Buying a car is a simple process. You go to the dealership, pick out
the one you want, and the let the haggling over the doormats and the
undercoating commence.
The cars on this list, though, are a little different. Take the gorgeous new
Ferrari LaFerrari.
Even if you do happen to have a spare $1.13 million lying around, don’t
bother calling your Ferrari dealer. If Ferrari thinks you deserve one
of its 499 masterpieces, it will call and offer the privilege of such a
masterpiece to you.
That’s what sets these dream
cars apart, and makes this list of the world’s top ten great cars a bit special.
10. McLaren P1 $1.1M
From the same manufacturer as the legendary F1, the P1 might just live up the insane legacy of the first 230 mph production car.
Lurking
underneath the carbon fiber is a 3.8 liter twin-turbo V8 which when
paired with the onboard electric motor is good for 903 horsepower and
664 lb-ft of torque. The right way to think about this isn’t even as a
hybrid, but like a roadgoing Formula 1 car with a Kinetic Energy
Recovery System. This will help you get over the fact that you can only
get 9 miles on the battery.
Straight ahead speed isn’t quite as
lunatic as it was on the F1, with the top speed limited to a measly 217
mph. But it will get you to 60 mph in less than 3 seconds, and make it
from 0-182 in 16.5 seconds, twice as fast as Ferrari 458 Italia. It will
also grip and brake like the amazing Spiderman on PEDs.
McLaren
has gone all out on the quality control, when engineers test the
waterproof seals the car is doused in nearly 4,000 gallons of water.
If you want one, act now because they just went into production and most of the 375 are spoken for.
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9. Hennessey Venom GT $1.1M
The
engineers over at Hennessey may need a little less testosterone and a
little more Thorazine. That hasn’t stopped them, though, from achieving
something that most physicists consider impossible. This little company
has produced the fastest ever production car, capable of 271 mph.
They say everything is bigger in Texas and the Lone Star State-based tuning house is happy to that statement correct.
The
Venom GT is filled with enough horsepower to stretch across the Lone
Star State itself, packing a mind-blowing 1,500 horsepower mined from a
poisonous 7.0-liter twin-turbo V8 engine. 0-60 is pegged at two seconds. The riotous acceleration doesn’t end there, though, the Venom claims a top speed of 287 mph.
If
the CERN particle accelerator keeps having trouble they might just
think about driving a Venom GT around it instead. Or maybe NASA could use it for deep space travel.
At
just $1.1 million this car is almost a bargain considering it can out
strip everything on this list, except maybe: the mighty Koenigsegg
One:1.
8. Zenvo ST1 $1.2M
Denmark
may only be known for its massive butter consumption and as the setting
of Hamlet. But the Zenovo ST1 is definitely ‘to be.’
Well, only three of them will actually ‘be.’ Apparently because they need to be hand carved from adamantium and Thor’s hammer.
The
results though are impressive, the ST1 is propelled by a turbo
supercharged 7.0-liter V8, which might have been nicked off of a P-38
Lightning. This monster powerplant is good for a top speed of 233 mph
and a 0-60 time south of three seconds.
Unfortunately for the
mighty Dane, its initial exhibitions have not gone well. It nearly
killed Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear by setting him on fire and then
didn’t even go that fast.
No wonder it looks so angry. Don’t count the ST1 out yet though, because Zenvo is hard at work.
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