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The Holy Trinity: New Era Hypercars

Holy trinity, the cars every car enthusiast knows of, they are the legendary Porsche 918, McLaren P1 and the Ferrari La-Ferrari. But to be correct they WERE the holy trinity, the new era of super cars that were released in the recent past like the McLaren 720s have destroyed these hyper cars by pulling insane numbers on the track, 720s defeated the 918 in a drag race and 911 GT2rs destroyed the lap record of 918 and La Ferrari on the Nurburgring. No question about the fact that 720s is faster than a P1(they are lying about the 720s' peak performance) And it is not possible to imagine how fast the new hyper cars are going to be, and with all this a few new hyper cars were announced this year, some of them are: APOLLO IE : This is a fairly new company that has been making super cars since 2004. Even though these guys were working on a small budget earlier, looks like now they have some backing. The new Apollo IE , took people by surprise when it was unveiled at the Dubai ...

Did Koenigsegg really beat Chiron?

Koenigsegg is a small Swedish hypercar manufacturer which makes the fastest cars on the planet in a straight line, but the problem with the ‘egg’ is that they break down under pressure and they are NOT the fastest cars around the track or the fastest overall. These cars are great on a straight line because of their sick aerodynamics and their bigger engines but they are not the fastest cars around the track due to the fact that they take a long time to come out of the corners and the lack of traction. Koenigsegg Agera R The Bugatti is a really comfortable, daily drivable hypercar that can be easily driven and somewhat tamed by a noob, the Chiron is a 4-wheel drive car that can on any day beat the Koenigsegg around the track because the latter is rear wheel drive and lacks traction, while the ‘bug’ is an all-wheel drive and to be clear I am not defending Bugatti and belittling Koenigsegg, the achievement is indeed commendable. Have a look at the stats: Bugatti Chiron ...

Aston martin, the Ferrari destroyer?

Ferrari has always been known as the gentleman’s car, it is a company that has been every car guys poster car as well a performer on tracks, having wonderful designs and being a great GT car, due to this it had a reputation of being a gentleman’s car until lately when the company has been under constant criticism by people in the car world due to its slow implementations of new policies and slow reaction to changes happening in the car world like coming out with a new SUV, or the Ferrari FUV as they call it, the decision of not going electric and other issues like imposing baseless conditions on customers to test or modify their own cars. Aston Martin Valkyrie Aston Martin meanwhile is acting smart by reacting to changes rapidly and moving ahead skilfully in the industry by changing their policies, going electric, making great gentleman’s car and pushing the bar higher and higher by making smart decisions time and again. They are competing with Ferrari by launching their o...

Ferrari FUV ?

Is Ferrari's decision right about the SUV ? With other competitors in the race Ferrari has finally decided to make an SUV , which rather they call as the FUV (Ferrari Utility Vehicle) . Ferrari has finally decided to move on from its rigid Sports car only approach to a more flexible one. Ferrari swore that it will never make an SUV but the demands of the market are pushing the company to take such a decision, like every other sports car manufacturer has moved in the SUV segment.     Ferrari plans to sell about 2k-3k FUV's and they expect this FUV to double the company's profit by 2022. Being 3 years behind from cars like Urus from Lamborghini , they have decide to launch it by 2021. With the Urus entering the market by 2019. Ferrari FUV is to be priced around 3,50,000$ and Urus in the sub 200,000$ range. Ferrari is changing strategy with the upcoming models by providing a gas- electric option , and is speculated to come with a V8 engine. As reports sug...

FAKING NURBURGRING LAP TIMES

Nurburgring racing circuit has been the benchmark for automakers to put their cars to the test and show off their lap times proving technological advancement and capability. But recently quite a few supercars have been in the news for their record making and record breaking lap times surprising the car community. Automakers prove their competitive advantage by making lap record and flaunting the numbers and that makes sense as car enthusiasts are more likely to buy high performing machines. Due to which some automakers have been in the news by FAKING lap times . The genuine record breaker Porsche 911 GT2 RS The Porsche 911 GT2 RS was unveiled long ago at good-wood, since then it has been a matter of discussion in the car world, and it was all sold out just after launch with people paying about $150,000 over sticker. Few months go by and our dear Porsche is still in the news breaking all records at the Nurburgring race track. And now some people suddenly realize its v...

The Affordable Porsche EV.

At the Frankfurt motor show this year Porsche unveiled its plans for the future along with Porsche 911 GT3 Touring Pack and the 918 resembling mission E,. It is the first all-electric, 4 door sports sedan from the company and will be available by 2019. Moreover, it starts just at $85,000. Which is sick, It’s going to be cheaper than a Tesla! There is no doubt this is going to be a game changer for Porsche in the electric car market and we can say that for sure just by looking at the claims it has made about the car and the features it’ll be providing with the car. Tesla might have to change their product a little bit and react to this launch, because people would love to associate themselves with the Porsche brand name rather than a Tesla, with the $85,000 price tag you get the interiors of a Panamera, driving experience, quality, reliability and performance of a Porsche,with this the Mission E becomes an affordable electric car which is value for money. Key specs of the...

Will 911 GT3 touring pack affect the value of 911R ?

Recently at the Frankfurt Motor Show, Porsche revealed its new 911 GT3 Touring Pack, and the people, the media and almost everyone else went crazy about it majorly for two reasons, first one being that it is an affordable manual 911 from Porsche and the second one being,” It will lead to depreciation of the 911R” which is a purists car with a manual that costs about $5,00,000(price today) base price and had only 991 units made. But this is not the case, Porsche isn’t cheating its premium paying VIP customers and taking a sh*t on their face by dumping the car world by “a more affordable 911R”. Let me tell you what exactly are these cars. THE 911R : It’s the purest 911 ever made, it’s 3900 pounds being the lightest 911 ever, it comes with a 4 litre engine from GT3RS producing 500 horse power. This car is a project by Porsche to remind the world that making a great supercar is not only about setting lap times and a great 0-60 time but also about the driving experience, it de...