Tuesday, August 4, 2015

High Gas Prices Have Not Hurt Supercars In The Least

By Cornelius Nunev


Though most people have been feeling the pinch of gas costs, supercar makers have hardly noticed. Though luxury brands are beginning to release green automobiles, traditional ultra-performance vehicles are still readily accessible for people who have the disposable funds. The man who has the cash to purchase a McLaren has the cash to spend more for gas.

More than the Bugatti at McLaren

AutoWeek reports the sports automobile company McLaren is working on an automobile that will come out in 2014. The business that brought the world the F1, the fastest road vehicle in the world for nearly a decade, is releasing its new automobile this year, the MP4-12C, but McLaren isn't content to rest on its laurels. Now, McLaren has a new project. The car will get about 800 horsepower with its 5-liter motor. In 2.8 seconds, the automobile should be able to go from 0 to 60 while being able to go from 0 to 200 miles per hour faster than the Bugatti Veyron with a price tag of $500,000.

Corvette brings new jobs to GM

CNN states that about 250 new jobs will be added to General Motors to be able to invest $131 million into a new Corvette. This is so it can develop a Chevrolet's sports car that is even better. The Corvette has been produced since 1981 in the Bowling Green, Ky., GM plant and will continue to do so for the next few years with the new automobile, which means several jobs will be opening up. There is no detailed information available about this new Corvette yet, and no release date has been set at this point. Chevrolet is rolling out a new Camaro for 2012, according to Popular Mechanics, called the ZL1 Camaro. The same 6.2L V-8 in the Cadillac CTS-V with over 550 horsepower will be put in the ZL1.

Individuals want more than fast in a vehicle now

Performance vehicle makers are concerned about the environment just a little bit, although the vehicles that come from these automakers do not typically concern themselves with the environment. McLaren is looking for hybrid car engineers to produce a "green" McLaren. The new 918 Spyder is an automobile sold by Porsche currently that is a plug-in hybrid that will top out at 199 miles an hour, drives three more miles than the plug-in Prius hybrid can on electric power alone and will go from 0 to 60 in 3.1 seconds, reports USA Today. It will also get 78 miles per gallon. Ferrari unveiled a hybrid version of the 599 last year and intends to have hybrid versions of all of its vehicles by 2015, according to the Daily Mail. The 599 HY-KERS is the name of the car that can get up to 25 miles per hour while going 200 miles in one hour of driving. It has the same V-12 engine too. Popular Science states that in 2009, Lamborghini announced it wanted to have a hybrid by 2015. Even the beasts with remarkable firepower under the hood are going green.




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