Are dream cars still dream cars?
04/20/2022
When we were young, we 50- or 60-year-olds today, a Ferrari 512 BB or a Lamborghini Countach was a dream car, even the Porsche 911 Turbo belonged in this league. These were some of the most expensive cars you could buy at the end of the seventies or beginning of the eighties, but they were also sports cars that could be used in everyday life if you were prepared to do so. We were even able to afford one or two of these dream cars ourselves later on and drove them for a while at the limit of what the car could do. I remember driving a Ferrari 512 BB on Italian highways in convoy with other red sports cars, on the far left and at full throttle. That was still possible back then and you didn't go to prison for it.
Today, the situation is completely different. Six-figure Porsche, Lamborghini or Ferrari cars have been replaced by sports cars with a seven-figure price tag. They have 800, 1000, 1500 or even 2000 hp and have left almost all suitability for everyday use behind them. At the same time, the roads have become narrower and, above all, much more crowded. Where can you still drive your Bugatti Chiron or McLaren P1 today? And it is hardly a coincidence that hardly any of these sports cars achieve five-digit mileages (measured in kilometers).
Such cars are hardly driven any more, because the fun they provide seems to be limited. I would be happy to be proven wrong if someone showed me a modern Bugatti, Pagani or Koenigsegg with over 100,000 km on the clock. But it seems to be the case that modern dream cars are more for the collection and intensive viewing in the garage than for enjoyment on public roads.
Can you really still dream about it?
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