Saturday, 17 March 2007

Ferrari for $3000000


American director and producer James Glickenhaus, who made his fortune by the second class action movies, has spent three million dollars to purchase unique Ferrari.

The first step to learn about the purchase, American journalists asked the Glickenhausa whether he was sorry for that amount of money. The millionaire said that you won't be able to take three million dollars with you, when you die and he would like to enjoy the purchase here and now.

And indeed there is a lot to enjoy. The car, ordered by director was named Ferrari P4/5 and is Ferrari Enzo model, which appearance was fully reworkede by Pininfarina. The fact that Ferrari has no plans to issue more then four hundred copies of Enzo and that with this amount of production the car could be considered as collection car, did not appear too convincing for James, and he had paid three million American dollars for stylization of car's body to look like Ferrari model from the mid 60th of last century.

Enzo Ferrari - is an object of worship of many auto fans. It's one of the most famous super car of the planet, from a technical point of view and one of the fastest production cars now. Glickenhaus did not wish to make any changes in technical abilities of the original car, but there was a joke that the eccentric collector in a private conversation asked to increase the power 12-cylinder engine with 660 to 666 horsepower, perhaps in the hope to negotiate with a representative from the "other side" and take the car with them in otherworldly place.

Joke is a joke, but carbon body of the car changed very significantly. One of the conditions of the transaction was to create a completely original appearance. As a result, Ferrari P4/5 Pininfarina there aren’t any exterior details, which could be found on any, even on very rare series of Ferrari. Chopped brink Enzo were transformed to smooth contours of “consmic” design. Aerodynamics of the car was completed by Pininfarina in Turin, and developers say, that its aerodynamics is much better than the base model’s one. This is quite obvious, since the body has better aerodynamics, but also has much lighter weight, which is just 1,200 kilograms (165 kg lighter then Ferrari Enzo). A dynamic performance most was affected the most. Ferrari P4/5 Pininfarina accelerates to 100 km/h in just 3.55 seconds, and reaches maximum speed of 362 km/h. In comparison, acceleration of Enzo, is 3.65 seconds, and its maximum speed is 350 km/h.

Wizards from Pininfarina also improved interior of the car - mostly in the cockpit’s area. They also set up new exclusive seats and appliances with new scales. The first official car show scheduled for August, when he will participate in the contest elegance Workshop in California Pebbl-bic city. Glickenhaus which is not yet clearly describe the future of his car, I am confident of the victory of his car in the competition, and contends that if the competition between the Ferrari Enzo and Bugatti Veyron for both cars was a lot of fans, the same Ferrari P4/5 Pininfarina to date simply does not exist.
The owner of this, probably, the most expensive Ferrari insists that there aren’t any cars from this class, which could compete with his treasure.
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