Are Supercars a Europen thing?

[thefuzz]

An American company couldn't make it doing it the same way.

Only Americans would buy the cars, and certainly only the ones that didn't choose to by Italian and German ones.

I just can't really see the extreme wealthy of Germany buying many American supercars.

[Chimera]

I can't even afford Europen. I have to buy bic and pilot pens.

[Guest]

Vector used to be around....

[Doyle]

Fug the Euros.

My first car was a 1982 Camero Berlinetta edition. I was awesome in that thing.

[SorthNarolina]

America's culture has never really supported super cars, quality cars, or sports cars. We made quality cars in the early to mid 20th century but fell behind after Europe got over WWII. Caddilac was easily one of the best brands in the world.

Europe is full of tiny and windy roads. As well as having much more expensive fuel. All of it's motorsports involve corners rarely any oval tracks. Not much popular organized professional drag racing.

America is full of big ass interstates. Our fuel is cheap. We like NASCAR and Drag Racing. Also we are workaholics. We commute to work and construction is one of our largest industries. So we like pick up trucks and daily drivers.

That's why our supercars are mostly muscle cars. Also there are many cars today that perform very well to their European rivals. The high performance Caddilac keeps up very well with it's European counterparts, especially if you use the price bracket. The corvette is better than most sport cars in it's price range and even much further above. The the new mustang gt incredibly has actually put up numbers very similar to the current gen M3 which is insane to be anywhere close to it.

The super car companies are all owned by the large auto giants anyway.

Porsche, Bentley, Bugatti, and Lamborghini are owned by VW.

Ferrari is owned by Fiat. Fiat also owns a lot of Chrysler.

Rolls Royce is owned by BMW.

Lotus and Mclaren aren't owned by a larger auto maker but they make a lot of money with engineering contracts and racing. Ferrari makes a lot of money with racing too.

Aston Martin is also largely independent I think they are owned by the same people that control Lotus.

Pagani has their engines sourced from Mercedes. Most of these small car makers cannot afford to make their own engines.

Pretty much every truly legendary car company has gone bankrupt and been bought by a larger auto maker. They always put quality and design above profit, if they made any profit at all.