Supercars: your most-Googled questions, answered
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Unfair question. Supercars don't depreciate badly. They depreciate spectacularly well, with jaw dropping pace. A truly top tier supercar can blast from £250k to £80k in the time it takes its Lotto winning new owner to dent all four corners while driving it off the forecourt. When were supercars invented?
In 1946, when Corporal Peter Supercar accidentally dropped a Crusader tank onto his Austin 10. Sadly Cpl Supercar never profited from his creation, having failed to patent it, and also having been thoroughly squashed by the Crusader tank.
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Depends what kind of doctor. If it's a junior doctor in a British A&E department, then no. But if it's, say, Dr Oetker, the famed German food scientist behind the multibillion euro international cake company, then yes. Apart from the fact he died 100 years ago. Can dentists afford supercars?
Really hung up on the 'which professions can afford supercars' thing, huh? We're guessing the reason you're asking this is because... your dentist recently started driving a supercar? In which case, time to ditch your dentist. That dude is charging too much for your scale 'n' polish. You might like
OK, bored of these ones now. Do supercar drivers get paid?
Yes. In special negative money, because they're big special important people.
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Because their custodian helmets won't fit under the low roofline. Are supercars difficult to drive fast?
Yes. Not because modern supercars are twitchy at the limit, but because generally speaking they're locked in humidity controlled garages in the vain hope that they won't depreciate catastrophically. Why do supercars have low ground clearance?
It's popularly believed supercars sit close to the ground in order to lower their centre of gravity and also generate downforce. This is not the reason. It's because low ground clearance forces supercars to slow for urban speed bumps, thus allowing the driver to accelerate obnoxiously thereafter, thus alerting everyone within a 500 metre radius that there's a big special important person in the area.
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