It’s McLaren’s third “1” in 30 years. Combining modesty with just a dash of hubris, McLaren calls its new W1 the “The real supercar.” Does that mean other supercars are not real, or are not super? With 1,258 horsepower from a plug-in hybrid powertrain and a total vehicle weight of a claimed 3,300 pounds, we’d […]
Last of Maserati’s “Windy” GTs Like fellow Italian exotic car maker Lamborghini, Maserati hit head winds in the late 1970s as economic issues and rising fuel prices took bites out of the exotic car segment. Speaking of winds, Maserati would issue its final front-engine GT of this period, the Khamsin, using the Egyptian name for […]
Bentley’s (almost) silent four-door supercar Bentley is not the first automaker to refer to a sedan as a “four-door supercar,” as it does with the 2025 Flying Spur plug-in hybrid revealed in September. Whether by marketing departments or auto journalists, the term has been bandied about for years on cars like BMW M and Mercedes-AMG […]
