![]() Ok, this isn’t a supercar per se, but it did mark the beginning of Ferrari’s recent rise to making awesome cars again. Power: 4 rpm / Torque: 275 lb/ft 4750 rpm / Engine: 3.6L naturally aspirated V8 / Produced: 1995–1999/ Units sold: 11,273 produced/ Top Speed: 183 mph (Berlinetta) / Acceleration (0-60 mph): 4.7 seconds/ Base Price: Berlinetta US$130,000 / £78,000 (at launch) We discussed whether to rank the cars versus just have an unranked list and realized it was way more fun to have people argue about rankings than not. Read on for our ranked list of the greatest supercars of the nineties. We made a small change on May 14th, adding the Ferrari 355 due to lots of feedback from readers.Īuthor note: This initial article was written by JACK MATTHEWS in May 2017 and was updated by Nick Dellis (with help from car nut Kenny Herman) in May 6th 2019. If it was initially built in the 1980s but was substantially updated or had a sub-model in the 1990s then it could make the 1990s list (aka Ferrari F512 M). If the car had first been manufactured in the 1980s and was carried over into the 1990s largely unchanged then it belongs in the 1990s (aka Ferrari F40). Please read on for our take on the greatest 1990s supercars.Ĭriteria note: We focused on the first year of manufacture as our criteria for a car making it into the decade. In terms of awesome supercars, the 1990s were the golden age. These included the Porsche GT1, Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR and the insane Dauer 962 LM. The FIA GT1 class therefore produced some of the best race cars of the mid-1990s and (thanks to those loosely interpreted homologation requirements), some of the wildest street cars too. Racing homologation rules (stipulating that road-going versions of cars had to be manufactured for homologation) inspired automakers to produce these machines. Carmakers had fully embraced the “win on Sunday, sell on Monday” mantra in the early 1990s and channeled vast amounts of money into trying to find racing glory. ![]() In fact, five of the cars on our top supercars of the ‘90s list were expressly built to race and are known as homologation specials. On our list of the best 20 cars, no less than six cars raced. Speaking of everyday Supercar, the 1990s saw the 911 Turbo genuinely scare the top players with more than 400 horsepower, all wheel drive and astonishing performance in a daily driver. It forced all the sports car makers to get better and ushered us all into the world of the everyday supercar. Here was a major manufacturer known for small compact Honda Civic cars who created a supercar that was easy to drive, was fast and agile and didn’t break down. It came along in the 1990s and shook up Lamborghini, Ferrari and Porsche. It was like no other supercar before it (or like any other since), a car that redefined what it meant to be a supercar.Īt the other end of the spectrum was the Honda NSX. It was Gordon Murray, the former F1 engineer and his obsession with weight savings and attention to detail that redefined what a supercar could be. The F1 did not just beat the other supercars at the time, it blew them away so convincingly that it wasn’t until the Bugatti Veyron came along more than a decade later that its acceleration and top speed records were beaten. McLaren came along in the mid-90s with the ultimate supercar, the McLaren F1. It is impossible to talk about the 1990s supercar era and not mention the impact of the mighty McLaren F1. After the extraordinary supercars of the eighties, many supercar manufacturers entering the nineties asked “how on earth do we follow that?” As the 1990s started, many pundits wondered however whether we had already reached peak car. Supercars like the Lamborghini Countach, Porsche 959 and Ferrari F40 had collectively wowed car fans the world over in the late 1980s and with Wall Street humming and the global economy in good shape, the appetite for exotic cars only grew going into the early 1990s. The high performance supercar market went from niche to mainstream in the 1980s. Some of the defining features of the 1990s supercar era includes the amazing McLaren F1 and the revelation that was the Honda NSX as well as the spirit of competition amongst top manufacturers in prototype racing that created some awesome limited run homologation specials for the road. In this post we curate the best supercars from the 1990s, an era stacked with exotic masterpieces. ![]() This is our first in a series of posts about the awesome cars of the 1990s.
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