As near as I can tell Top Ten lists exist primarily to start arguments.

The latest installment/evidence for this is an article entitled “Ten sexy cars to turn men’s heads”, from the British Eve Cars mag.

Essentially, it’s a list of cars for women so they can impress men.

Here’s the list:

1. Mercedes 300SL Roadster
2. Porsche 911
3. Mitsubishi Evo
4. Land Rover Defender
5. Subaru Impreza
6. Rolls-Royce Phantom
7. Range Rover Sport
8. Fiat 500
9. VW Golf R32
10. Caterham

Eve Cars said they interviewed “hundreds of men”. OK, I won’t go into debatable points of what constitutes a “man” for ladies at Eve Cars (or hell, what even counts as a “man” in England), but honestly, you roll up next to me in #s 4, 6 or 7, you won’t be turning my head, ladies, you’d probably be turning my stomach.

Now, if you pull in a Caterham …

If you like the kind of sports cars you have been seeing, then you might want to consider buying one of your own. There’s nothing like owning your own performance sports car and they’re more accessible than you might think. With these 5 easy steps for buying a sports car, you can be closer than ever to buying your dream sports car.

The first step is to come up with a budget for your sports car. You want to come up with a realistic look at how much per month you could afford to pay on payments for your dream sports car. $200 a month, $500 a month, $600 a month, whatever figure is, make it realistic and write it down. A general rule of thumb for new cars is that every $100 in monthly payments gets you $5,000 worth of car.

You would be surprised at the sports cars available that you can actually afford. For example, I recently saw a 1999 Porsche Boxster available for sale for less than $15,000. That means you could easily own a Porsche for less than $300 per month! Sure it’s no 911 Turbo, but it’s still a nice Porsche. You can also own a mid to late 90’s Nissan 300ZX TT, a Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4 (Twin-Turbo,) or a Mazda RX-7 TT for less than $15,000 as well, and all of those are very fast cars. Have a little more money? Try an early model Acura NSX or Dodge Viper for mid-$30K’s. Yes, they’re out there. Continue Reading…

Back in March I wrote a post listing the 10 Fastest Cars in the World. It was hugely popular (and still is,) but I’ve received so many comments telling me that the list isn’t accurate anymore. I plan to do another comprehensive post on this in the future, but for now here is a quick update on the fastest production cars in the world, ranked by top speed. On the last post, I also received a lot of comments about cars such as the Lingenfelter Corvette being faster. Just like the last list, this is only for production cars:

SSC Ultimate Aero

Top Speed: 256 mph

Horsepower: 1183

Torque: 1094lbs

On September 13th, 2007, the SSC Ultimate Aero broke the official top speed world record, traveling 256.18 mph down a closed section of a Washington State highway. Impressive, considering the Ultimate Aero’s engine is only a twin-turbo V8 - half the size and turbo count of the Veyron below. Continue Reading…

VCars brings up a list of the top 10 fastest production cars in the world, ranked by top speed. I’ll go over the list briefly, but be sure to visit VCars’ list for more info and pictures. All the cars you would expect are on the list, ranked from fastest to slowest (though calling any of these cars slow is blasphemy.) We start the list with the king of fast.

Update: I’d like to clarify that this list only includes production cars. I’ve had a lot of comments mentioning the Lingenfelter Corvette, etc being faster, but that ultra-fast Vette is not in production. I’d also like to clear up that this list was created on March 30th, 2007. The SSC Ultimate Aero has since broken the record as the fastest production car in the world, and I plan to address this in my next list. Be sure to subscribe to the AutomoBlog RSS Feed to stay up-to-date.

Bugatti Veyron

Top Speed: 252.2 mph

1001 Horsepower

No surprises here, the fastest and most powerful production car ever makes the top of the list. I wonder when Koenigsegg will decide to take the #1 position and beef up the CCX.

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Ferrari…Lamborghini…Aston Martin? These are all child’s play when you put them next to a hyper-car; a different breed of supercar exclusively for the ultra-rich, usually costing over $350,000 or so. Ferrari makes one (the Enzo) and so does Porsche (Carrera GT,) but usually they are from car makers with names you don’t hear in normal conversation. Almost always made in very limited editions, you cannot turn to your car dealers or normal car review websites for information regarding these fantastic machines.

So for those who are familiar with these cars, how do you keep up on the news regarding them? Well, you turn here of course, at AutomoBlog.net Anyway, what’s the news on these cars? Read on…

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