$15,000,000 USD is what it costs to show your status apparently, as a charity auction for Dubai license plate ‘P7’ ended over the weekend setting a new world record.
Dubai-based W Motors has unveiled footage of the new Lykan HyperSport getting a shakedown run at the Dubai Autodrome. Sporting a carbon fiber body and a biturbocharged flat-six churning out 750 horsepower, the Lykan brings some serious performance to the table with a 0-62mph sprint of 2.8 seconds and a top speed of 240mph.
Sebastian Vettel was fined €25,000 when he celebrated his and his team’s championship titles with some donuts after the Indian Grand Prix. No big deal, really, in the big picture. The celebrations continue, though, with these donuts on top of a 670-foot-high helipad above Dubai.
Powered by a 750-horsepower biturbocharged flat-six, the W Motors Lykan is inspired by werewolves, but it does a pretty good impression of one of Darth Vader’s Storm Troopers. It can sprint to 62 miles per hour in just 2.8 seconds before climbing to its top speed of 240 mph, and boasts a price tag of $3.4 million.
We’ve been aching to see the Nissan Juke-R, Godzilla’s maniacal, crossover cousin in action for quite a while, and now that footage has arrived. This is the Juke-R, battling a Ferrari 458 Italia, a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, and a Lamborghini Gallardo on the streets of Dubai.
In this issue of Winding Road, we get inside Cadillac’s newest beast, the 556-horsepower CTS-V Coupe, and see if it’s as exhilarating to drive as it is to behold.