Random Ultimate Dream Cars (20 items)

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  (#1) Ferrari Laferrari

  The top offering in Ferrari's stable right now. The LaFerrari's hybrid drivetrain puts out 949 horsepower, and will slingshot the car to 60 mph in 2.6 seconds. It'll probably hit 100 mph in less time than it takes you to read this sentence. If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it - assuming Ferrari will even sell you one. 
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  (#2) McLaren P1

  The McLaren P1 is often credited as being the car that incited today's hybrid hypercar boom. Technically, it started production the same year as Porsche 918, but McLaren beat Porsche to market and around the race track. With 903 horses, the McLAren hits 60 mph in 2.9 seconds on the way to a 233 mph top speed. 
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  (#3) Koenigsegg Regera

  With a unique 1,500-horsepower hybrid drivetrain, the Regera is currently the world's most powerful production car, by far its most powerful hybrid, probably the hardest accelerating vehicle of all time from 60 to 200 mph, and should actually get better gas mileage than your average family car. It's going to take a lot of savings on gas to offset the Koni's $1.8 million price tag, but nobody said hypercars had to make sense. 
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  (#4) Lamborghini Reventon

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  Only 20 cars were produced during the Reventon's production run in 2008, making this one of the rarest dream cars out there. At $1.3 million, it was the most expensive Lamborghini ever produced when it was new, a title it held until the all-carbon Sesto Elemento came along three years later. 
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  (#5) Lamborghini Veneno

  As of this writing, the Veneno is one of the latest dream cars to come from a company specializing in dream cars. It's not the most graceful thing in the world, but at 2.8 seconds to 60 mph, a 221 mph top speed, and a $4.5 million price tag, Lambo still has a waiting list longer than the Venono's hood. 
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  (#6) McLaren F1

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  Some say the Ferrari gave birth to the modern supercar. Others say the Enzo was and remains a poor man's McLaren F1. A ride with an almost mythic status, the 243 mph McLaren F1 held the title of World's Fastest Production Car for an incredible 13 years, until the Veyron came along in 2005. This in spite of the fact that the F1 went out of production in 1998. 
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  (#7) Aston Martin One-77

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  Probably the worst name of any Aston Martin ever, but maybe that's what you get for letting your engineers go no-holds-barred designing the fastest, most expensive Aston Martin in history. The name is a reference to it's one-to-one (kg to horsepower) power-to-weight ratio and the 77 units produced. The One-77 would run right with a Carrera GT, McLaren SLR, or Reventon in any acceleration contest.
  
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  (#8) 2011 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport

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  Of course, the Veyron SS. Currently the fastest car in the world at 267 mph, but still one-third the price of a Lykan Hypersport. When was the last time you heard "Bugatti" and "bargain performance" in the same sentence?
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  (#9) 1965 Shelby Cobra

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  Back in the 60s a "hybrid" was an American engine in a European chassis and nothing represented the illogical extreme of that idea better than Carroll Shelby's 427 Cobra. Shelby created an almost perfect sports car when he dropped a Ford 289 small-block into the English AC chassis...but that idea quickly spiraled out of control when he decided to install the biggest, baddest engine in Ford's inventory. The Cobra's 4.2 second sprint to 60 mph and 12.7 through the quarter put it right on par with a 1998 Dodge Viper GTS. Which is appropriate, since the Viper was in every way designed as a modern take on the Cobra. 
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  (#10) Ford GT

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  Retro was a big deal in the mid-2000s and Ford banked on it with the new Mustang. That same year, in 2005, they released the reigning lord of all retro cars: The GT. The GT was so perfect an update of the original LeMans-winning GT40 that some had trouble telling the two apart unless they were parked side by side. It was 0.4 second slower to 60 mph than the Enzo, but at 1/5th the price, Ford's reborn GT remains the supercar performance bargain of this century. 
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  (#11) Lykan Hypersport

  The Lykan's primary claim to fame is engaging in a car chase through a skyscraper then somehow surviving a 100-story fall in Furious 7. It hits 60 in 2.8 seconds and will run 245 mph. And a good chunk of its $3.4 million price tag covers the real diamonds in its headlights. Say what you like about that one. 
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  (#12) Enzo Ferrari

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  In terms of both styling and performance, the Enzo is the car that brought Ferrari into the modern era. Some say it helped give birth to today's ultra-high-end hypercars. Five years ago, the Enzo still would have been one of the fastest cars on the road, ripping to 60 in 3.1 seconds and hitting 220 mph. 
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  (#13) Lamborghini Miura

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  All V-12 Lambos are dream cars, and this was both the first and dreamiest of them. Lamborghini himself made his money building tractors and spent some of that on a new Ferrari. When he went down the street and complained to Enzo about the Ferrari's clutch, the ensuing shouting match ended with Enzo telling Lamborghini to go build his own car. That he did, and the result was this: the first true supercar and still one of the most beautiful pieces of automotive sculpture around. In terms of acceleration, a Miura would struggle to hang with a modern, bone stock Chevrolet Cobalt, but no stock Cobalt has ever hit 175 mph. The fact that that the Miura's top speed was 1 mph better than a Ferrari GTO's was probably pure coincidence. 
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  (#14) Ford GT40

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  In the history of dream cars, few have ever or will ever stand up to the 1962 Ferrari GTO. The road car was a pure race homologation special, and the race Enzo had in mind was LeMans. If you notice a strange resemblance between the GTO and Ford GT40, that's no coincidence. This is the car Ford set out to beat at LeMans when it commissioned the GT40. And since this was also the car that Lamborghini set out to one-up a few years later, it's probably fair to call this utterly gorgeous Ferrari the grandfather of all mid-engined supercars.  
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  (#15) Lamborghini Diablo

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  All V-12 Lambos are dream cars and the Diablo is certainly no exception. Mechanically, it was an update of the Countach, so the Diablo's chassis and powertrain has been around for almost a quarter-century when it went out of production in 1998. The Diablo was nowhere near as sophisticated as some of its contemporaries, but the quickest models still hit 60 in 4 seconds flat and were good for 207 mph. 
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  (#16) Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren

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  The SLR McLaren more or less defined the high-end GT car in the early-2000s. It wasn't quite as quick or razor sharp as the Porsche Carrera GT, but the SLR was a real car that you could drive comfortably on real road trips. The fact that any car this comfortable and streetable could even approach hypercar territory was revelatory at the time.  
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  (#17) Koenigsegg CCX

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  The 2005 CCX was the car that put Koenigsegg on the map in a big way. It wasn't the company's first, but this overtly psychotic ride made 806 horsepower, hit 60 mph in 3.2 seconds, cost half a million dollars, and proved once and for all that Sweden was a force to be reckoned with in the supercar world. 
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  (#18) Lamborghini Countach

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  Very few of today's supercars don't owe a debt to the Countach; it pretty much set the styling and architecture bar for all mid-engine exotics to come. Introduced in 1974, it pioneered the wedge-shaped, sharply angled style popular among sports cars of all types all the way up through today. Some say it also introduced "cab-forward" architecture, though that's highly debatable. The quickest Evoluzione models hit 60 mph in 4.2 seconds and pegged the speedo at 205 mph, but most models throughout its history ran closer to 5.5 seconds and 180 mph. 
  
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  (#19) 2009 Dodge Viper Coupé

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  It's hard to underestimate the importance of the Dodge Viper, not just in American supercar history, but to performance as a whole. The relatively bargain-priced Viper GTS Coupe had the same effect on performance in the 1990s as the Jag E-Type did 40 years before. Running almost as quick as a Diablo for one-third the price, Dodge's Viper GTS forced everyone to reassess the concept of bang for the buck performance.
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  (#20) Ferrari F50

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  The Enzo's direct V-12 predecessor and a car many people still consider to be the best "pure" Ferrari of all time. Interesting fact about this car: Its engine was derived from a legitimate F1 race unit also used in the Ferrari 333SP LeMans Prototype race car. Somehow, the fact that the F50 was actually faster than the LeMans racer with which it shared an engine escaped notice until the car went out of production in 2001. 

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