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By: Ken Wilson

Following the legendary tradition of Ferrari cars, the new Ferrari Enzo amazes with its incredible blend of good technical features and exquisite, luxurious appearance. A true leader in the field of speed cars, Ferrari Enzo addresses adrenaline fans and buyers and Formula One fervent watchers. However, if you are neither of the aforementioned you are also most likely to love it as the Enzo is quite a charmer.

With an attractive new design, aerodynamically shaped, bearing the traditional fiery red as a color, the Ferrari Enzo is sure to catch your eye. Its slick curves construct its image of a warrior in a race with other cars. As an innovatory feature Ferrari Enzo comes equipped with a carbon fiber front bumper and (this is quite astonishing), instead of having mirrors, the vehicle behind the car is displayed on an inside navigation system. Yet, there’s more to a Ferrari Enzo than its striking, appealing looks. Ferrari Enzo is indeed a head-turner, but there are plenty technical features that are not to be neglected.

For those who know mechanics, Ferrari Enzo is a 12-cylinder speed car, using the latest Formula One technology such as sequential shift transmission or carbon-ceramic brake discs. Its V12 engine takes the car to 100km/h in just a bit more than 3 seconds. As for its top speed, it is somewhere around 348km/h.Quite astonishing! For those of you who can’t figure out all the abovementioned, just note that Ferrari Enzo is a blast! - Fast, safe and strong. Just check out one of the many Ferrari Enzo videos and you’ll be convinced right then and there.

The above mentioned word “safe” is worth stopping for to examine. The Ferrari Enzo engineers deserve appreciation for the success in building up a model both fast and safe. Let’s face it, speed cars, super cars are supposed to make you feel like Superman: ready to fly. When you say super car you say thrill, action, but also a sense of danger that is necessarily involved. That doesn’t quite sound the same with safeness, does it? However, the experts that engineered Ferrari Enzo managed to put the two together and the many drive tests have proven it. The verdict is positive: the Enzo has a high protection degree, even if it is super speedy.

Due to its amazing features and appearance this car has rapidly gained popularity and you can now find Ferrari Enzo videos spread all over the www in any page that speaks about Formula One or speed and strength in general. You must have at least seen one of the many Ferrari Enzo videos - the red mechanical cheetah smoothly races on the tracks, sending shivers of thrill and excitement over you spine while watching. You unavoidably want to be in one of those Ferrari Enzo videos. You want to be its driver. You want to be its master, the master of that unleashed man made wonder.

Thus, while watching Ferrari Enzo videos, we identify our wishes to succeed with this winner car. It helps us express our unspoken dreams of being a leader. It helps us relieve the frustration we sometimes confront with in day to day life where things don’t always go our way and we are unfortunately forced to admit defeat. By associating ourselves with this super car, by experiencing action at its fullest while just watching Ferrari Enzo videos, we simply say “I want to be number one!”

To sum up, Ferrari Enzo is a wonderfully crafted speed car that definitely deserves its success and fame. Apart from being a good vehicle, the Enzo is a statement of power, the element we all long for. Therefore, if we can’t all be in a Ferrari Enzo, we at least want to watch Ferrari Enzo videos which can lend us a short sip of victory as an unforgettable feeling.

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Stop rubbing your eyes, you’re not seeing double. This is not a reprint of our April 2008 “Pony Expressed” tuner Mustang shootout or a flashback from 1965.

Yes, this Mustang looks exactly like the winner of that comparison test, the Shelby GT-California — same Grabber Orange/silver-striped uniform, same finishing school (Shelby Automobiles, Inc., of Las Vegas, Nevada), and all the same upgrades. But while that GT-C graduated with only a dash-mounted Shelby diploma, this Shelby GT/SC got full honors.

Underhood is a Paxton high-output centrifugal supercharger system, complete with an air-to-water intercooler and exclusive Shelby/NOVI 1200 compressor that cranks out 462 horses and 419 pound-feet of torque. That’s 143 horses and 89 pound-feet more than the naturally aspirated GT-C and a difference that’s immediately noticeable.

While both Shelbys can reduce their rear tires to clouds of white smoke and piles of black filings, doing so is positively effortless in the GT/SC. The GT-C requires concentration to lay a fat stripe of rubber; the GT/SC requires concentration not to. Of course, there are slightly more practical advantages to all those extra ponies. At 4.6 seconds, the GT/SC sprints to 60 mph a half second faster than the GT-C and runs the quarter mile eight-tenths quicker (13.0 seconds at 110.2 mph).

Despite the similar, 14-inch six-piston front brakes and 20-inch wheel packages, the GT/SC’s cornering and stopping performance is worse than the GT-C’s: 0.92 g versus 0.98 on the skidpad, 122 feet versus 117 from 60 mph, respectively. Could be the tire size and type. Standard GT-Cs run 255/35 and 275/35 profile Pirelli PZeros front and back, while the GT/SC has 265/35 Nitto NT555 tires all around.

Want one? Shelby Mustang GT/SCs are being sold in limited quantities via a nationwide network of Shelby Mod Shops, including SoCal’s Galpin Ford, the guys responsible for this $55,963 one. Musclecar fans should recognize the Galpin, Paxton, and Shelby connection. In 1965, Galpin Ford became the first Shelby dealer in California, carrying the GT350 and Cobra. Paxton blowers were offered through Galpin as an option on the 1966 and 1967 GT350.