Page 47 - Decadence

There’s a very small group of people who can or should I say will spend north of a million quid on a car, well on a modern super car to be more precise. Classics are a different story altogether, as we can see in our “Metal Guru” pages, that sort of money doesn’t go very far in the classic car world anymore, but the difference is you know you have an investment in your garage.
With the top marque Hypercars topping the €1m mark these days and passing through the auction houses at four times that there seems to be a market for a modern million plus Hypercar. Personally the Pagani story is the one that I consider as the start of the game. When the rst Zonda hit the streets it was positioned at just about the price of the top end Lamborghini and Ferrari offerings. Then there was the Koenigsegg and the Spiker, In fact the rst two have almost become benchs mark for this sector, whilst Spiker seems to re introduce the same model from the ashes of the company every couple of years, which pays testament more to the personality of Victor Muller that the actual car.
At the beginning of the year we were invited to test one such car in Finland on snow. The Zenvo has a ten year pedigree, but it’s not a name that springs to mind, other than the unfortunate Top Gear test, which was very unfair to what I found was an excellent piece of kit. So there’s fair few names in the million up motor market. Some 15 years ago the Gumpert Apollo made an appearance in the hyper market. Roland
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