575M. First honest 200MPH production car.
Probably not. And I have a Maranello myself. Very special GT...but not quite exotic enough to be a supercar IMHO...
Miura is generally considered as the first supercar for obvious reasons. Outrageous looks, great (by standards of the time) performance and, equally important, complete lack of racing pretensions. Most obvious predecessors like 250 LM and GT40 were racing cars that could be driven on the road. Of course, later there were also supercars adapted for racing but generally term should mean vehicles with mid-engine, lack of rear visibility, creature comforts and any other practicality, built mainly for showing off. With passing of time things changed so now we can accept front engined models as supercars, borders erased and filled with crossovers of all sorts, just like in all other segments. But the answer of first is not technical, not even historical but technical. So Miura is the first supercar, and it doesn't matter if there were other models before that could be fitted into description, as we think of it today.
I agree that the Muira is the first super car .... There are some other cases for cars of the teens twenties thirty's etc ... But the Muira wins However I'd also make the case for the Ford Gt40 which was launched as a full road car wire wheels and all but I think the Muira still wins as it was only made for the road The Countach simply took up,where the Muira left off
That would be a hot rod. A suped up, but generic car, regardless of how fast would not earn the supercar title. Not to me. By that definition, any number of tuned up rice rockets with fart can mufflers and neon lights would be a "supercar", a premise to which few reasonable prudent people could accept.
Supercars were just those sporting cars of there day that exceeded their more mass production brethren by a big margin. Here are one or two from several manufactures. Alfa Romeo 8C2900B T33 Stradale Ferrari 400 Superamerica 250 GTO F40 Lamborghini Miura Countach Masserati A6GCS Zagato Ghibli (or Bora) McClaren M6BGT F1 Jaguar XKSS XJ220 Bentley 4 1/2 Liter Blower Speed Six Blue Train Spl Mercedes 500 SSK 300SL Gullwing Porsche 911 2.7 RS 959 Bugatti Type 57 Atlantic EB110 Duesenberg - SJ Speedster BMW - M1 Talbot Lago - T150-C SS Pegaso Z102 Ford - GT40
Completely false statement. The F40 already broke through that barrier 15 years earlier, and maybe you've heard about the McLaren F1 and Jaguar XJ220 amongst others? Unless you consider them 'dishonest'. And in any case, why would breaking through the 200mph barrier in 2002 for a production car be any more "super" than breaking through 180 mph in 1967? There is no doubt that the Miura qualifies as a supercar. Arguably the 500 Superfast also does. I like George J's post above, a lot of cars there that are genuinely ahead of their contemporaries. Onno
Given that the Miller itself was a copy of the 1913 Peugeot engine... Offenhauser. The Greatest Racing Engine Ever Built? - Rod Authority
What was the first 'hyper car'?*-* Gassing Station - PistonHeads Some there say it was the Enzo. IMO was the Over 200mph topping F40 Obviously the origins of the term is what makes it or breaks it. P.s. we know already which the first Megacar is.
Supercar/Megacar is a state of mind and opinion. There are cars that can hit 200+mph but are probably not as engaging and visceral as my dearly departed AE86 or Miata.