Named after the company’s founder, the 2002 Ferrari Enzo put forth race-winning Formula One technology on the road to celebrate Ferrari’s first Formula One World Championship into the new millennium.

If there ever was a car maker more famously known for its involvements in motorsports, it would have to be Ferrari. No other manufacturer has dominated Formula One like Ferrari has, being the oldest and most successful team competing in the pinnacle of motorsports. Up to now, Scuderia Ferrari’s Michael Schumacher still holds the most Drivers’ Championship titles, two from 1994 and 1995 with Benetton, and five consecutive seasons with Ferrari from 2000 to 2004. To celebrate their first Constructors’ and Drivers’ Championship titles in the new millennium, Ferrari launched the Ferrari Enzo in 2002.

Ferrari’s race-winning technology plus the genius of Schumacher saw the team winning five consecutive Constructors’ and Drivers’ Championships from 2000 to 2004. Ferrari took their cutting-edge technology from the Formula One track and put it on the road in the 2002 Ferrari Enzo. The Enzo was blessed with a monstrous 6.0-liter V12 engine which produced 651hp at 7,800 rpm and 485ft-lb of torque at 5,500 rpm. The main goal of the Enzo project was to cut down shift times to 150 milliseconds, so despite criticisms of abrupt shifting, the Enzo lived up to Ferrari’s reputation for breeding peaky sportscars. Ferraris have always been unforgiving to drivers who make errors, thus it was once said that “if you can’t handle them, don’t drive them.”

Modern-day prancing horses are now a stark difference from the Ferrari Enzo. They’re more forgiving of drivers’ errors thanks to Ferrari’s E-Diff and F1-Trac control systems. These systems govern engine and braking functions to maximize traction in all road conditions. The latest prancing horse, the Ferrari 458 Italia, carries updated versions of both these systems and puts them into a single package for even faster communication times between the ECU and the engine. What results is a record-breaking lap time of a minute and 25 seconds around their Foriano test track.

However, despite the Italia’s advancements, truly passionate Ferrari fans will always look back to the Ferrari Enzo and the era when Ferrari and Michael Schumacher dominated the world of Formula One racing. The very same race car technologies which partly made that era possible were instilled in none other than the Enzo. Its owners are not only fortunate enough to have a prancing horse which bears the name of Ferrari’s founder. They also own a machine which holds vivid reminders of what it was like to be Schumacher at his prime.