My car-guy cred too a hit last night.

My wife and I are binge-watching "Ballers" from HBO and are on Season 2. One of the football players buys a supercar and says "its a Spania GTA Spano and will do 230 miles an hour".  My wife looks at me for verification.  

Now, I know most supercars, and I certainly know what cars have been verified to 230, but this one is news to me.  I reply that it is either completely fake (not true) or is it some dream-car prototype that they are putting in the show for publicity (mostly true).  Apparently it was released about 2010, was in the film Need for Speed (didn't see it) and its in the Forza Game (don't play it) so it has some notoriety, but none that I noticed.  

Ouch, a supercar I was unfamiliar with.  I must be slipping.  

 FWIW, I can find nothing to back up the manufacturer's claim of 230mph top end.  With turbo-Viper power, it's certainly possible, but doesn't seem to have been hit yet.  The ones they made sell for over a million, so maybe no one is willing to risk it! 

I hadn't heard of it either.  Googled it to have a look... ugly.  I am not surprised no one cares and few were made.

I had to google it. I like Forza but haven't played since Forza 4 (no Xbox One). I missed the NFS movie. It looks like another one of those cars that makes me think "We'd call it a kit car if we weren't trying to sell them for close to or over a million a piece".

I've heard of it, it's a very obscure supercar though.

it looks like what the guys at Rockstar would put in Grand Theft Auto as their version of a Lamborghini

Chadeux said:

I missed the NFS movie.

 No, you didn't. 

Whats even sadder is one day a couple of weeks ago I saw three different supercars in one day and I could only identify one of them.  It was pulled over by the cops right next to a traffic light I had to stop for.  Got a good look at it and heard it pull away.  It was a McLaren, but which one, I don't know.  The other two I have no clue what they were.  One sort of looked like an Evora but not completely Evora.  The last I saw... no berkelying clue.  That night I said something to my wife about there being so many supercars now, I can't even keep up.

Super cars are something I've kind of grown out of so I've never heard of it either. They're cool and all just because of the engineering but with being constantly inundated with all the special editions/limited run cars seemingly every other month, and the fact that they're used heavily as lifestyle props by people I don't care for on social media, I've basically stopped paying attention.

tr8todd said:

  That night I said something to my wife about there being so many supercars now, I can't even keep up.

The number of truly wealthy people has skyrocketed in the last decade, and boutique super car companies are popping up all the time to try and capitalize. I'm surprised that they can convince wealthy people to buy a lot of them, but I guess it's all about having something unique at that level, even if it's worse than a  handful of exotics that cost half as much.

Bah, just tell her "If I haven't heard of it, it ain't worth hearing about."

I used to care about supercars when I was in my teens and lived with my parents. Not really something I pay attention to over the few couple of decades since I joined the real world.

This is the only supercar that matters, or will ever mater. It is a Lamborghini Countach. That is the only name you need to know.

Today I saw a really clean red Fiero and an equally clean yellow 240Z.  Both were just driving down the main street I live on.  I got more enjoyment out of seeing those cars than I do driving past the McLaren dealership with its row of supercars parked out front.

My views of supercars

• Pretty to look
• Typically uncomfortable to sit it
• poor visibility
• where am I actually going to be able to drive 200+ MPH?

Give me:

• Comfortable seats that adjust to the body
• capable of 0-100-0 in sub 6 seconds
• AC / Stereo / and heated seats (Hey, Michigan gets cold)
• Brown non-descript paint

Singer built Porsches are in the right direction.   Not too flashy, but just enough.

Appleseed said:

This is the only supercar that matters, or will ever mater. It is a Lamborghini Countach. That is the only name you need to know.

QFT

Grtechguy said:

My views of supercars

• Pretty to look
• Typically uncomfortable to sit it
• poor visibility
• where am I actually going to be able to drive 200+ MPH?

 

Give me:

• Comfortable seats that adjust to the body
• capable of 0-100-0 in sub 6 seconds
• AC / Stereo / and heated seats (Hey, Michigan gets cold)
• Brown non-descript paint

Singer built Porsches are in the right direction.   Not too flashy, but just enough.

Moderns supercars are have addressed the comfort issue and some of them have decent visibility.  The GT3 has excellent visibility.  If you had the means to buy one and the  restraint to drive in a way that would keep you out of jail you could easily drive a Ferrari Italia, Porsche GT or Audi R8 as a daily driver.

In reply to Appleseed :

Am I showing my age if I say I prefer the Diablo?

In reply to Chadeux :

The interior of the Diablo is such an abysmal failure (seriously, my corolla has better guts) I have a hard time with it. I also don't believe the design has aged nearly as well as moat.of Lamborghinis others. But that's me. 

WilD said:

I hadn't heard of it either.  Googled it to have a look... ugly.  I am not surprised no one cares and few were made.

Same.

I get more excited seeing a Miata in a cool color than any supercar.

Saw a BMW Alpina today.  140 large, about 200 MPH, 0-60 in 3.x seconds, driving 10MPH under the speed limit on a twisty road and blocking traffic.  True porcupine car.