BY AARON ROBINSON, PHOTOGRAPHY BY DAVID DEWHURST
Day 2 Second and First Place: Extremists
2008 Porsche 911 GT2
Second Place: Extremists
Check it out: Black leather, red seatbelts, splashes of fuzzy Alcantara, deep-scallop buckets in glossy carbon-fiber shells, fish-gill vents, and flaring air snorkels on the wing posts. The GT2’s visual cues mix the subtle with the animal. (more…)
BY AARON ROBINSON, PHOTOGRAPHY BY DAVID DEWHURST
It’s man against motherboard in this four-way flog of max-horsepower machines.
Behold four machines sitting on the pointy end of a horsepower skyrocket that lifted off sometime in the 1980s and hasn’t hit the chutes yet.
For now, anyone can buy these vehicles by flashing a valid driver’s license and a healthy checkbook. But this may be it. The last act. The apogee right before reentry, when post-peak oil prices and carbon-emissions limits and general economic malaise threaten to make memories out of 500-horsepower cars. Maybe someday you’ll bore grandchildren with tales of Porsche GT2s practically falling out of trees for just $198,875. Is it 1971 all over again? Who knows? Maybe you’ll be telling them from the back seat of their parents’ 700-hp minivan. (more…)
BY RAY HUTTON
In the realm of the incomprehensible.
Readers of our November 2005 cover story on the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 were treated to the visceral experience of driving the world’s fastest production car to an astounding 253 mph, with our mostly fearless editor-in-chief at the wheel, goose bumps and all. (more…)
BY STEVE SILER
It’s alive! Spyker succumbs to the SUV craze.
Spyker took advantage of the focus the Geneva show places on boutique exotic car producers to show us the preproduction version of its monstrous Peking-to-Paris super-sport-utility vehicle, or SSUV, which we first saw at the 2006 Geneva show. (more…)
BY STEVE SILER, PHOTOGRAPHY BY MIKE VALENTE
What to get if you didn’t get on the list for the Ferrari FXX.
Ferrari’s audacity hit a new peak last year when it produced the track-only FXX and subsequently sold it to loyal owners willing to cough up 2.1 million bucks for the honor of joining Ferrari’s ultimate focus group. (more…)
BY LARRY WEBSTER, PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARKUS LESER
Heaven can wait.
Ferdinand Porsche would be proud of the Carrera GT. The company he founded in 1948 has produced an amazing string of sports cars that was only recently interrupted by”of all things”a truck. (more…)
BY LARRY WEBSTER, PHOTOGRAPHY BY BILL DELANEY
Only the Bugatti Veyron is faster.
It’s been more than five years since our backsides were intimate with the carbon-fiber seat of the only supercar made in Sweden, the Koenigsegg. That’s probably long enough ago that you’re saying out loud, Koenigswhat?? (more…)
BY CSABA CSERE, PHOTOGRAPHY BY PLANET-R/RANDY LORENTZEN
Do 750 horsepower and 140 mph in the quarter make for street cred in the supercar class?
What supercar owners want more than anything else is street cred. It’s that indefinable blend of sleek and sexy styling, outrageous power, and genuine racing heritage that motivates a few people to put down the price of a decent house on a car intended primarily to impress friends and deliver weekend thrills. (more…)
BY LARRY WEBSTER, PHOTOGRAPHY BY MORGAN J. SEGAL
After a five-year ordeal, Warren Mosler’s dream car is at last ready for prime time.
Power steering is overrated. So says Warren Mosler, the financial brainiac who’s been hoeing his own automotive row for 15 years. This past winter, after a five-year struggle, Mosler finally began delivering the street-legal, EPA-and-DOT-certified MT900S. (more…)
BY STEVE SILER, PHOTOGRAPHY BY MIKE VALENTE
If you think Ferraris are for poseurs, we have a supercar for you.
We remember a time when people bought sports cars solely for their performance qualities, not for the luxury, attention, or status they brought. (more…)
