1. You haven't heard of it.
2. You have heard of it.
3. You just confused this with something else.
Whatever the answer is, you have something to gain out of what I’m about to say here. Let us start off with clearing the doubt of the no. 3's. If you happen to Google the word “hypercar”, you would probably end up with something like this: "The Hypercar is a design concept car developed by energy analyst Amory Lovins at the Rocky Mountain Institute. This vehicle would have ultra-light construction ..." NO!!!!!.. This is not what im going to be talking about. It’s the exact reason why I included the word 'Classification' at the end of the title so as to be a bit clearer.
Alright since we got that out of the way let me enlighten you. So No's 1,2 & 3 Listen up you might get to know something you never knew.!!
By “classification”, I don’t ONLY mean the separation of cars into categories depending on their capability to perform, price, brand, image etc. My approach to “classification” is a bit different.
Consider a scale from 1 to 10.
1-4: From one through to four what you see are the very merely ORDINARY cars. The only purpose of these is to get you from point A to point B. Eg: Maruti's, Kelisa, Hyundai Accents, Toyota Corollas. They are perfectly adept at doing what it says on the tin, but nothing more. What they lack is charm. What they lack is charisma. What they lack is character.
4-5: And here we have the classification as 'Sporting Sedans'. These are basically ordinary family albeit with a little more ‘spice’ - more powerful engines, uprated suspension, etc. Think Civic Type-R, Lancer GT, Toyota Mark X, etc.
5-6: We have the Sports classification. Here we have cars such as the Mitsubishi Evolution, Subaru Impreza and also the daddy of them all – the Nissan GT-R.
6-8: Here we have the Super cars and the GT cars. Examples of supercars would be the Ferrari 458, Porsche 911, Lamborghinis, etc. GT cars often fall into a similar price range, but are totally different in character – examples include the Aston Martin DB9, the Ferrari California. While supercars are extremely performance-oriented and have a lot of ‘flash’, GT’s are more luxurious and tend to be more understated in terms of styling and image.
9-10: We have the The Hyper Car Classification.
The ideal way to explain what hypercars really are would be to explain them in terms of something that every driver would understand......TOP SPEED.... The Hyper Car Classification usually includes cars which are capable of exceeding speeds of over 380kmph and pass certain regulatory standards to remain road-legal. This classification came into existence back in the year 1992 with a single, extremly powerful legend of a car. A car known very well to date as the MacLaren F1. Although it was produced back in 1992 it took them 6 years to realise its true potential and it wasn’t until 1998 that it broke the world road legal car speed record at 391kmph. And it wasn’t several years into the new millennium that anyone managed to build something faster to beat this thing. It’s because of these reasons that I believe that the MacLaren F1 deserves to be called the father of all hypercars.
After the MacLaren of course there were only a few limited amount of cars that actually were able to fall into this classification – almost all of the Koenigseggs (which was why shervantha will be explaining each of the koenigsegg cars in detail) like the Agera, Agera R, CCX, CCXR, Trevita, Bugati Veyron, Bugati Veyron Supersport, SSC Aero, and the SSC Aero Tuatara. All capable of going over the 380kmph mark.
All said and done the question that no one asks is 'How easy is it to travel at such speeds?'. If someone says this car can travel at this speed, they'll all go like 'WOOOOW''' and that’s just about it. But there is a factor that sets these cars apart from all other car categories. Let me explain.
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Ok...consider this situation. If you were to wave your hands about from where you are sitting right now, you'd notice that your hands feel pretty much weightless, rightttt...okay...what if you were under water, could you move your handsas easily as you could ealier... No right....you feel as if there is someone blocking your way. The same applies to these cars. These cars will feel the same effect as if you are under water at around 150, 160 kmph, but as you move up the speed scale the water turns into a wet pudding and finally at around 400 kmph its like trying to more through cold custard. That’s pretty tough I’d say. These cars have to be engineered with such precision to produce engines powerful enough to counter these forces, while remaining road-legal at the same time. I mean it’s really difficult to explain to you what the effect will feel like – you really have to experience it first hand.
Ok that’s one difficulty they have to face. The other is to make these cars go as fast as possible and hold them down onto the ground. The take-off speed for a Boeing 747 aeroplane is aground 350 kmph. So can you imagine the effort needed to be put into engineering aerodynamic shapes that generate just enough downforce to keep the car on the ground but also not too much as to weigh the car down excessively and thereby reduce its speed capability.
Considering all that effort that needs to be put into this, I think you all will agree if I say this...... Hyper cars don’t just deserve to be stated as just another classification but they should be more rightly known as "The Pinnacle of Engineering Excellence".
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