By Torque & Tech | Cars | 10 min read
Ferrari and Lamborghini get all the attention. Every car show, every YouTube channel, every magazine cover. But the supercar world is far bigger and stranger than those two Italian brands. Some of the most extraordinary machines ever built come from companies most people have never heard of — and a few of them would embarrass a Huracán without breaking a sweat.
Here are 10 supercars that deserve far more attention than they get.
1. McMurtry Spéirling
Origin: UK | Power: 1,000 hp | 0–60: 1.4 seconds | Top Speed: 200+ mph | Price: ~$1.04 million
Most people have never heard of McMurtry Automotive. That’s a mistake.
This tiny British startup built an all-electric, fan-assisted single-seater that went to Goodwood’s famous hill climb and obliterated every record — completing the run in just 39.08 seconds. It beat Volkswagen’s purpose-built ID.R. It beat everything.
The secret is a powerful downforce fan mounted under the car — similar to the legendary Chaparral 2J from the 1970s — which creates a ground-effect suction at any speed, including standstill. Most aerodynamic downforce only works at high speed. The Spéirling sticks to the road from the moment it moves.
1,000 horsepower. 0 to 60 in a claimed 1.4 seconds. A top speed of over 200 mph. The track-only version is available for order, with road-legal versions planned.
If you want the most technologically radical car on this list, this is it.
Why it matters: Proof that a startup with bold ideas can embarrass the establishment.
2. Czinger 21C
Origin: USA | Power: 1,250 hp | 0–60: 1.9 seconds | Top Speed: 253 mph | Price: ~$1.7 million
The Czinger 21C wasn’t built in a traditional factory. It was printed.
A Los Angeles-based company called Czinger Vehicles developed an AI-driven, additive manufacturing process that 3D prints structural components that would be impossible to fabricate conventionally — lighter, stronger, and more complex than anything a normal production line could produce.
The result is a tandem two-seater — driver in front, passenger directly behind, like a fighter jet — with a 2.88-litre twin-turbo V8 paired with two electric motors. The powertrain revs to 11,000 rpm and produces 1,250 combined horsepower. The V-Max variant tops out at a claimed 253 mph.
Only 21 units were built. Every single one sold immediately.
It represents a genuine paradigm shift in how supercars can be manufactured — and that story alone is worth following.
Why it matters: The future of manufacturing, wrapped in a hypercar body.
3. Praga Bohema
Origin: Czech Republic | Power: 700 hp | 0–60: ~2.2 seconds | Top Speed: 186 mph | Price: $1.4 million
You know Praga from go-kart circuits. You probably don’t know that they also build one of the most extreme track hypercars on the planet.
The Bohema is a road-legal, open-cockpit machine built around a Nissan GT-R Nismo engine tuned to 700 hp — mounted in a full carbon fibre monocoque that weighs next to nothing. Praga has decades of motorsport pedigree in endurance racing, and the Bohema was engineered with that DNA.
It generates enormous downforce, uses pushrod suspension all round, and is designed to be accessible enough that a committed enthusiast — not just a professional driver — can explore its limits on track.
Deliveries began in the US and UAE in late 2024. A $1.4 million Czech track weapon. That sentence shouldn’t exist, but it does.
Why it matters: Czech engineering serving pure track obsession at hypercar level.
4. Aspark Owl
Origin: Japan | Power: 1,985 hp | 0–60: 1.69 seconds | Top Speed: 249 mph | Units: 50 only
Japan doesn’t do hypercars. Except when it does.
Aspark is an engineering consultancy based in Osaka — not an automaker by background — and yet they produced Japan’s first true hypercar: a fully electric, all-wheel-drive monster that recorded a 0–60 time of 1.69 seconds, making it one of the quickest-accelerating production vehicles ever built.
The Owl runs four electric motors, one per wheel, producing a combined 1,985 hp. It rides on an aluminium spaceframe with carbon fibre bodywork, sits just 99cm tall — lower than a Lamborghini Huracán — and looks like something designed by an alien aeronautics team.
Only 50 were ever built. It doesn’t have the brand story of a Ferrari or the racing heritage of a McLaren. What it has is raw numbers that humiliate almost everything else on the road — from a company nobody saw coming.
Why it matters: The Japanese engineering mindset applied to hypercars — and it works.
5. Dallara Stradale
Origin: Italy | Power: 400 hp | 0–60: ~3.2 seconds | Weight: 855 kg | Price: ~$185,000
Dallara builds the chassis for Formula 2, Formula 3, IndyCar, and various other single-seater racing categories. They are arguably the most accomplished chassis manufacturer in the world.
In 2017, they decided to build a road car for the first time in the company’s 50-year history. The result was the Stradale.
It’s modular — you can configure it as a bare-bones roadster, add a windscreen, a full hardtop, or an aero kit with a massive rear wing that generates 820 kg of downforce at speed. With the aero package fitted, a 400 hp Ford-sourced turbo four-cylinder in an 855 kg car becomes a genuinely terrifying machine.
The Stradale isn’t about outright horsepower. It’s about what Dallara knows better than almost anyone: how to make a chassis communicate, load up, and reward a driver who understands weight transfer.
Why it matters: The company that builds race car bones finally built a road car.
6. Red Bull RB17
Origin: UK/Austria | Power: 1,100+ hp | Weight: ~900 kg | Units: 50 only | Designer: Adrian Newey
Adrian Newey is widely considered the greatest Formula 1 car designer in history. He designed the Red Bull cars that dominated the sport across multiple championship eras. His last act before leaving Red Bull Racing was to design the RB17 — a road-legal hypercar that is essentially an F1 car with number plates.
The RB17 uses a hybrid powertrain producing over 1,100 hp in a car weighing approximately 900 kg. The aerodynamic package is derived directly from F1 development — active aero surfaces, ground effect tunnels, and a chassis architecture that simply does not exist anywhere else in road car production.
Only 50 units will be built, priced at around $5.5 million each. Every single one was reserved before public announcement.
You will almost certainly never see one in the wild — but knowing it exists makes the world more interesting.
Why it matters: The greatest F1 designer’s final masterpiece — and it’s road-legal.
7. Bugatti Bolide
Origin: France | Power: 1,825 hp | 0–60: 2.2 seconds | Weight: 1,240 kg | Engine: W16 Quad-Turbo
Most people know the Bugatti Chiron — the grand touring hypercar for billionaires who still want something that feels like a luxury saloon at 250 mph. The Bolide is what happens when Bugatti strips all of that away and builds a track weapon from the same W16 engine.
1,825 hp. 1,240 kg. A power-to-weight ratio that rivals Formula 1. The Bolide generates lateral G-forces that approach those of a genuine racing car, and it does it with Bugatti’s signature obsessive attention to engineering detail.
The first car was delivered in 2025 at Circuit of the Americas — driven, not trailered, straight onto the track.
As a technological statement — the absolute extreme of what an internal combustion hypercar can be — nothing else competes.
Why it matters: The Chiron’s W16 engine finally let off its leash.
8. Maserati MC20
Origin: Italy | Power: 621 hp | 0–60: 2.9 seconds | Top Speed: 202 mph | Engine: 3.0L Twin-Turbo V6
Maserati spent years in the shadow of Ferrari and built a reputation for beautiful GT cars with occasionally questionable reliability. The MC20 was their declaration that they were back as a performance brand on their own terms.
The engine is the story. The Nettuno V6 was developed specifically for the MC20, using a pre-chamber combustion system derived from Formula 1. Each cylinder effectively has two spark plugs and two combustion events per cycle, allowing far higher compression and efficiency than a conventional twin-turbo setup.
It revs freely, sounds magnificent, and makes 621 hp from just three litres. It sits in a carbon fibre monocoque, has butterfly doors, and was awarded the most beautiful supercar of 2021 by multiple publications.
It’s often overlooked because Maserati isn’t Ferrari. That’s the buyer’s advantage.
Why it matters: A genuine F1-derived engine in a car most people walk past at shows.
9. Koenigsegg CC850
Origin: Sweden | Power: 1,185–1,385 hp | 0–60: 2.4 seconds | Units: 70 total | Engine: 5.0L Twin-Turbo V8
Koenigsegg has been building the world’s fastest and most technologically advanced hypercars since 1994, out of a former Swedish Air Force hangar. They routinely out-engineer companies with 100 times their workforce.
The CC850 is a celebration of that legacy — a 70-unit limited run honouring the 20th anniversary of their first production car, the CC8S.
What makes it extraordinary isn’t just the power — 1,185 hp on petrol, 1,385 hp on E85 — but the transmission. Koenigsegg’s Engage Shifter System lets you drive it as a fully automatic or switch it into a six-speed manual mode with a physical clutch pedal. The same gearbox, two completely different driving experiences. No other car on earth does this.
It was originally planned as 50 units. Demand was so overwhelming they added 20 more. Every single one sold immediately.
Why it matters: Swedish obsession with engineering perfection taken to its logical extreme.
10. Aston Martin Valkyrie
Origin: UK | Power: 1,160 hp | 0–60: 2.5 seconds | Top Speed: 250 mph | Engine: 6.5L NA Cosworth V12
People know the Aston Martin name. Very few know the Valkyrie exists.
Built in collaboration with Red Bull Racing — the same technical partnership that later led to the RB17 — the Valkyrie was Aston Martin’s attempt to build an F1 car that was technically road legal.
The engine alone is extraordinary: a naturally aspirated 6.5-litre Cosworth V12 that revs to 11,100 rpm and screams like a modern Formula 1 car at full chat. Paired with a Rimac-developed hybrid system, total output reaches 1,160 hp. The car weighs approximately 1,000 kg and generates enough downforce to theoretically drive upside down at speed.
It was designed so that its aerodynamic bodywork doubles as the chassis. At full speed, the downforce pressing the car into the road equals the car’s own weight. It is, without question, the most extreme road-legal car Aston Martin has ever produced.
Why it matters: Aston Martin and Red Bull Racing built a road-legal F1 car. That’s it.
Final Thought
The supercar world doesn’t begin and end with Ferrari and Lamborghini. Some of the most extraordinary engineering on the planet is happening in Swedish hangars, Czech factories, Japanese engineering firms, and Los Angeles startups.
Next time someone tells you they know their supercars, ask them about the McMurtry Spéirling. Chances are they’ve never heard of it.
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