Now Ferrari's engineering skunkworks is hotly pursuing similar performance figures with its F70 supercar.
The Ferrari Enzo replacement goes on show at the 2013 Geneva motor show using the F12 Berlinetta's 6.2-litre V12 aided by an electric motor.
The F70 - the Ferrari internal code for the car and not expected to be used as a name for the production vehicle - is to be the Ferrari flagship.
So it must outdo the F12 in power and performance -- meaning it must beat the F12's 552kW and 3.2 second acceleration time.
The F70 is likely to delivery around 650kW and get the acceleration times below 3 seconds.
So what will it look like? Hopefully something like the image above – which is an artist impression rendering from Pininfarina and uses styling cues from the 430 and Enzo.
We will have to wait until March next year to see the real thing.
Neil Dowling
Contributing Journalist
GoAutoMedia
Cars have been the corner stone to Neil’s passion, beginning at pre-school age, through school but then pushed sideways while he studied accounting.
It was rekindled when he started contributing to magazines including Bushdriver and then when he started a motoring section in Perth’s The Western Mail.
He was then appointed as a finance writer for the evening Daily News, supplemented by writing its motoring column. He moved to The Sunday Times as finance editor and after a nine-year term, finally drove back into motoring when in 1998 he was asked to rebrand and restyle the newspaper’s motoring section, expanding it over 12 years from a two-page section to a 36-page lift-out.
In 2010 he was selected to join News Ltd’s national motoring group Carsguide and covered national and international events, launches, news conferences and Car of the Year awards until November 2014 when he moved into freelancing, working for GoAuto, The West Australian, Western 4WDriver magazine, Bauer Media and as an online content writer for one of Australia’s biggest car groups.
He has involved himself in all aspects including motorsport where he has competed in everything from motocross to motorkhanas and rallies including Targa West and the ARC Forest Rally.
He loves all facets of the car industry, from design, manufacture, testing, marketing and even business structures and believes cars are one of the few high-volume consumables to combine a very high degree of engineering enlivened with an even higher degree of emotion from its consumers.
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