Among the Masters at the Ferrari and Lamborghini Museums
He definitely disdained the bland surfaces of the 456 GT from 1992 that “could have been made by any car company.”
But there were plenty of other cars to rev them back up like the two-ton 612 Scaglietti
and the Ferrari 458 from 2009, which Caleb called “the Testarossa of my childhood,” with its seductive rear haunches and the stylish vents near the tail and headlights.
Ferrari museum ticket buyers are offered the chance to tack on a 15-minute driving session on the Autodromo di Modena, a track once used for F1 races
and by Ferrari, Lamborghini and Maserati for testing cars.
Back in Modena, the Museo Enzo Ferrari is housed in a striking building designed by the Czech architect Jan Kaplicky, with a curving glass front
and a streamlined yellow roof — the color of the company’s logo — with incisions that look like a car’s air intake vents.
The second floor had newer mainstream models (as mainstream as these cars get) like the Gallardo
and a bright orange Murcielago, which was the ultimate supercar of the early 2000s — Bruce Wayne drove one in “Batman Begins” and a rap song, “Mercy,” featuring Kanye West is devoted to it.
