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"FacebookPinterest\n\nIn the \u201980s, the supercar was truly a rare beast. These outrageously fast and phallic coupes were so high-end that companies such as Porsche, Ferrari, and Lamborghini were thought of less as carmakers than as purveyors of exclusive automotive art\u2014and posters of their supercars adorned the bedroom walls of teenage boys everywhere.\n\nThese days, though, the latter-day equivalents of those exotic cars just don\u2019t seem all that, well, exotic. Most of today\u2019s mega-rides\u2014think Fiat SpA\u2019s Maserati MC12 to Volkswagen\u2019s Bugatti Veyron\u2014are brought to you by your friendly global conglomerates. And conglomerates demand volume. Which is why, if you live in the right zip codes, you might get the impression that for every Kia on the road, there\u2019s a Mercedes SLR being driven by a bottle-blond heiress with a Chihuahua riding shotgun.\n\nAnd what does this in turn mean for that pimply-faced kid with the Ferrari poster? He\u2019s grown up to be a hedge-fund manager who\u2019s just purchased a $10 million teardown in Connecticut, under which he plans to build a fty-four-car garage. For him, the garden-variety supercar will not cut it.\n\nThankfully, there are people working on the problem, building cars outside the corporate system\u2014mainly in the cold, gray parts of Europe, by companies that, if you\u2019re not a car-porn junkie, you\u2019ve likely never heard of. What these boutique operations can do that the multinationals can\u2019t is nimbly respond to the demands of their cosmically rich customers. Ostrich-skin sun visors? Check. Brass turn signals? Check. Annual production runs of no more than five cars? Check. Unusable 240-mile-per-hour top speeds? Checkity-check-check.\n\nAlmost all of the supercars have unpronounceable names, and they all make the previously impenetrable four-second zero-to-sixty-mile-per-hour mark seem as antiquated as the four-minute mile. They are built for the man who wouldn\u2019t be caught dead driving around Monaco in a workaday Ferrari Enzo. They tell fellow motorists, \u201CI\u2019m not like you or you or you. I\u2019m loaded and I\u2019m nuts.\u201C"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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