By Sam Smith, Wired - For a small fraction of the car-buying public, price is irrelevant. These people simply see something they want and buy it, regardless of cost.You may picture this demographic buying Ferraris, or Bugattis, or even mammoth quantities of more prosaic stuff ("Fifteen BMW M3s, one for every Caribbean island I own? Hell yes!"). And they do. But some of them buy Corvettes. And when they buy Corvettes, they do not buy the cheap ones. Because that would be silly. And slow.
They buy this: the $113,500US, 638-hp Corvette ZR1.
Forget for a moment that the ZR1 costs more than any other new Corvette. In supercar terms, this is pennies; a Ferrari 458 is more than twice as expensive, a Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, over ten times as much. Why, you ask, would the one-percenters want something that plays at the bottom of the scale? Why bother with the cheap seats, even if that term is relative?
Simple: Supercars exist to provide insanity. And few mass-produced, warrantied machines are more insane than this.
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