Supecars - How Much is High-Status Sport?

Supercars segment has not really many fans. There are not so people which afford a car costing over 150 thousand dollars. But the interest to this class grows, and the world manufacturers respond to it at once. Recently the quantity of offers has grown many times.

This allows to make a certain review of the supercars market and to present you the four most interesting models. Some examples of our rating are distinguished with rather low price, the other possess incredible engines, some impress with fantastic design. Each one of the presented below cars is noticeable in a premium class.

Lamborghini Gallardo - a real sport car

One of the most famous premium sport cars in the world - Lamborghini Gallardo. The car has the unique design. It is very difficult for driving in a daily life, since this vehicle is intended for sport and staggering speed. The Italian engineers have supplied their creation with the following technical features:

• huge 5-liter engine V10;
• excellent transmission whipping up the powerful unit;
• incredible aerodynamics of a body;
• low road clearance and additional pressing to the road at high speed;
• maximum speed - 309 km/h.

There is no denying that this vehicle is a real supercar. Among buyers of such cars there are many celebrities whose hobbies is collecting of cars. The price of Lamborghini Gallardo in the secondary market can reach 9 million dollars.

Today a new car can be bought for moderate 4,5-5 million. The cost of specific model depends on equipment.

BMW Z4 - supercar in a segment of sport roadsters

The Bavarian corporation has also contributed to development of supercars market. One of serial offers of the manufacturer - BMW Z4. All parameters of this car fit to this class. Though it is difficult to list criteria for supercars segment, but there are no hesitations that Bavarian roadster belongs to this class.

The car is really worthy, both in design, and in the technical aspects. The body is made in the best traditions of a sport cabriolet. The rigid roof perfectly transforms the vehicle into universal sport car. The technical features of the car are as follows:

• two petrol engines - two-liter and three-liter;
• potential of units from 135 to 250 horsepowers;
• acceleration to hundred of the fastest version - 4.8 seconds;
• fuel consumption in a sport mode - up to 14 liters per 100 kilometers.

Excellent parameters will please any admirer of sport cars. Such characteristics allow to use a German roadster as the daily car which favourably marks out this car from its competitors.

The cost of the most sophisticated version makes a bit more than 88 thousand dollars. This fact also emphasizes the model among competitors, giving it excellent advantages. Such price difference is considerable even for the potential buyer of supercar.

Porsche 918 Spyder - too rare and too expensive

There are around 1000 such cars in total in the world. The biggest part of these cars remains in Europe and go over the ocean, to the most active continent of automobile life - the North America. Only 8 Porsche Spyder are shipped to the east. So let's have a look at this fabulous and unusual model.

The design is just fascinating - that's impossible to remain indifferent to it. These surrealistic lines from future catch eyes of engineering fans. And there is a whole history under a hood of Spyder:

• hybrid power unit of 887 horsepowers;
• 3 liters of fuel consumption for 100 kilometers in combined mode;
• acceleration till cherished 100 km/h in 2.6 seconds;
• magnificent harmony in work of each element of equipment.

Surely such a creation of German corporation simply cannot be cheap. Considering a very limited quantity of cars which roll off the corporation conveyor, the cost of the first equipment set makes up 990 thousand euro, and for even more sophisticated and decorated model the buyer should buy almost 1 million 100 thousand euro. This vehicle is for real those who are obsessed with sport cars.

Mercedes SL 63 AMG - metal art

We can talk about this car very long, and find more and more compliments to its unique design. These fine lines of a body can be considered as the best in their class. Design of Mercedes SL 63 AMG is charming.

Unlike the majority of the competitors, Mercedes SL 63 AMG can be driven every day. It perfectly copes with a city trip mode, and provides comfortable conditions for long distance journeys. The following features should be underlined in a technical part:

• V8 engine with volume of 5.5 liters;
• fuel - gasoline consumption up to 10 liters in mixed cycle;
• horsepowers - 537;
• rear drive in all cars of SL series.

Corporation Mercedes has combined all these incredible features and has created a divine car which cost is more than 235 thousand dollars. Despite the immodest price this car became one of the most popular offers in the class.

The interesting fact if that the most active contingent of its buyers are owners of other models of this car concern. It proves a full confidence in the German engineering.

Sizing up

The market of sportcars is awesome. Many offers were not included to our review due to extremely high cost or not so interesting features. The four models described above are the most noticeable offers, in our opinion.

The list of offers and dealer companies from world leaders of unusual cars manufacture with fantastic technical characteristics extends constantly. We believe the market of sportcars will become wider already this year, and will bring new interesting options for each fan of sports engineering and you can look for this funny article about Lightning Mcqueen.