THANKS, WORLDWIDE SUPER-RICH, for buying enough wildly impractical cars to support their continued manufacture. Below, we've mapped the global distribution of the 7673 Bugatti, Ferrari, Lamborghini, and McLaren cars sold in 2011 with help from the automotive-data specialists at Polk.
VAPORWARE
THE LONG SHOTS Successful small-timers such as Koenigsegg and Pagani are fueling an unprecedented explosion of never-gonna-happen automotive vaporware. Here we've corralled a selection of the most outlandish proposals, each with its country of origin, claimed engine and output, expected price, and—for our friends in the Vegas odds-making business—our ranking (from 0 to 5) of its likelihood of coming to fruition. Place your bets!
Arrinera Hussarya, Poland 6.2-liter V-8, 650 hp, $160,000 Probability
Rimac Concept_One, Croatia four electric motors, 1088 hp, $1,300,000 Probability…