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Very few people can afford to own a luxury sports car, but at the same time most people dream about it. Both groups, dreamers as well as the rich, will enjoy this information about luxury sports cars. These deluxe sports cars, mostly because they are only available as a limited edition - meaning low production numbers - inevitably must be sold for a lot of money. Typically you can only buy them with two doors, because that is part of the strategy for making them high-performance. Bearing in mind that amongst the wealthy there are those who demand and get great satisfaction from opulence, some car makers have created luxury sports cars so lavishly appointed that they are a class by themselves.



As a way to gather an idea of how they stack up in terms of prices and features, let's look at a small cross-section of luxury sports cars. A Vespa Motor Scooter Helps Make Transportation Stress-Free The Ferrari F430 Spider is up at the higher end for sports cars that are luxurious and expensive. It's almost the fastest car in the world, second only to one other, if perhaps speed means a lot to you, with Ferrari having clocked it working at 193 miles per hour. There has generally been a reliability in Ferrari promoting and endorsing only top of the line concepts for its cars, and this awesome speed has lived up to expectations. As an all around sports car, The Ferrari F430 is assumed to be the best F-1 technology of the company, and with a 486-hp engine, you can buy this car for only $180,000.



Endorsed as the key attraction at the time, Jaguar's 2007 series releases included the highly-priced luxury sports car, the Jaguar XK. The revised features have a bonded-aluminum platform, rendering it on the list of lightest of the Jaguar designs. Its forerunner, which had the DOHC 4.2 liter engine, weighed more. In terms of overall flawlessness, Porsche's Cayman is without question their finest product. Many people are still captivated by the vehicle, even though it is not the most expensive design, or fastest car on the market. A Vespa Motor Scooter Makes Travel Anxiety-Free They enjoy the way it drives on the road with the mid-engine balance and the accuracy of the steering wheels. The vehicle is expensive to most people, but the $60,000 price tag is rather inexpensive for top of the line sports cars.



Speed freaks take notice - the automobile having it all is Chevrolet's Corvette Z06. This particular automobile will do as much as 200 mph, and if you want to go faster than that, you will need to get a Ford GT which costs $150,000. The ZO6 features a 7-liter together with 505-hp engine, the same as the Le Mans C6R Corvette racecar. Some of the additional features are a dry sump V8, and front fenders crafted from carbon fibers.



You may find additional luxury sports cars if you would like more comparisons. The market place is loaded with top-of-the-line cars that are classified as luxury sports cars.