5 Incredible Cars That Are Even Faster Than Advertised – SlashGear

Ferrari and “incredible” go together like peanut butter and jelly, but seeing one on this list might be as shocking as finding out who Luke Skywalker’s father was for the first time.

When the F40 rolled out in 1987, Enzo Ferrari felt it was the world’s best car. The plan was to keep the production run at around 400, but 1,311 were eventually made. Of those, 213 came to the shores of the United States – despite having an MSRP of $399,150. 

The F40 is the first 200-mph production car, and it achieved that by using Kevlar and carbon compos­ites instead of steel. At the time, this was an innovative approach, one that brought the curb weight down to 2,425 pounds. Ferrari used lightweight materials to reduce chassis weight by 20% while tripling structural strength. It was a true technical achievement.”

Ferrari claimed the twin-turbocharged 2.9-liter V8 punched out 478 horsepower and 425 lb.-ft. of torque. Factory-provided numbers declared the F40 could go from zero to 62-mph in 4.1 seconds and zero to 124 in 12 seconds. They don’t run “quarter mile” stats in Italy, but they do run a “standing kilometer” (.62 of a mile), and it did that in 21 seconds at 168-mph.

Yet, even with those staggering numbers, they were still lying. Over the years, experts and journalists tested the F40 and concluded that it “easily” and consistently produced well north of 500 horsepower, making it all the more incredible.