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A car that costs like a house and depreciates like a smartphone.
means A high-performance sports car defined by extreme speed, exotic styling, and a price tag that puts it out of reach for ordinary drivers.
from A straightforward compound of 'super' (from Latin super, meaning 'above' or 'beyond') and 'car.' The term crept into motoring journalism in the early-to-mid 20th century to describe cars that outclassed ordinary sports cars in power and glamour, but it really took hold in the 1960s and 70s as machines like the Lamborghini Miura and Countach redefined what a road car could look and perform like — vehicles so far beyond the norm that 'sports car' no longer seemed to cover it.
- origin
- Term coined by a 1920s Bentley advert
- economics
- Insurance often exceeds the median salary annually
- usage
- Mostly driven to car shows, not errands
- status
- Hypercar now outranks it, because inflation never sleeps