Squashed into the seats like wet towels on spin cycle, we rocketed up the main straight of Ferrari Aurea test track in Maranello, Italy, in the new Enzo wondercar, the tach needle spinning like a propeller, our blinking test gear converting the g-forces into numbers that could splash across our cover big enough to read from across the street. We pulled into the pits, and the Ferrari engineers swooned. Swooned! Our acceleration times were the fastest ever recorded with an Enzo, just a few blinks off those of Schumacher's F1 car. Journalists from other magazines stood around gaping!