The Ferrari FXX Evolution is the ultimate track car. But the problem is Ferrari keeps them on the circuit, under lock and key. So even paying $2.5 million and joining this most exclusive club doesn't mean you can take it home to impress your friends. Unless you take a base Enzo and build your own -- like what Edo Karabegovic has done.
The Edo Competition Enzo XX Evolution waits inside his Ahlen, Germany, facility -- the end result of months of work and glorious in the less familiar yellow finish. This is Canadian importer ZR Auto's car, an Enzo taken to the absolute limit that should soon become the fastest roadgoing Ferrari in the world when it goes beyond 240 mph with the timing gear attached. Considering the speeds Edo himself says he has achieved on the Autobahn late at night, it could be even faster than that.
The Edo Competition Enzo XX Evolution waits inside his Ahlen, Germany, facility -- the end result of months of work and glorious in the less familiar yellow finish. This is Canadian importer ZR Auto's car, an Enzo taken to the absolute limit that should soon become the fastest roadgoing Ferrari in the world when it goes beyond 240 mph with the timing gear attached. Considering the speeds Edo himself says he has achieved on the Autobahn late at night, it could be even faster than that.
As Edo fires up the now 6.3-liter V-12 the explosion of noise is so utterly, ear-splittingly obscene that the police stop by to take a look and somewhere a kid starts to cry. And that's at idle. When I roll on to the industrial estate's outer road the car barks with every touch of the throttle and pulsates with racing tech and latent power. This is no longer an everyday supercar and I wouldn't want to take it to the shops. This is a fine-tuned race car for occasional thrills.
I flatten the throttle for the few seconds it takes for the first straight to disappear, it is an epiphany. There is a jolt, a shimmy from the rear as the tires find traction on the cold, wet tarmac and then the car bolts forward like the lever in the rifle and just arrives at the braking zone. It demolishes straights with the same verve as the Bugatti Veyron and will rev all the way to a window smashing 9600 rpm -- the same as the FXX.
I flatten the throttle for the few seconds it takes for the first straight to disappear, it is an epiphany. There is a jolt, a shimmy from the rear as the tires find traction on the cold, wet tarmac and then the car bolts forward like the lever in the rifle and just arrives at the braking zone. It demolishes straights with the same verve as the Bugatti Veyron and will rev all the way to a window smashing 9600 rpm -- the same as the FXX.
