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• 2013 Geneva Motor Show: The Top 20 Debuts

  In Featured / By Tom Anderson / 5 March 2013

  

  More than a few people think supercars are an endangered species. All the concerns about flaunting wealth inequality and using lots of gas are just some of the forces conspiring to make these most athletic of automobiles less and less desirable for both builders and buyers. So we can look forward to a future with fewer tarmac-melting monsters and more plug-in kumbaya cracker boxes, right?

  Not so fast, kemosabe. If the lineup of world debuts at this year’s Geneva Motor Show is any indication, we may be entering a new golden age of 200+ mph hypercars. The difference this time around is many of them are a bit more responsible, with overdrive (and occasionally double overdrive) 7-speed transmissions and hybrid assist. Of course, these aren’t the only automotive stars in the lakeside Swiss municipality. Here are the 20 premieres that really stir our hot chocolate.

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• Bertone Mantide May Go After Chevy Corvette ZR1 Record at Nurburgring

  In Auto News / By Ari Cox / 10 July 2009

  

  As it currently stands, there is only one Bertone Mantide in the world. You would think that the owner of a $2 million prototype would keep the car safely tucked away in a special garage as a kind of trophy piece and  never place it in harm’s way. But alas, it is not so with one Dan Watkins, a British ‘gentleman racer’ and financier, who is tentatively planning on putting his car to the true test of performance benchmarking by taking on the Nurburgring track record set by the Corvette ZR1.

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