Hypercar or hyperware: which of these 10 startup supercars do you think will actually go into production?

The sports car and supercars market is shrinking faster than the ice caps. But judging by the never-ending parade of brand new supercar startups we give space to every week, there’s a ton of wealthy investors who haven’t heard the news.

And the fact that the VW corporation literally spent billions of dollars building the Bugatti Chiron and had to get Michelin to build a carbon fiber reinforced tire safe enough to run the Super Sport 300+ over 300 miles each Transporting an hour doesn’t seem to weigh on them from doing better and getting faster.

The truth is, these projects are often just a means of sparking interest in other projects or technologies and are never intended for production while others run out of money or the complexities of developing an entire car (and brand) from scratch to underestimate.

We’ve rounded up 10 of the most rendered contenders for your supercar budget. Some have been around for a long time, some are new and some are so far-fetched that they make the Christmas story seem rational. Yes both. Take a look around and tell us which, if any, of these cars you think has any hope of making it on the road.

Develop sixteen

One of the original vaporware hypercars, the $ 2.2 million Devel Sixteen, first appeared at the 2013 Dubai Motor Show and promised 5000 horsepower from a 16-cylinder engine and a top speed of 348 mph (560 km / h). In the years that followed, the project was linked to some credible names, including Paulo Garrella, who spent many years at Pininfarina and most recently developed the SCG-003 with Jim Glickenhaus and the battery-powered Aspark Owl hypercar.

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Still, the company has yet to deliver a car, let alone prove its top speed, but unlike some other startups, it has at least one working test vehicle. Devel’s Instagram account this summer showed a prototype in action and urged us to “stay tuned”, but there has been little activity since then.

Mean Metal Motors Azani

India isn’t the first country that comes to mind when someone mentions supercars, or the second, third, fourth, or even 50th country, but Mean Metal Motors wants to change that. The all-electric Azani is said to have 1,000 horsepower and 737 lb-ft of torque, which allows it to reach 60 mph (96 km / h) in 2.1 seconds and reach a top speed of 220 mph (354 km / h) while a 120 kWh battery offers a theoretical range of 523 km.

A huge button telling website visitors to “invest” suggests the Azani won’t be taking to the streets anytime soon. We suspect the supercar is just a showcase for the company’s AI-powered small-batch production methods and modular design philosophy that could find their way into less exotic electric vehicles.

Another’s secret

The carbon-bodied Alieno Arcanum looks like a Mansory-style Lamborghini Huracan, inspired by a Vector W8, and comes from this hypercar mecca that is… Bulgaria. The technical equipment that Pinnochio apparently came up with includes six hub motors per wheel for the 488 km / h class topper and outputs from 2574 hp to 5150 hp depending on the model.

The $ 1.76 million Arcanum was scheduled to go into production in January 2021, but we haven’t seen anything beyond rendering the car, although the company’s website shows pictures of autoclaves that appear to have been bought to help Manufacture of carbon parts, and an unkempt wasteland that it is said to be, is currently being expanded into a factory.

Hyperion XP-1

Supercars are finally going electric, but not everyone is convinced that battery power is the way to go. Hyperion’s XP-1 uses hydrogen fuel cell technology to get this ferocious Bugatti-like machine to 60 mph and further to a top speed of 221 mph (356 km / h) in less than 2.2 seconds.

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Although the all-wheel drive XP-1 has been spotted in tests on US roads, we still don’t know how much power it is producing or how the multiple electric motors are configured. But we do know it’s supposed to have a range of 1,016 miles (1,635 km), which is good too, given that hydrogen filling stations make Ferrari 250 GTOs look numerous.

Dendrobium D-1

There has been a suspicious lack of news from Dendrobium in the past few years, which is a shame because this project was really promising. Designed by Singapore’s Vanda Electrics, the crazy-looking hypercar has elements of a single-seat racing car in a design developed by Peter Stevens of McLaren F1 that promised a 1,800-horsepower electric drive developed by Williams Advanced Engineering.

We contacted Dendrobium but heard nothing, although the fact that the website redirects to a page offering the URL for $ 100,000 suggests that production, which should be in the UK, is not imminent …

Electron Truva and Quasar

Most supercar startup fantasies are content with rendering a single car that we’re told will redefine the market, blah, blah, blah. But Germany’s Elektron launched two supercars on the market in a single year. When we say started from we mean that a number of rendered images and some statistics have been sent.

First up here was the Quasar, a 2,300 hp quad-motor EV designed to compete with the Lotus Evija, which is said to go from 0 to 62 mph in 1.65 seconds and have a top speed of 280 mph (450 km / h) reached. According to Elektron Motors, the Quasar will hit the market in 2023 and production will be limited to 99 units. That news was followed five months later by the somewhat more sensible Truva with 1,400 horsepower, which the company claims will sell for 600,000 euros (679,000 US dollars).

Morand cars

The nameless super sports car from Morand Cars comes from Switzerland and could pass as the better-looking little brother of the C8 Corvette. But while the C8 is a traditional ICE sports car that you can almost afford, the Morand is a 1,100-horsepower hybrid that you definitely can’t unless you got into Bitcoin in 1923.

Both the 5.2-liter V10 gasoline-electric car and an all-electric companion model with allegedly 1,950 horsepower will cost 2,300,000 Swiss francs ($ 1.9 million / £ 1.78 million), and production is on 73 units limited. That is, if production ever starts. But with notable names like former McLaren F1 racing director Eric Boullier, it has more credibility than some on this list.

Farnova Othello

The price of an imaginary 1,800 horsepower EV supercar appears to be around $ 2 million, but China’s Farnova Automotive estimates you can build one for less than $ 290,000. It’s called Othello and is based on the chassis of the Qiantu K50, which is also Chinese, a hump-backed electric sports coupe that was supposed to collapse in the US, but is not surprising. Which doesn’t bode well, right?

Vazirani Ekonk

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There’s a sweet irony in a man named Chunky Vazirani who is launching a car that is supposedly the lightest electric vehicle in the world. What if it really weighs in at 738 kg (1,627 lbs), which is the single-seat Ekonk. Vazirani claims the feat is achieved by using air instead of liquid to cool the packets of dough, about which there is strikingly little information.

SP Automotive Chaos

Beyond Ludicrous there is Plaid, and beyond hypercar there is Ultracar or the Greek entrepreneur Spyros Panopoulos which can get pretty tricky at times. I mean, just look at some of those numbers he claims for the SP Automotive Chaos: between 2,049 and 3,065 horsepower from a twin-turbo 4.0-liter V10, a 7.9-second quarter mile time , over 310 mph (+500 km / h)) top speed and prices that range from $ 6.2 million to $ 14 million depending on the specification.

Despite the presence of pictures that confirm the existence of a real car, we still can’t figure out if this is real or just some elaborate joke spread by a bunch of social media savvy 7 year olds who are the fake ones Picking mushrooms for mom’s soup. Spyros Panopoulos Automotive recently showed a seemingly static mock-up of a prototype on national television and stated that the first unit should be delivered in early 2022. So we don’t have to wait long to find out.

Which of these cars do you think has a chance on the road? Did any of them? Leave a comment and let us know.