We are awash in production cars with 500 horsepower or more. So many we recently . What we found was that the power alone doesn’t necessarily make the car exciting; it’s easy for it to be smothered in sound deadening and weight. As a contrast, please enjoy this 1970 Ferrari 512 S, with a 5.0-liter V12 that absolutely roars.

The Ferrari 512 is probably best remembered as the car that lost to the Porsche 917, which is probably fine from a historical perspective. What that leaves out is that these cars sounded absolutely incredible. Here’s one of the Scuderia Filipinetti cars (it , if you’re curious) ripping at Imola recently, to show you what I mean:

These cars were a bit of a rush to get together as , and were not the most competitive even with their new V12s good for 550 horsepower at a lofty 8,500 rpm, . Many a modern car can hit those power figures (pretty much any V8-powered Mercedes-AMG or BMW M, for instance), but very few will sound so good. Just listen to the raspiness, the growliness, the wonderfulness.

Try to hear that in a modern Honda Fit, you cannot!!!!!! Even though we stan the Honda Fit.

These were not slow cars by any means; the improved versions of the things clocked Mans. Watch the video to get the noise, but keep an eye on how spare, small, and frail these cars were. Unreal.