TOP 10 US SPORTS CARS
No.1: Shelby GT350H
Engine: 4.6l V8
0-60mph: 5.0secs
Top speed: 150mph
Power: 325bhp
It was on September 1965 that the American General Manager Peyton Cramer struck up and has a deal with Hertz to offer the 1966 GT350H Mustang as a rental car. It worked to promote the Shelby Mustang to potential buyers.
Now most hire companies would hunt you down, throw you in the county lock-up and eat the key for such obvious abuse of their machinery, but car rental company Hertz has decided to celebrate that ‘golden age’ with a special edition Shelby Mustang GT350H - an old school muscle car.
The Mustang car is exactly the kind of car that eaned the US its reputation for producing ham-fisted sports cars. But its still an absolute motoring icon, and it centainly eats the Fiant Punto for your holiday transport.
No.2: Fisker Tramonto
Engine: 5.4l supercharged V8
0-60mph: 3.6secs
Top speed: 202mph
Power: 610bhp
This is purely an American engineering; beneath the fascinating Fisker is the chassis and driver train on a Mercedes SL55 AMG, which makes the near $300,000 price tag a bit of a choker.
It has been extensively tunes by the German powerplant before the Fisket’s California coach building workshop adds an entirely new and sexy body. And its all about $200,000 of aluminum and carbon fiber.
While it looks great, comes with a sublime interior and goes like the wind, it’s mighty pricey and, at almost two tones in weight, it claws its way into the supercar category only by the skin of its teeth. And it’s as German as it is American.
No.3: Dodge Viper SRT-10
Engine: 8.2l V10
0-60mph: 4.0secs
Top speed: 190mph
Power: 500bhp
Dodge Viper SRT-10 was the last model produced for current Dodge Viper. It is more exclusive than ever made before with more that 7,000 possible appearance combinations available for limited production run of 500 cars. It has a revised fifth gear ratio.
Viper comes with a formidable character and the chassis is totally overburden, but the rounded looks are only marginally less menacing that the inmates of Death Row, and its name after a venomous snake. Dodge Viper SRT-10 is called rubbish but it’s still as cool as any car out there and that’s what counts to this kind of sports car.
As faint as a punch in the face and about as efficient as the Child Support Agency, the Viper is nonetheless the most famous American sports car of the last decade.
BMW managed to extract the same power with three liters less engine capacity, but the Viper still sounds like a true supercar every time it fires up. This slice of American muscle wills also embarrasses most cars on the road - provided it stays on the black stuff itself.
Engine: Lithium batteries
0-60mph: 3.0secs
Top speed: 110mph
Power: 700bhp
Mullen GT Electric is a simply outrageous amount of horsepower to match the top end speed of a Toyota Yaris, but then its an electric car powered purely by Lithium batteries.
It has a V8 petrol engine Mullen that is available for those who care a little less about the environment, but the collaboration with the Hybrid technologies is the one that’s got the press talking.
It’s not terribly sexy, but more eco-friendly than the entire Prius-driving Hollywood set, so it’ll sell in spades when it hits the market.
The “Carbon Fiber Super Car” is said to match the performance of its gas-powered counterpart, with a top speed of 180 mph and a trip to sixty in a smidge over three seconds. The GT is normally powered by a Corvette V8 engine, but this version will get its go-juice from a pack of lithium-ion batteries.
No.5: Corvette Z06
Engine: 7.0l V8
0-60mph: 3.7secs
Top speed: 198mph
Power: 505bhp
Corvette Z06 was the current flavor of the month for the American soil. Corvette Z06 was ultimate United States sport scar. To keep weight down, the Z06′s front fenders, wheel housings and floorboards are made of carbon fiber. Massive six-piston front and four-piston rear disc brakes provide more than enough stopping power to haul the Corvette Z06 down from speed.
It’s still about as advanced as an abacus, using leaf spring suspension that even Land Rover considers outdated and balsa wood in the floor. The plastic bodywork is so flimsy at the back it can be deformed with one finger, too. But somehow the Z06 is about as much fun as you can get on four wheels.
No.6: Mosler MT900S
Engine: 7.0l V8
0-60mph: 3.4secs
Top speed: 200mph
Power: 540bhp
Mosler MT900S is probably the fastest ever, and was also a mid-engine sports car that is build at United States and the United Kingdom by Warren Mosler. There are also three sub models produce aside by this. This car was introduces last 2001 and the MT900S continue the production. MT900S was the replacement for the Mosler Raptor.
Three years after developing the car in America, Warren moved the production to Norwich, home of Lotus, and now you can buy them from Racing Green in Guildford.
No.7: Ford GT
Engine: 5.4l supercharged V8
0-60mph: 3.8secs
Top speed: 205mph
Power: 500bhp
Ford GT was being called the American legend and certainly one of the most hard line and smoothest looking muscle cars ever.
Ford GT40 is unquestionably nominated to be the most famous racing car ever on the Blue Oval and this shows respect to the 60’s Le Mans Winner has sold like hot cakes; it is partially due to Jeremy Clarkson’s overconfident plugs. This car is a mid-engine supercar.
He sent his back, mind you, after the aftermarket alarm almost sent Britain’s favorite motoring journalist to the asylum. But he did go back and buy it a second time.
This car has been a very good looking car and for me this is not called sports car rather it was called The Muscle Car.
No.8: Pontiac Solstice GXP
Engine: 2.4l turbo
0-60mph: 3.9secs
Top speed: 130mph
Power: 177bhp
Pontiac Solstice is a small sports car that was introduced at the 2004 North American International Auto Show. Pontiac was nominated for the North American Car of the Year award and Design of the Year Award from the Automobile Journalist Association of Canada.
Pontiac Solstice is the winner with the Solstice – lightweight and small engine sports car for the US market.
The turbo-powered machine promises to be the most efficient to come from Pontiac’s gates and if the car gets the sporting set-up to match its engine, then finally America may get a small, effective sports car that wasn’t imported from the UK.
If you recently purchased a new Solstice, you’re still covered by the Best Coverage in America, including a 5-Year/100,000-Mile Transferrable Powertrain Limited Warranty,1 plus Roadside Assistance and Courtesy Transportation.
No.9: Superperformance Brock Coupe
Engine: 6.6l
0-60mph: 3.9secs
Top speed: 207mph
Power: 501bhp
Daytona Coupe was the first and only American made sports car win the World Manufacturer’s Championships for Grand Touring Racecars. The name Daytona Coupe was originally referred to as the “Dayton Car” and Coupe officially earned its name while being built for the Dayton Race.
Daytona Coupe was also the one of the most famous racing cars in American history. It helps United Kingdom police to install a national speed limit after it was tested at 185mph long the M1.
Peter Brock the legendary designer was given a second chance to prove and make a new legendary design along with Bob Negstadt the man behind the original AC Cobra’s chassis. This was a multinational effort made by the of the, actually Dayrona Coupe was build in South Africa, at the same facility that produces Noble cars, but its as American as apply pie.
No.10: Saleen S7 Twin-Turbo
Engine: 7.0l twin-turbo
0-60mph: 2.8secs
Top speed: 248 mph (399 km/h)
Power: 750bhp
Saleen S7 was lunched in 2002 with a 500bhp poweplant and was only called a true supercar and that time this car is the fastest production car.
But now even BMW’s M5 has that much prod and the revised 2006 model comes with two turbochargers and a basically outrageous 750bhp. That’s enough to decimate a Ferrari Enzo - in a straight line at least.
Preposterously, Saleen is now offering a performance upgrades for the S7 that’s can take up to a Bugatti Veyron, and equals to 1000bhp and that just getting silly.
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