A decade’s progress Are yesteryear’s supercars now merely average?

Mark Rechtin

@markrechtin When Motor Trend started Best Driver’s Car back in 2007 (when it was known briefly as “Best Handling Car”), only one car in the field offered more than 500 horsepower—the 505-hp Chevrolet Corvette Z06, which we characterized as a “fire breather.” Lord only knows what our 2007 staff would have made of an SUV showing up with just as many ponies under the hood, as we had this year with the Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio. Or that, in just over a decade, Chevy engineers would create a ’Vette with an apocalyptic 755 hp. In fact, 500 horsepower has nearly become the cost of entry into Best Driver’s Car these days. In fact, it’s the average output of our field. Seven of our entrants this year blasted past that barrier, and we could…

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MotorTrend (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2018

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