From The Classifieds: 2004 Ferrari Enzo

2004 Ferrari Enzo
Price $3,600,000

Until now, the Rolls-Royce Phantom coupe featured in 2011 on carsales.com.au at an asking price of $995,000 has reigned as our top-priced 'From the Classified'.

Or it was, until this 2004 Ferrari Enzo was listed for sale at a price of $3.6m

With just 399 cars built after production began in 2003, the Enzo is one of the Italian car-maker’s most desirable cars and is rare on the world circuit, let alone in Australia. The new price for a Ferrari Enzo was around A$890,000

The Ferrari hypercar is being offered for sale through a NSW dealer as the epitome of everything for which the Italian car-maker stands. It brings F1 technology arguably as close to road-usability as anything yet built.

Combining low weight (around 1255kg) with a massively powerful 485kW/657Nm mid-mounted, normally-aspirated 6.0-litre V12, the Enzo generated enormous performance and stupendous road-holding ability.

The gearbox sounds familiar: It’s a six-speed first-generation automated manual unit, controlled by steering wheel paddles and using a single clutch to actuate shifts between ratios. But unlike F1 cars, the Enzo uses traction control to help feed the power effectively through to the road surface. This helps the claimed zero to 100km/h time of 3.2sec – which, in reality, is only a loose indication of the Ferrari Enzo’s capabilities.

The Pininfarina-designed carbon-fibre body with its butterfly-style doors attaches to a hand-built carbon-fibre/aluminium chassis and uses “active” aerodynamics to generate massive downforce.

The suspension uses pushrod-actuated shock absorbers which are adjustable from the cabin and the brakes, naturally, are carbon-ceramic Brembo. The wheels are held in place by a single lug nut to facilitate quick pitstop changes.

Appropriately, considering the car’s prime focus on uncompromised performance, there’s little in terms of luxury. The Ferrari Enzo lacks carpets and the sparse instrument panel is dominated by a 400km/h speedo and a tacho redlined at 10,000rpm.

Although the (leather-covered) carbon fibre racing seats have been noted as supremely comfortable, the only real concession to cabin comfort is air-conditioning.

The $3.6m asking price is cheap by some standards. This year, a successful businessman paid a record $70m at auction in the USA for another Ferrari — a 1963 GTO that won the 1964 Tour de France (not the annual cycling event). That eclipsed the previous record of $52m set, yet again by a Ferrari (also a GTO) in 2013.
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The metallic silver Ferrari Enzo featured here was imported into Australia on behalf of the Gosford Classic Car Museum from a classic car collector in Hong Kong around 12 months ago. It is one of a very small number Enzos that have found their way into the country via serious collectors.

Although current regulations mean the Enzo cannot be driven on the road at present, that is expected to change in the future via a more relaxed Road Vehicle Standards Bill that was introduced to parliament in 2017 with the intention of enabling more access to different specialist, classic, luxury and enthusiast cars. That has the potential to come into effect by 2019.