| If you had all the money in the world, which car would | | | | The car which follows is perhaps best known as the |
| you buy? Well, I'm sure each of us has his/her own | | | | German supercar, manufactured by Porsche. The |
| dream car, but in the end if your car doesn't figure in | | | | Porsche Carrera GT has a top speed of 206 mph |
| the list I am about to describe, then you probably don't | | | | (330 km per hour) and accelerates from 0 to 60 mph |
| know all that much about cars! Let's take a look at the | | | | in 3.5 seconds. |
| best sets of wheels that money (and you need a lot | | | | Mercedes surely can't be kept too far down this list - |
| of money for buying these) can buy. | | | | the Mercedes Benz SLR McLaren, a sports car cum |
| The car on the top of the list, the most powerful, | | | | supercar, is developed by Daimler Chrysler in |
| expensive, and fastest production car in the world, | | | | collaboration with McLaren Cars. The SLR also uses |
| comes from the stables of Volkswagen - the Bugatti | | | | the technologies used to power the McLaren |
| Veyron 16.4. With a top speed of over 400 km/h (253 | | | | Mercedes cars in Formula One. |
| mph), the car is named after racing driver Pierre | | | | Maybach is perhaps a car whose name is |
| Veyron. Volkswagen AG subsidiary Bugatti | | | | synonymous with class and quality. Derived from the |
| Automobiles SAS builds the car and then sells it under | | | | Mercedes Benz Maybach, it was seen as a direct |
| the legendary Bugatti marque. The Veyron is said to | | | | challenger to the Rolls Royce/Bentley, when it was |
| generate '1001 horsepower' - that's how strong its | | | | introduced in 2002. The Mercedes engine in the |
| engine is! No wonder it's perched at the top. | | | | Maybach generates 550 horsepower. |
| Next on the list is the Enzo Ferrari - named after the | | | | Rounding off the top ten are the Rolls Royce |
| founder of Ferrari, the car was built in 2003. It uses the | | | | Phantom, the Lamborghini Murcielago and the Aston |
| latest Formula One technology with the added | | | | Martin Vanquish. The first Rolls-Royce Model |
| advantage of incorporating certain features not | | | | presented by BMW (in 2003), the Phantom is a luxury |
| allowed in F1, such as active aerodynamics. Once the | | | | saloon automobile which produces 453 horsepower. |
| maximum down-force is reached, it is maintained by | | | | Meanwhile, the supercar introduced in 2002 by |
| the rear spoiler, activated by computer. | | | | Lamborghini was seen as a successor to Diablo and |
| Pagani Zonda C12 F, which was introduced at the | | | | the two-seater produces 640 bhp. The Aston Martin |
| Geneva Motor Show in 2005, comes next. With a 3.2 | | | | Vanquish came into the limelight as James Bond's |
| second zero-to-sixty sprint and a top speed of 225 | | | | wheels in Die Another Day. The supercar, |
| mph (374 km per hour), the Zonda F Clubsport is in the | | | | manufactured in 2001, is powered by a 460 hp engine |
| top bracket of cars, and deservedly so. | | | | and controlled by a semi-automatic transmission. |
| Koenigsegg CCX, a supercar, is next in line. | | | | If you want to buy any of these cars, be ready to |
| Competition Coupe X gets abbreviated to CCX, | | | | cough up - because the price ranges from 255 grand |
| commemorating the tenth anniversary of the test drive | | | | (in dollars) for the Aston Martin to 1.7 million dollars for |
| of the first CC car in 1996. The car is more suited for | | | | the ultimate car, the Buggati Veyron. But if you do |
| US markets, as it was built to comply with regulations | | | | happen to have the cash, what are you waiting for? |
| in the USA. | | | | |