Porsche and its parent company Volkswagen had a great 2013.  Picture it this way: Every time someone drove a P-car out of a dealer’s lot, they left behind a bag with $23,000 in it.  The Stuttgart company then booked that as pure operating profit. While Porsches are relatively low-production cars, at 18 percent, they’re high-margin. […] More »

 UPDATE – Round Five Winner: McLaren P1! Ah yes… March. I’ve never been one to pay much attention to March madness, when it comes to college basketball, but I do like the idea of a good tournament. So instead of blathering on-and-on about basketball on a car site, we’re doing our own little battle Royale throughout the […] More »

Bugatti’s Veyron hypercar, in all its iterations, is all about big numbers.

Here’s an interesting bit of information and perhaps a nice chunk of news for the ballers. Famed  hypercar manufacturers, Bugatti (and undisputed king of automotive opulence) is reported to be sitting on a total of 40 Veyron Grand Sports. That’s about $85 million of inventory. Sprinkled within the announcement are a couple bits of good and […] More »

A little historical gem for everyone today. As we know, Bugatti has done more than enough to make themselves a household name in the last nine years. Since the relaunch of the French-native, German operated Bugatti automotive brand they’ve certainly become quite the ubiquitous nameplate, standing at the crest as the oligarchs of opulence; royalty […] More »

Usually, a score of one to one is boring.  Nobody’s winning.  In Swedish, when spoken by Koenigsegg Automotive AB, it translates to “one horsepower per one kilogram of weight.”  And not just dry weight, either.  Christian von Koenigsegg, the founder of the eponymous firm, said his upcoming gut punch to competitors in the hypercar realm […] More »

If the 1,200 brake horsepower from the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport is not enough for you, then I’ve got bad news for you. Dr Wolfgang Schreiber, president of the hypercar company, told Top Gear, “We will not produce a ‘SuperVeyron’ or Veyron Plus, definitely.  There will be no more power. 1200PS is enough for the […] More »