TOP 10 SPORTS CARS OF ALL TIME

WHY SHOULD YOU READ THIS BLOG ?

before reading anything you should understand why should you read this blog and why sports cars are different from other cars :-

1) All the cars listed here are on the basis of their performance,power and obviously stability.

2) Some sports cars featured innovative designs, others had incredible power, but one factor unified them all: they were all made to drive pretty darn fast !!! here you will see what make them different.!!!

3) Sports cars in this list are still in production and gets more refined each year.

INTRODUCTION :-

  

As soon as the combustion engine was invented, men started playing with automobiles to see how fast they could make them run. It is in our blood, so we did & we will do.

 Over the past decades, hundreds of sports cars were produced by dozens of car manufacturers around the world. Which are the best sports cars of all time is a question we wanted to tackle head-on.

  

What is Sports car ? :-

A sports car is a small, usually two seat, two door automobile designed for spirited performance and nimble handling.

They may be spartan or luxurious but high maneuverability and minimum weight are requisite.

  

SPORTS CARS are engineered to go around corners and straight lines as fast as possible. They are usually expensive, dangerous and so much fun that everybody wants one. Owning a sports car is a gratifying experience but it will cost you money and back pain as they are usually expensive to maintain and not very comfortable. But who cares as they look like supermodels at the beach. 

So, here is the list of top 10 sports cars of all time :-

 10) MAZDA MIATA :-

 
No doubt there are two responses right now: those appalled by a Mazda-anything topping an F40 and those appalled that there is an extra 1 in front of its ranking. Well, to the first group, I submit to you the Miata most certainly belongs here, as it single-handedly saved the concept of the “British” sports car in the ’80s at a time when no one was making them, and became the best selling drop top of all time. It was cheap, reliable, and incredibly satisfying to drive, and cars like the Boxster, the SLK, the Z4, the S2000 all owe their very existence to the success of the unassuming Miata here. Now, as for the second group, I appeal to your baser instincts, and ask, “Have you ever lusted after a Miata?” If the answer is yes, I ask you, “Really?” The Miata was significant, and it is fun, but in a lower case ‘f’ sort of way, and in a way that’s way too responsible and way too legal. And honestly, nothing should break the top 10 of a list like this unless it is quite perverse and a bit immoral.

9) MERCEDES BENZ 300SL GULLWING :-

The Mercedes-Benz 300SL was the first iteration of the SL-Class grand tourer convertibles and fastest production car of its day. Internally numbered W198, it was introduced in 1954 as a two-seat sports car with distinctive gull-wing doors and later offered as an open roadster.
Built by Daimler-Benz AG, the fuel-injected production model was based on the company's highly successful yet somewhat less powerful carbureted 1952 race car, the Mercedes-Benz 300SL (W194).

The 300SL was best known for its distinctive gull wing doors, first-ever consumer fuel-injection, and world's fastest top speed. The gull wing version was available from March 1955 to 1957, the roadster from 1957 to 1963. It was followed in the Mercedes line by the 230SL.

 The 300SL represents the perfect mixture of form and function, and is a surviving testament to German engineering excellence in 1954 when this car stunned the world at the New York Auto Show. It is undeniably pretty, but in a restrained sort of way–very disciplined, very Prussian. It was the fastest car in its day, partially because it was also the first production car to use fuel injection, and partially because of its super light tubular frame, which made the use of those idiosyncratic ‘Gullwing’ doors necessary. By today’s standards, it is not the most brilliant car in the world to drive, but taking into account its effect on the future of automobiles, the SL certainly deserves to be at least this high on the list.

8) Nissan Skyline R34 GTR Spec-V:

 

 

 A car of, by, and for the Playstation Generation. That’s what the Skyline is. It was so extreme it was banned from the very streets of North America, and it was so dominant on the racing circuit, it was banned from certain competitions just to give other racers a chance. And the newest model, the R35 GTR, is simply the craziest most insanely capable 

 

version yet. It’s entirely programmable, from its engine to its four wheel drive, and it gives the driver more readouts than could be humanly possible to even care about. On the outside, the Skyline is almost in disguise, keeping the monster inside under wraps until that red light or that twisty mountain road comes up, and then a quick downshift and a whistle from the blow-off valve herald the release of “Godzilla” from its mundane trappings. It’s all very dramatic to be sure. But the Skyline appeals to people who are used to shifting gears with their index fingers and driving with their thumbs, and in non-numerical terms, the Skyline is rather plain. It has all the personality of a can opener, and the curb appeal of an Edmund Spenser poem–sure its beautiful, and undoubtedly significant, but you have to know something about British Literature to appreciate it. All those without a Masters in Tuning and Ricing need not apply.

The Nissan Skyline became one of the most successful cars for street and motor racing (particularly in Japan). Its dominance was so great that people started calling it Godzilla. With its increasing popularity and ever-more dominance the Nissan Skyline R34 GTR Spec-V became a cult and much loved as it repeatedly made the Ferraris eat the dust ….. It is said that in real world, in street races very few Supercar can stand upto the Godzilla …..

• Design: Based on the standard Skyline coupe frame, the GT-R version packed several racing accessories, and it became famous world wide after its appearances on video games (ever played Gran Turismo?). However, it may look very boxy or very much saloon like, but it handles like a dream. It enters a Corner like a Rear Wheel Drive Car & exits with all 4 wheels blazing … It is so well balanced and the on-board computer works so beautifully that this Car has been an out and out favourite for Street Racers, Drag Racers & Drifters …

• Performance: The R33 & later R34 version used the same 2.6-litre engine of the R32, but it introduced several improvements, like a better oil pump and an advanced intake camshaft. The result? A potency of 500-600 horse power, a top speed of more than 200+ mph (323+ km/h) and an acceleration from 0-60 mph (0-100 km/h) of less than 4.0 seconds. This 4-wheel drive 6 cylinder beast of a car was so much dominant in the races it participated that in quite a few Racing tournaments laws were revisited to prohibit Skyline from entering the competition …

• Chick Factor: Low. Going around with a Skyline would look like you came out straight from a video game. Girls won’t really get impressed unless they are Gaming Freak or in much rarer case if they understand this baby. Truly tough luck !!!

7) FERRARI ENZO :-

The Enzo Ferrari is a 12 cylinder mid-engine berlinetta named after the company's founder, Enzo Ferrari.It was built in 2002 using Formula One technology, such as a carbon-fibre body, F1-style electrohydraulic shift transmission, and Carbon fibre-reinforced Silicon Carbide (C/SiC) ceramic composite disc brakes. Also used are technologies not allowed in F1 such as active aerodynamics and traction control. After a downforce of 7600N(1700lb) is reached at 300 km/h (186 mph) the rear wing is actuated by computer to maintain that downforce.
The Enzo's V12 engine is the first of a new generation for Ferrari. It is based on the architecture of the V8 found in sister-company Maserati's Quattroporte, using the same basic architecture and 104 mm (4.1 in) bore spacing. This design will replace the former architectures seen in V12 and V8 engines used in most other contemporary Ferraris. The 2005 F430 is the second Ferrari to get a version of this new powerplant.
If the F40 car was Enzo’s greatest going away present, the great must the Enzo Ferrari be if it was deemed worthy enough to bear its founder’s name? For the layman driver, this is about as close as you will ever get to the Formula 1 experience in a road car. The engine is, again, in the middle, a V12 with 660HP and a top speed of 220mph, making the performance as insane as the flamboyant body design. It’s not exactly pretty, per se, but rather so weird as to be exotic looking, much the same way the Countach wooed us way back when. The instant you see it, you see the money it’s rolling over as well, and you notice the guy in the driver seat isn’t you, and the whole fatal attraction begins. There were only 400 of these ever made, but the number of actual surviving units decreases seemingly on a monthly basis. Unlike the Murcielago, there is in fact a shrine dedicated to Enzo deaths (all of them untimely) which reminds us all of how important it is to keep rich celebrities out of these cars. But we aren’t likely to preserve many of them without being movie stars or pro athletes ourselves. Oh, damn you Catch-22!
  

• Design: The F40 was built to perform, so its design is rustic. It had panels made of kevlar, carbon fiber and aluminum for strength and low weight. Its accented lines and the legendary rear spoiler immortalized the car.

• Performance: Despite being produced in the early 1990s, the F40 is still one of the fastest street legal cars in the world. It goes from 0-60 mph (0-100 km/h) in 3.2 seconds, and has a top speed of 201 mph (324 km/h).

• Chick Factor: Huge. It’s a Ferrari, needless to add anything else.

6) PORCHE 911 :-

 
The Porsche 911 is the flagship of the current line up of Porsche. It is a two-door grand tourer made by Porsche AG of Stuttgart, Germany. It has a distinctive design, rear-engined and with independent rear suspension, an evolution of the swing axle on the Porsche 356. Since its introduction in 1963, it has undergone continuous development, though the basic concept has remained little changed^.The engine was air-cooled until the introduction of the Type 996 in 1998.
Throughout its lifetime, the 911 has been modified by private teams and by the factory itself for racing, rallying and other forms of automotive competition. It is among the most successful competition cars ever. In the mid-1970s, naturally aspirated 911 Carrera RSRs won major world championship sports car races such as Targa Florio, Daytona, Sebring and Nürburgring, even against prototypes. The 911-derived 935 turbo also won the coveted 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1979.
In the 1999 international poll for the award of Car of the Century, the 911 came fifth.It is one of two in the top five that had remained continuously in production (the original Beetle remained in production until 2003), and was until 1998 the most successful surviving application of the air- (now water-) cooled opposed rear-engine layout pioneered by its original ancestor, the Volkswagen Beetle. It is one of the oldest sports coupe nameplates still in production, and 820,000 had been sold by the car's 50th anniversary in 2013.

• Design: The GT3 version has a very aggressive, racing look. Light materials were used for its production, and it does not have rear seats. The aerodynamics were also carefully studied to glue the car on the ground.

• Performance: The car comes with a 3.6-litre engine, producing 381 bhp. How fast can that toy go? Well, it accelerates from 0-60 mph (0-100 km/h) in 4,0 seconds.

• Chick Factor: Huge. Americans and European have different car tastes, but park a GT3 in front of any bar in Europe and I assure you that you will come out with dozens of telephone numbers.

 

5)  Dodge Viper GTS :-

 The Viper is a completely American take on a supercar. It is loud, boisterous, and packs a monster V10 sitting way out front beneath a long perforated hood. It is unrefined, unfriendly, and unforgiving–and driving one you become convinced the car is crazy, and has every intent on killing you in dramatic viral-video-on-YouTube fashion. It also derives its inspiration from a classic sports car (another American sort of thing) which in this case is the Shelby AC Cobra, and two more American car icons Carrol Shelby and Lee Iaccoca get most of the credit for developing this beast back in 1992. Since its debut, horsepower numbers have steadily increased, eclipsing the 600HP mark before its untimely–and hopefully temporary–demise in 2008. But the formula has always remained the same: 10 cylinders, monster torque, six speed manual, no safety nets, no promises. We who are about do die salute you.

• Design: The F40 was built to perform, so its design is rustic. It had panels made of kevlar, carbon fiber and aluminum for strength and low weight. Its accented lines and the legendary rear spoiler immortalized the car.

• Performance: Despite being produced in the early 1990s, the F40 is still one of the fastest street legal cars in the world. It goes from 0-60 mph (0-100 km/h) in 3.2 seconds, and has a top speed of 201 mph (324 km/h).

• Chick Factor: Huge. It’s a Ferrari, needless to add anything else.

4)  BUGATTI VEYRON :-

 

What can be said about this car that hasn’t been said thousands of times, and sometimes even cleverly? The Veyron brushes shoulders with the all-time greats not because of what it does, but how it does it. Top speed crowns are momentary honors inevitably passed on to the next generation. Already, the SSC Ultimate Aero and others have surpassed its 253mph top speed, but none have managed to improve on the ease with which the Veyron achieves its stupendous mark. It is composed at any speed, and it isn’t a stripped down street legal race car either, but includes all the amenities deserving of a 1.2 million dollar car. The Veyron has done what many said couldn’t, or even shouldn’t, be done–make a road worthy luxury grand-tourer capable of breaking the speed limit nearly four times over without getting too excited. 

Not a classic like the others on the list, but the Bugatti is the fastest accelerating street legal car in the world, so we felt like it should be included.

• Design: The car is, hhmm… rounded. The company decided to go with a new designer for this formerly. Jozef Kaban from Wolkswagen is the man behind it (personally I think that he could have done a better job).

• Performance: Packing a 16 cylinders engine with a displacement of 8 liters, the car is capable of producing 987 hp. The car holds the world acceleration record, going from 0-60 mph (0-100 km/h) in 2.46 seconds. Running at its top speed of 253.2 mph (407.5 km/h) a full tank runs dry in about 10 minutes.

• Chick Factor: Medium. Someone buying a Bugatti is obsessed with speed. Girls will think that he should be done within 2 minutes or so, if you know what I mean.

3) FERRARI 250 GTO :-

 You are looking not only at the best Ferrari of all time, but in some minds, the best sports car of all time period. Certainly, the former assertion would seem enough evidence to grant the latter. And certainly, this car is well deserving of its title as the Most Beautiful Car ever built, as its FR proportions are definitely easier on the eyes than any modern MR car. So why is it sitting here at number 3? Because an all-time list must take into account the breadth of a car’s effect, and while in its day, and in its place, the journalistic community could make a good case for placing it at number one, an all time list shouldn’t be dominated by a car that needs such an explanation. Both in terms of ground breaking performance and overarching effect on the population at large, the 250 GTO just doesn’t stack up against the final two cars on our list. 

This is the best Ferrari ever made. As a consequence, it must also be the best sports car ever made. A bit of trivia: GTO stands for “Gran Turismo Omologata,” while the 250 is displacement of each of its cylinders. It was introduced in 1962, and in 1964 its production was halted, with a total of 36 units manufactured.

• Design: With a compact berlinetta design, this car is still considered as one of the most appealing Ferraris. The concept was created by Giotto Bizzarrini and his team, based on the previous chassis of the 250 GT.

• Performance: This jewel had an outstanding V12 engine, each cylinder displacing 250 cubic centimeters, for a total displacement of 3 liters. It was capable of producing 302 horse power, and it could accelerate from 0-60 mph (0-100 km/h) in 6.1 seconds. Remember, we are talking about a car launched in 1962. Here is a quote from Wikipedia that says it all: “In the best Ferrari tradition, it made normal drivers look excellent and gave great drivers an unsurpassable advantage.”

• Chick Factor: Medium to high. The ladies would probably not give the deserved value to this car. They would just see it as an historical car. If you have the opportunity, though, please teach them about the legend behind this Ferrari.      

2) MCLAREN F1 :-

 The McLaren F1 is still quite possibly the greatest road going car of all time. It may have abdicated its top speed crown of 240.1mph, but it did so without the help of forced induction, making it the fastest Naturally Aspirated road car to this day. The F1 has a unique three seat design, with the driver’s seat positioned in the middle, making entry and exit a bit of a pain, but it optimizes the driving experience, which is the F1′s most brilliant trait. There are few cars that can rival the F1′s ability to combine street car with race car, and still fewer do so in such a mature but still sexy exterior. But while the F1 excels in the performance category, its effect is mostly aspirational, inspiring future high-end exotics and our own lowly middle class visions of grandeur. Getting an F1 is like applying for public office: you need money, charisma, and clout, and even then, there aren’t always enough spots to go around. To an enthusiast, the F1 may be number 1, but in the whole scheme of things, it’s simply too exclusive.

1) PORCHE CARRERA GT :-

 

Generally speaking, one can always tell when they are looking at a Porsche. You just scan across the parking lot for a VW Beetle, then focus, and see if it looks like it’s been to the gym recently. So it may be that when you look at the Carrera, it doesn’t look like a Porsche at all. It’s all flat, and low, and super wide. It has two spinal cords running up its back, and a spoiler that rises up and down like an oversexed Evo. It’s very very expensive as well, coming in at more than $400,000 when it was released in 2004. But for all that, it is certainly a Porsche. Driving this car is like pressing your face against a television screen–putting you so close to the action your gateway neurons in your brain threaten to put you into shock just to provide some relief. But this isn’t the sort of thing you ever want relief from, nor want to get over. The Carrera is Immediacy personified, and for most of us (all but 1200 or so of us to be precise) this fancy sort of linguistic symbolism is as close as we’ll ever get to that epiphany. 

 The development of the Carrera GT started in the late 90s, but only in 2004 it reached the streets, costing $440,000 a piece. Being one of the most aggressive Porsches ever produced, only 1270 units were sold around the world.

• Design: The Carrera GT has some big side inlets and air dams to improve the cooling system of its massive engine. It is interior is made with carbon, magnesium and leather materials. Initially it was available in 5 color variations, but custom designs could also be ordered on the factory (for some extra money obviously).

• Performance: Porsche used an innovative engine for the Carrera GT, with 10 cylinders in a V formation and a displacement of 5.7 liters, capable of producing over 600 horse power. The manufacturer claimed that it could accelerate from 0-60 mph (0-100 km/h) in 3.9 seconds, but private testers found that it was even faster, marking a 3.6 seconds.

• Chick Factor: High. The car is a master piece of the German house. Every detail was carefully laid down to create a perfect balance between aesthetics and performance.

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