BMW M6
Price: £93,820
Power: 560bhp
0-62mph: 4.2sec
Top speed: 155mph
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Porsche Boxster/Cayman
Price: from £37,589
Power: 265bhp
0-62mph: 5.8sec
Top speed: 164mph
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Mercedes-Benz SL63 AMG
Price: £110,375
Power: 537bhp
0-62mph: 4.3sec
Top speed: 155mph
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BMW M135i
Price: £30,525
Power: 320bhp
0-62mph: 5.1sec
Top speed: 155mph
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Subaru BRZ/Toyota GT86
Price: from £24,995
Power: 197bhp
0-62mph: 7.6sec
Top speed: 140mph
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Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Roadster
Price: £176,925
Power: 571bhp
0-62mph: 3.8sec
Top speed: 197mph
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Aston Martin Vanquish
Price: £189,995
Power: 565bhp
0-62mph: 4.1sec
Top speed: 183mph
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A jury consisting of 66 international motoring journalists has selected what it regards as the 10 best performance cars of the last 12 months. The list will be whittled down to three finalists, which will be announced at the Geneva Motor Show on March 5, with the overall winner being named at the New York motor show on March 28. Click through this gallery to see the 10 cars in contention, starting with:
Ferrari F12 Berlinetta
Price: £239,317
Power: 730bhp
0-62mph: 3.1sec
Top speed: 211mph
The two-door jewel made in Germany starts from $ 845,000. Hybrid motor, with a range of 30 kilometres with only the battery.
The automaker's sports car in Houston, Texas, is worth $ 1.2 Million today. Planning a limited edition of 29 specimens, 11 of which are already sold. Does not reach the performance of Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse by just 4 km/h, nearly 428 km/h.
The world record goes to the jewel of Sant'Agata Bolognese: $ 4.5 million. In 2014, the home of Italian origin, but part of the Volkswagen Group will produce only 9. - See more at: http://www.topbestbox.com/2014/04/top-10-most-beautiful-and-expensive.
The Swedish sports car House offers a $ 1.5 million cars as "strating price", although it was recently sold a copy to Singapore for $ 4.2 million. The Agera's has about 1040 HP, reaches 100 km/h from rest in 2.9 seconds and can exceed 400 km/h speed
It will not be the most expensive car in the world ($ 2.5 million), but is the fastest ever. The speed reached by this Bugatti is ben 431 km/h. Production began in December 2005 has seen the 400th copy sold. There are only 50 available.
Here’s what the Edsel Owners Club (a group of fans, I might add) have to say about the Edsel Corsair, “The name Edsel has become synonymous with disaster and failure.” That quote comes from the people who actually like this car. A re-designed Mercury – the Edsel was hailed as a savior to the Cold War (seriously!) The front end was a disaster and everyone hated it. Ford spent in excess of $300 million (in the 1950s no less) designing this car and it was a complete and utter failure. The transmission had push-buttons on the steering wheel which resulted in a lot of accidental gear shifting while driving or trying to honk the horn. Not only was the car terrible, but even the name Edsel was a marketing disaster. Ford even supposedly shipped cars to dealers with missing parts and instructions on how to make them whole!
The 1980s was not a great time for American auto manufacturers and the Cimarron is a prime example of this ineptitude. The Cimarron is nothing more than a Chevrolet Cavalier with a bit nicer clothing. If this sounds like a bad idea it’s because it is. The Cavalier was never a great car in its own right, but changing the body and calling it a Cadillac was a crime. Shockingly, the Cimarron never sold well. Worse – the car was so bad it nearly put Cadillac into an early grave. Luckily we all recovered, but the Cimarron lives on in some dank parking garage pretending to be a real car and telling the other vehicles that, “no really, I am Cadillac! Look, it says so right here on my hood!”
Ah, the 1950s. A nostalgic time when men were men and they degraded women on a regular basis with outdated ideas like – hey, what women really need is their very own car because the ones we design for men just won’t work for them! Thus was born the Dodge La Femme – a true pink and white painted gem that was basically a Dodge Royal Lancer (another spectacular vehicle!) This wondrous machine included pink seats, a rain cape, a matching purse loaded with all kinds of womanly “needs” and an umbrella. Amazingly this vehicle just didn’t sell that well. Plus, you know, it was basically a Royal Lancer which wasn’t exactly a piece of finely tuned engineering itself. The La Femme was sold for only two years before someone probably thought.