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Electric Vehicles — The End of the Supercar?
Are we at the end of the road for exotics?
Exotic cars made by the likes of Ferrari, Lamborghini, Bugatti and more have come under fire recently. The performance offered by these brands coupled with their exotic looks and insane pricing left the average car buyer, and even the high-end car buyer, on the outside looking in. Electric vehicles have shifted the conversation. Does the supercar have a future?
Supercar becomes Hypercar becomes Grocery Getter
Throughout the history of the automobile, the question gearheads have always asked has been “What’s the 0–60 time?” There have always been enthusiasts willing to take stock streetcars and tweak them using everything from superchargers to nitrous to squeeze out faster quarter-mile times and to lower their 0–60 clock times. The rich and affluent bypassed all the tweaking by opting to buy off-the-shelf performance from exotic manufacturers. The term supercar is thought to have originated with Lamborghini in the mid-1960s and evolved over the years to include rare and exotic high-performance automobiles costing hundreds of thousands of dollars from low production manufacturers such as Ferrari and Porsche.
In the early 2000’s Bugatti introduced their Veyron automobile and this sparked the…
