Price: £250,000 Engine: 4,308cc, eight cylinders Power: 707bhp @ 8,350rpm. Top speed: 216mph. 0-60mph: 3.5 secs.
It takes "a special kind of crazy" to take a supercar like a Ferrari or a Lamborghini and tune it as if it were a boy-racer, says Autoblog.com. Fortunately, Novitec Rosso is "just such a breed of crazy". It has already supercharged Ferrari F430s, "which pretty much go like stink". Now, with the introduction of the Novitec Rosso F430 Race, "it would appear that any remaining deodorant has worn off. What's faster than going like stink? Going like stench? So be it. That's what this striped rocketship does."
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