Ferrari F40

Engine

Type: Twin-Turbo V8
Displacement: 2936 cc
Horsepower: 478 bhp @ 7000 rpm
Torque: 424 lb-ft @ 4500 rpm
Redline: 7750 rpm

Performance

0-60 mph: 3.8 sec
0-100 mph: 8.0 sec
Quarter Mile: 11.8 sec @ 124 mph
Skidpad: .94g
Top Speed: 201 mph
Braking,
60-0 mph: 122 ft
Slalom Speed: 68.3 mph

Puntiki: The Ferrari F40 is one of the most exotic and best looking Ferraris made. But it is very basic on the inside and had a tendancy to give the driver a head ach after prancing around in it for over 30 minutes. The twin turbo V8 produced 478 HP, and although you can get more hp than that now in a $65,800 US Corvette Z06, it was very impressive at the time. The car was commissioned by the great Enzo Ferrari before he died. The top speed of 201MPH gave it the highest top speed of any production car made until the boys at McLaren popped out something called the F1. I would own one of these F40's in a heart beat.... I'd also invest in some good quality earplugs and go for a long drive.

Pablo: Ah yes. the swansong of il maestro Enzo Ferrari. This car scared Nigel Mansell (then a racer for Ferrari) when he drove it, which says something about how powerful it was when it was released. The F40 is gorgeous to behold, frightening to drive, a pleasure to own and as Puntiki has said, noisy to drive. It is in my opinion, the best car of the 1990s, certainly the best Ferrari made in a decade of awful Americanised Ferraris like the Testarossa and the 348.

One of my favourite computer games of the late 1980s was Test Drive, which pitched the Ferrari F40 against the Porsche 959, the limited edition 4wd turbo Porsche that held the crown as the world fastest car for around 2 months - until the F40 was released. I would always choose the Porsche because even at age 12 and 13 I was biased against Italian engineering - even playing a game I expected the Italian car to break down.

But I digress - the F40 is a gorgeous Ferrari - and Enzo Ferrari could have passed into his well deserved place in the afterlife knowing that the Archangel Gabriel would have asked him for a test drive in an F40 for a no-questions asked entrance pass to heaven.