EXOTIC-SPORTS-CAR entrepreneurs are the world's most optimistic accountants: Enzo Ferrari, Carroll Shelby, Aston Martin's David Brown.

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This year marks the 50th anniversary of what Enzo Ferrari reportedly called the most beautiful car in the world: the Jaguar E-Type.

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Topping the list is a 2003 Ferrari Enzo owned by none other than Tommy Hilfiger.

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The yet unnamed car, to be unveiled in Geneva, is heralded as the successor to the Ferrari Enzo.

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Remember the Ferrari Enzo (2002-04), 651 hp, 3, 200 pounds, skeletal in carbon fiber, pushrod suspension, F1-derived V12 mounted amidships?

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The Enzo, notes Ferrari's boss, Luca di Montezemolo, actually sold out before its official Paris preview, even though the Italian manufacturer had boosted the production run by nearly 15%.

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The highly talented rogue mechanics behind the fake Ferrari ring shaped slick "Enzo red" exteriors from fiberglass and fake car parts.

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At the high-performance end of the market, Ferrari's F-150 Enzo-replacement, with a price tag well in excess of a million euros, will be challenged by McLaren's P1, which was first seen as a concept in Paris last September.

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Piero Ferrari, son of the carmaker's late founder Enzo, said he was "astonished and saddened" by certain statements made after Sunday's race.

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