Helica 1913
This car is a great demonstration of how far we’ve come as humans. It only took two mechanics losing their fingers for the invertor Marcel Layet to finally work out that the propeller went on top.
The idea was simple, “a plane without wings”. Passengers sat one behind the other like in a plane and the front mounted propeller put out 6kw of power. Not a lot by any means, but when you consider that the car only weighed 250kg, it’s nor surprise it hit speeds upwards of 170km/h.
Maybach Exelero
It may look more tlike a bad charicature of rap moron 50 Cent than a one-off design made for a tyre company, but the Maybach Exelero is mostly a throwback to the machine beasts of the 30’s.
The specs on this machine are astonishing as well. A V12 Twin Turbo engine adds to the more than 2.5 tons of weight. And the price…$8 000 000.
Ferrari 250 Testarossa
There’s almost no racing event in the world that this car hasn’t impressed at, and that include Le Mans and the Sebring 12 hours. For this reason alone, every petrolhead worth their carbon emission wants to drive one.
The V12 engine spits out 223kw and can go from 0-100 in just 6 seconds. So saught after is this car that one went for a record $16.4 million at auction last year.
Lamborhini Reventon
Not rare if you’ve ever spent any time playing Forza, but you have to admit that this car is breathtakingly beautiful. Like something Batman turned down before deciding on his other car.
Borrowing the engine from a Murciélago LP640, the Reventon has a maximum speed of 340 km/h and accelerates to 100km/h in 3.4 seconds.
Only 20 were made and they each cost $1 000 000. The only thing similar they could find to race it against was a Tornado fighter.
This car is proof that not everybody in the 80’s was snorting coke. Some people will still taking acid and smoking weed.
This car was only reproduced 30 times and each one was given its own rear-facing periscope and gullwing doors.
