Damn! I like these arguments! Just as a curiosity, what's the age of both?
The F40 and the 959 are just different approaches of each marque's ultimeta road car at the time. While Ferrari, in the Italian way, made a raw, back-breaking, head-twisting, chest-splitting racing-breed pure machine, Porsche, in their German way, made a fast, all-round, comfortable, sophisticated and
low-profile car (maybe that's why the F40 is so much more sought-after than the 959; the latter is too 911-looking. The F40 resembles nothing else). And the funny is, although the F40 was built from an aborted Group B racing project, it was always a "strictly road-going car". On the other hand, the 959 was presented since day 1 as a racing car (the original 959 prototype was presented as
Gruppe B...) but refined for road use.
Anyway, concerning this wave of attacks ant counterattacks, I must say I'm more with LeonOfTheDead. Since when can anyone say the Veyron isn't a
supercar (whatever that means) but just a GT car? An F40 is a supercar but not the Veyron, considering the Veyron simply obliterates the F40 in, well, everything!? And the SSC is a supercar too? I've talked to a guy who's a friend if an Arabian guy who owns a SSC and he says you just can't make corners with it because the downforce is so minimal (reduced drag to improve top speed) and its spiky behaviour due to the twin turbos make it almost impossible to deliver power through the rear wheels!
In
MY book (I'll bold it to prevent LionOfTheDead to nuke me...
), a supercar is an automobile which can achieve extraordinary performance and deliver the maximum driving pleasure. I'm not narrowing it down to stripped-out road-legal racing cars nor drifters/dragsters... Who can say a BMW M5 isn't a supercar! Just watch Tiff Niedel's drive on the M5... Anyway, supercar is just a type of sportscar. Like an elite among sportscars.
A thing everyone is forgeting is that the sole purpouse of producing cars is for people to buy them. If they don't have the attributes the market demands, they will be disregarded (branding can be considered an attribute, BTW...). That's why Pagani works so well! It's possibly one of the most exhilirating, joyful, intoxicating car there ever was and still it's comfy and the interior exhales class, quality and refinement. ANd that works for me. And for almost everyone. But then again, cars like the Zonda or the Veyron aren't cars. They're pieces of art!