Ferrari Enzo tuned by Gemballa revealed

This is the Gemballa-tuned Ferrari Enzo - dubbed the Gemballa MIG-U1.

The German tuner, famous for modifying BMWs, has decided to throw caution to the wind and modify one of the world's most exotic and rare supercars ever built - just 399 examples of the Ferrari Enzo existed. A few of those have been written off too...

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The MIG-U1 - to our eyes at least - looks scarily like a Maserati MC12, itself based on the Ferrari Enzo, and gets a dramatically styled side, front and rear bodykit, together with an enormous rear wing and exhaust tailpipes which sit on top of each other rather than side-by-side.

The interior has also been given a thorough going over. The MIG-U1 gets red alcantara (a lot of it) in a specially stitched pattern, an LCD screen on top of the dash and a new audio system, to make sure it fulfills the 'hav' part of 'chav'.

No word on performance, but Gemballa would be foolish to turn up the wick on one of the most potent V12s in existence. The standard Enzo sports a 6-litre V12 producing 650bhp, which is good for a 3.3s 0-62mph time and a top speed of 219mph.

Mind you, just last year Edo Competition fiddled with a Ferrari Enzo to produce 700bhp and gave their modded version a 230mph top speed. So it seems blasphemy isn't beyond the tuning fraternity...

It looks distinctive, but we're not sure Gemballa have got this one right. However, it could have been a helluva lot worse - remember the Gemballa-tuned Porsche Cayenne we reported on in April this year?

The Cayenne - which they called Tornado 750 GTS - produces 740bhp and will hit 62mph from rest in just 4.3 seconds before maxing out at 186mph.

But forget those prodigious performance figures for a second, and remind yourself how it looked. Go on, we dare you...

Vijay Pattni.

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