Ferrari celebrates two decades of life of its 2002 Enzo, the supercar created during the Scuderia’s most glorious era. The memory below.
Ferrari celebrates the 20th anniversary of its Enzo. A machine. If you had to define the 2002 model supercar with just one word, that would be it. Machine. Due to the purpose of the project for the company, with a defined symbiosis between mechanics and design and the evolutionary traits in terms of technology that in Maranello, every certain interval of years, it was allowed to exhibit.
For this, the creation of a car that concentrated the latest advances in automotive engineering was a brand need, a hallmark that Ferrari had already demonstrated with the F40 1987 -considered at the time the fastest street model in the world- and the F50 1995 -pioneer in adopting Formula 1 technology using the single-seater block of the time.
The ferrari enzo he not only continued the method, but perfected it. It was a fine job that he sought to maximize the performance of his V12 engine. And it was fine because the materialization of each section of the vehicle was designed based on that objective. It couldn’t be any other way: the Enzo is the road-going Ferrari that represents, like no other, the perhaps most golden era of the Scuderia.
In between those five consecutive Formula 1 world championships achieved by Michael Schumacher We locate this supercar in time, which in its name pays tribute to the Wizard of Maranello and which, with its six-liter twelve-cylinder engine, 660 horsepower and a maximum speed of 350 km/h, brought the essence of the circuit to the street.
For this, the German driver himself seven times Formula 1 world champion was part of the development of the Ferrari Enzo. It was Schumacher who put it “ready”, in terms used by the magazine Engine in its August 2002 edition. Being functional in every aspect, that was the premise of this supercar, of which 399 units were manufactured.
Functional from the Pininfarina design, functional from its compact size and reduced weight, from its almost absolute carbon fiber, from the versatility of the passenger compartment and, in particular, of the seats, that “man-machine interface” attributable to the Formula 1 to which they allude in Ferrari, which consisted of the driver being able to optimize his driving position to the maximum and thus get even more out of the performance. A machine. A functional machine. That was the Ferrari Enzo and that’s how we remember it 20 years after its premiere. What else do you know about this model?