If you’d managed to pull more strings than a professional puppeteer and got yourself on the list of 400 people allowed to buy a brand-new Ferrari Enzo, and 50 lucky souls granted ownership of its Maserati MC12 cousin back in the mid-2000s, you could have put both in your garage for less than $1.5m.
That’s around $2.4 million in modern dollars, which seems decent value when you could spend as much on a single new hypercar these days. But if you’d left them in that same garage, never driving them and doing nothing besides dusting them now and again, your investment would have ballooned to five times its original value, having doubled inside the last five years.
Could you really bring yourself to do that, though? To never fire up the V12 in either car and just let the thing rip round to its redline? It’d be like paying a fortune for an ancient bottle of wine that you knew you were never going to drink or for John Lennon’s guitar despite being unable to play a note yourself.
We’re not sure we could have mothballed an Enzo and MC12 unless we had another example of each to beat on, but one man missed out so that the next owner can hopefully get his kicks – though the fact that these cars have survived so long with almost zero miles means they’re probably now doomed to never be driven in anger.
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The two supercars are built from the same base and used different versions of the same 6.5-liter V12. But while the Ferrari might be the more famous, the Maserati is much rarer, and the only one with real motorsport heritage, owing its existence to the need to homologate the racecars Maserati would successfully campaign in FIA GT competition.
The MC12 is also far longer than the Enzo due to its extended, wind-cheating bodywork, but less powerful and slower, too. The Maserati was rated at 621 hp (630 PS), which Motor Trend used to record 3.7 seconds to 60 mph (97 kmh) in a 2005 test and 11.8 seconds for the quarter mile. Those numbers were 0.3 seconds and 0.8 seconds down on the same magazine’s results for the 651 hp (660 PS) Enzo.
Not that the owner of these cars would have noticed, since he didn’t drive them. But if you’ve got an estimated £10 million ($12.2 million) burning a hole in your pocket and you fancy breaking in a couple of classic supercars, get in touch with UK exotic dealer Romans International.
