Hey, the marketing terms got longer too! It's now called "Super Series" as well

But they added 1.64 inches!

Also, McLaren's "Sports Series", "Super Series" and "Ultimate Series" subdesignations within designations is infuriating. I'm beginning to think that McLaren is a marketing company that also builds cars.

When will they show us the version that has a longer tail?

DB10 sounds like "D-beaten"; maybe this is how they gloss over that designation and skip to DB11 for the production version.

yes

For me, the V8 Ferraris have (somehow) been a barometer of the upper limit of progress. And I remember being pretty shocked at the 100 HP jump from the 360 to F430, and then additional 70 HP jump to 458. So maybe 2000-2010.

Looks like the Daytona Prototype of 737s

If they have engines supplied from Mercedes-Benz, (which has been rumored and announced yet suspiciously quiet for years and years) then they'll probably be getting turbocharged V8s.

They're already planned to go to turbocharged fours

Yes! Most of the luxury carmakers have moved on and evolved them into the headlights smartly (I especially like Porsche's square grid of 4 LEDs in the headlight) but the slower-to-react carmakers are caught out, and look silly now.

At least all the accessories hide the hideous 'Wheel Wedge' shit ahead of the rear wheels. The DW12 is a terrible-looking racecar. You have to try to design a racing car that look terrible, yet the American series (Nascar, Mindycar, Grand Sham) have all succeeded admirably in the past decade.

Those stuck-on LEDs up front really scream '2011,' but I guess that puts it in good company with the Huayra

There used to be a sense of mystery to a Bentley or Rolls. If they crank out 15,000 Continentals, you lose the exclusivity, so you lose everything. If it's not exclusive, it's just a really expensive car.

Title of the year

The GT500 had 662 hp 2 years earlier, and people didn't lose their shit on anything close to this scale. I guess I don't see what the difference is? (I'm not a Mustang fanboy, I really just don't see the why 707 is seen as monumentally more than 662)

It's not really in the scope of this article, which offers tons of practical logic and advice, but here's what bugs me about the Hellcat hype: more significant stories are probably being overlooked. My go-to example is that the underpinnings of, say, the Cadillac CTS are far more impressive than making a giant motor…

Great post, Tom

Honesly this is my fav recurring segment

Absolutely, I do. I'm sure some amount of people buying Escalades can't afford them. If gas goes from $2.50 a gallon to double that, and more, which it most certainly will, there will be some regret going around.