The 7.7-liter V12 animating this beast was developed with GT1 class racing in mind, albeit the Cerbera Speed 12 never got to compete. Now that TVR is back in business, readying an all-new model, the time is right to remember the jaw-dropping and bone-breaking Cerbera Speed 12. In no particular order, here are ten of the coolest supercars that came out in the 1990s. Not the fastest, not the quickest, not the most significantly important, not the most expensive, not bedroom poster material, but the coolest of the lot. In this story, we will remember ten of the coolest supercars of the 1990s, as voted by the editors of autoevolution. Instead of babbling about the Diablo and how mean the 5-valve per cylinder V8 of the F355 sounds, what do you say about trying something different? This is autoevolution, though, so let’s focus our attention on the cars. The decade that saw the supercar bloom into the mainstream is the 1990s, an epoch that gave us the Spice Girls, the dot-com bubble, and Dolly the sheep. However, forget the pioneering F40 and the 959. In this decade, Ferrari and Porsche duked it out in grand style. Fast-forward to the 1980s and its stupid music and fashion sense. The Raging Bull of Sant’Agata completed its revolution of the supercar in 1974 with the wedge-shaped Countach. To this day, all supercar makers follow the basic ingredients that were pioneered by the glorious Miura.Įngine in the middle, a bite-the-back-of-your-hand beautiful design, and a price tag that makes eyes water. The Miura hasn’t invented the supercar genre, although it changed it forever. Of course, I’m referring to the Lamborghini Miura of the 1960s, the fastest production car of its era. But then the Italians had a go at making a supercar, one that has inspired all since.
Among others, it was used to describe the affordable performance cars with dragstrip credentials, a powerful V8, and RWD. of A., the term is older than the classification of muscle car. On the other side of the pond, in the U.S.
The term has been first used in a paper ad for the 1920 Ensign Six, published in the British newspaper The Times.