The current issue of Autocar magazine (23 April) features as its cover story an acceleration test at Fiorano to determine whether the new Enzo is quicker than the 10-year old McLaren F1.

Driven by factory test driver Dario Benuzzi, and apparently on a slight downhill gradient, it didn't quite make it:

The article makes interesting reading, no less because it contains the saga of how Autocar allegedly have so far been thwarted in their attempts at borrowing an Enzo for an independent road and performance test.

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