Can't enjoy a Ferrari in Britain? Oh, yes, you can.
But can you enjoy this one?
It's called the F12.
It costs £240,000 and thanks to a 730 horsepower V12...
it's the most powerful road-going Ferrari ever made.
It's almost as powerful, in fact, as Fernando Alonso's Formula 1 racer.
Of course, at this point, people with mouths of meal would say:
"What's the point of all that, then, when we've got speed limits?"
You don't have to use all of it all the time.
In a town, you can sit back, turn on the radio,
put the suspension in bumpy road mode to make everything nice and comfy,
set the gearbox in automatic, the air conditioning just so...
and then you can drive along quite happily at 20 miles an hour.
Easy.
It's not even especially big.
I'm not saying this is tiny, but it's not preposterous.
You don't go through every gap like that...
So, this car works in Letchworth just like any other car.
But when the built-up area ends, it's not like any other car at all.
Wow. Wow, this is fast.
Ferrari say it will go from nought to 60 in 3.1 seconds.
And that flat-out, it'll be doing 211 miles an hour.
And it's not just the massive engine which makes it all so savage.
Unlike the old 599, this has a double clutch gearbox,
so, gear changes are immediate.
You build up the speed until the noise gets too much
and your ears are bleeding and then you change up
and there's no gap. How do you do that?
They've also fitted a more sophisticated traction control system,
which lets you have fun, without allowing you to crash.
But the most impressive thing is how this car manages the air.
These flaps down here, when the brakes are hot, they open,
to allow cooling air to pass on to the discs.
But the rest of the time, they're shut for better aerodynamics.
And then you have these channels on either side of the bonnet.
The air is funnelled along them into here
and out of here, so it provides a boundary layer of smooth air
passing down the flanks of the car, making it more slippery.
There's real downforce as well.
At 125 miles an hour,
the weight of the air pressing down on the car is 19 stone.
That's like having half of John Prescott on the roof
forcing the tyres into the Tarmac, giving better grip.
They have done everything in the book, then, to exploit the colossal firepower.
And the results are mesmerising.
In the past, big Ferraris felt big.
The Testarossa and the 612, they were immense.
They were fat-boy cars. This isn't.
This is light and nimble and sharp.
It's... It is spectacular.
I must confess, though, that while the car is fine,
I am struggling, because it is a bit frantic in here.
I just went airborne then.
You read about those early test pilots in Mach Two jet fighters...
going to the very limits of what was possible.
That's what it feels like in this, like you're sort of out of control.
And it has incredibly fast steering, so, the slightest movement
of the wheel causes an immediate dart one way or the other.
And then there's the throttle. You put your foot down and you think: "Whoa, yes."
And then immediately you think, "Well, no, actually. Too scary."
And when life is as hectic as this, what you really want are
for all the controls to be conventional and they're not.
All the knobs and buttons for the lights and the wipers
and the indicators are all on the steering wheel, which moves about,
so, they're never where you left them.
You can't even sneeze when you're driving this car
because if you did, well, they'd have to hose you off the road.
To try and explain what I'm on about, I've come to this tennis court.
This is what it's like to drive an ordinary car...
on the roads of Hertfordshire.
There you go, Golf GTI...
BMW M3, Ferrari 458.
This is easy and manageable
and I could do it all day.
Now let me show you what it's like to drive...
a Ferrari F12.
Oh, in the face!
The Stig says, this is the only car in the world
that can hold a candle to the Lexus LFA.
He also says it's the first Ferrari he's ever driven that he would actually buy,
if he had any concept of money, which of course he doesn't.
Me, though...
I mean, it is brilliant,
but I think it would be better still if it had slower steering...
and it's hard for me to say this, but a bit less power.
Yes, you can really enjoy it in Britain...
but you can't really enjoy all of it.