Insure a $2 million petrol hypercar and a $2 million electric one, and the electric car will almost always cost more. Often 20% to 40% more. This surprises people, because electric cars have fewer moving parts and generally better active safety systems. The explanation has nothing to do with reliability and everything to do with … Read more
An armored Rolls-Royce weighs roughly the same as two standard ones. It carries glass thick enough to stop a rifle round, a steel-and-composite cocoon around the passenger cell, and a suspension redesigned from scratch to carry an extra two tons without handling like a truck. Done properly, none of this is visible from the outside. … Read more
The dealership you buy from matters more in the exotic market than anywhere else in the car business. At mainstream price points, a bad dealer costs you a frustrating afternoon. At $300,000, a bad dealer costs you an undisclosed accident history, a missing service record, or an allocation you will never be offered again. And … Read more
Somewhere in a climate-controlled garage right now sits a car worth more than most apartment buildings. Its owner will likely drive it fewer than 500 miles a year. Insuring it costs more annually than a new Porsche. This is the strange, fascinating economics at the very top of the automotive world — where cars stop … Read more
There is a moment, somewhere past 4,000 rpm in a properly engineered performance car, when the engine stops being a machine and starts being an instrument. That moment is what buyers are really paying for when they shop high end luxury sports cars — not the badge, not the leather, but the sensation that a … Read more