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2. Pagani Zonda - Since when did these become part of the soul-less crowd? They are beautifully made cars from italy that have managed to pull themselves up where most other small/new car manufacturers have failed. Many of the Zonda's far outpace the Enzo.
3. The Ferrari 458, the Flagship production model road car (available to everybody, you dont need to be best buddies with Mr Ferrari to buy one), was not aimed to be another Enzo, yet this car matches the Enzo on performance, it is so much more well balanced and advancements have moved on so much, it shows how far behind the Enzo is in this day of super cars.
4. The Zonda R, famously destroyed the time that Michael Schumacher set in the Ferrari FXX around the Top Gear test track. The FXX is a track car based on the Enzo, it falls into the same catagory as the Zonda R, being a non road legal race car that you cannot enter into races. I'm sure Ferrari could come along and beat it, but they haven't so such conversation is silly.
How many pre 2002 Zondas beat the time, the Enzo set? None of them. The Enzo beat the C12S by several seconds.
A Zonda F only beat it by 6 thenths, eventhought its 3 years younger. Yes, technology moves forwards. A 2007 430 Scuderia is able to beat the Enzo on Fiorano.
I never said that the Enzo is still the best supercar out there, eventhough its still pretty good. I said it was maybe the best by the time it released. And comparing two cars (FXX&Zonda R) which aren`t allowed on public roads is like comparing two race cars from different series, like a MC12 from the FIA GT with a GT500 GT-R.
And Im not saying that Ferrari (actually I rate Mclaren higher and Porsche/Chevrolet are very competitive too) can built the best performance cars in the world. It just makes no sense to compare road cars. Road cars are never designed with only performance in mind. I love motorsports, so I actually compare manufactures, tuners and teams who compete against each other in the same racing series to see which one is the best. And if -for example- a team is successfull in F1 (Ferrari) which is very challenging and competitive for manufactures, I think its not that stupid to assume that those guys aren`t the worst ones around...
Right now it looks like that Mclaren produced a masterpiece with the MP4-12C. Yes, I`m sure that there are only few car manufactures in the world, which are able to build superior car at the price range of 200-300K , which weights around 1400kg and uses a turbocharged V8.