Ferrari Enzo, Porsche Carrera GT & Ford GT

Ferrari. Ford. Porsche. Three legendary winners of the world's most prestigious endurance race have created three stunning road cars with specs worthy of the Mulsanne Straight.

If you wanted to visit an American city reminiscent of Le Mans, France, your first choice probably would not be Yucca, Arizona. There are no quaint outdoor cafes crowded with fashionable Europeans amid the cactus plants and tumbleweeds in this dusty, mountain-ringed barbecue pit 130 miles southeast of Las Vegas. Also, in Yucca it's very hard to find croissants--though in the height of summer you could bake some without an oven.

Yet soon after our entourage of test drivers, editors, photographers, mechanics, and support staff arrives at 5 a.m. at Ford's Arizona Proving Grounds (APG), the connection to Le Mans becomes palpable. Arrayed outside a cluster of metal garages, red bodywork beginning to gleam in the dusky pre-dawn light, engines rumbling and burbling as their fluids climb up to temperature, await three fantastic cars that seem to have been plucked straight off the starting grid at the Circuit de la Sarthe.

2005 Ford GT For anyone lucky enough to have witnessed an original GT40 race car in action, it was a sight to put a lump in the throat. 2004 Porsche Carrera GT Holeeeee Zuffenhausen. Did Porsche really build this thing, or did a comet crash into the back of a red 911? 2003 Ferrari Enzo You don't call Ferrari public relations and say, "I'd like an Enzo to test, please." All 399 have been sold.