Sports cars, supercars, and hypercars are all closely interlinked, but all stem from the basic concept of a modern sports car – a vehicle whose primary focus is on performance and driver enjoyment, even if that compromises it in other facets. All cats are animals, but not all animals are cats, if you will.
Supercars, then, are perhaps better defined, as Lamborghini does, as super sports cars – superlative to the concept through performance, style, and exoticness of both the engine and materials used. It’s a vague definition and one open to interpretation. But I kinda like that, as sports cars, in general, are profoundly emotional vehicles. I adore the notion that one person can be blown away by a car that I find to be quite meh, or that a manufacturer can evolve the flawed premise of an engine behind the rear axle to the point that, even in naturally aspirated form, it can be among the fastest cars around the Green Hell.
Hypercars are perhaps even tougher to classify. They are supercars dialed up to 12, oozing excess in one or more ways, be it performance, noise, beauty, or mechanical prowess. Anything groundbreaking is worthy of the title, but so too is anything so meticulously, beautifully crafted that it can stand on its own as a piece of art. Bespoke, beautiful, expensive, fast, but not necessarily all of these things at once – these are the hallmarks of a hypercar.
