At the top of the market, EV hypercars are a disappearing breed
Monterey Car Week is an annual celebration of automotive culture at the extremes: extreme performance, extreme rarity, and extreme value. Cars offering more than 1,000 hp (746 kW) are de rigueur, “unique” models are everywhere you look, and machines costing well into seven figures are entry-level.
A few years ago, many of the new cars debuting during Car Week focused on outright speed and performance above all else, relying on electric powertrains to deliver physics-defying acceleration and ballistic speed. Lately, there’s been a shift back toward the fundamentals of driver engagement, emotional design, and purity of feel.
Internal combustion is again at the fore. One of the main reasons is a renewed interest in what was old—so long as that old thing is actually new.
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