do with: (1) Crate Fresh Enzo Ferrari, and $4 Million dollars? You can have the legendary Pininfarina construct a one-off Carbon Fibre custom styled car... the P4/5. It's even been officially sanctioned as a Ferrari (given an Ferrari emblem/badge), but they haven't bitched a whole lot about the finished product. Ferrari borrowed it for a while and were more than impressed with the cars design.

P4/5 Image

P4/5 Startup Sound

P4/5 by Pininfarina

[u/rightrevreg]

Unfortunately he no longer owns it as he passed away a while back.

[u/QuickStopRandal]

"Oh, you're insanely rich and famous? let's give you more privilege!"

I can't think of any good reason for "hand picking" an owner of a luxury good other than to be an exclusionary dick.