Time out on second guessing them on engineering.
The yellow Enzo that you see with the red Cobra is the same Enzo from Greensboro that the guy loaned to the magazine. I think there is a little confusion - he didn't say he had replaced the rotors after 1400 miles. They only mentioned the $30K price of the rotors and that he had driven the car 1400 miles at that point. The rotors will last a while with somewhat normal care. I can't remember if he had changed the brakes pads, but sometimes we can only get 200 miles on a set of pads at the track. (We do usually get more, but it does depend.)
The rotors and pads are straight out of Formula 1. They really are the very best you can buy. Absolutely incredible stopping power AND NO BRAKE FADE.
When talking about modern Ferraris, I think you have to give the benefit of the doubt to Ferrari. The quality on the cars has gone up considerably to the point where a 360 Modena (or even a 355) are much better everyday cars than the Cobras from a reliability perspective. The maintenance bills are going to be more, but that is because Ferrari is trying to make race cars.
On the race side, Ferrari is so far ahead of everyone that it is downright silly. The paddle shifters are something like 4 times faster than the next nearest thing you can buy. The through-the-body downforce is supposed to be great enough that you could literally drive the car upside down on the roof of a tunnel and have it stick there. Right now, even the Japanese are playing catch-up. The Ferraris in ALMS and Grand-Am aren't just faster than the factory Vettes and BMWs - they are way faster. The pendulum will swing, but right now Ferrari has it clicking on all cylinders. Err, maybe humming, not clicking.
The Enzo is meant to be a sort of McLaren-type car. It isn't for the faint or heart or checkbook. But $20-30K brake jobs aren't uncommon for race cars on the very edge of technology. $8,000 brakes are common for serious privateer teams. $700
oil changes? Well..... maybe, but it is a new
synthetic and the only thing they've tested with.
Feel free to disagree with the styling, but (and no real Ferrari fan here) I have to give them credit on the engineering side.