Supercar: Lamborghini Aventador; Bugatti Veyron; McLaren MP4-12C; Pagani Huayra; Ferrari 458 Italia; et al, et al.
Now we have what claims to be India's first supercar, the Avanti by DC Design, just unveiled at the Auto Expo motor show.
No denying that it looks the aggressive part, but instead of the twin-turbocharged V8 or V12 you'd expect to find under its bonnet, the Avanti employs a mid-mounted, low-revving 197kW/366Nm version of Ford's new EcoBoost turbopetrol engine that will also be found in the new Focus ST.
Which would be fine if the car only weighed 500kg, but the Avanti tips the scales at 1560kg and as a result the best it can claim for a zero to 100km/h sprint time is "under seven seconds."
Which basically means you're going to struggle to throw off a modern hot hatchback (let alone a supercar) at the drags. 'Supercar' is a better word for this.
Yet before we get too nasty, consider that this new two-seater has a feature that no other supercar could ever dream of - a semi-affordable price tag. DC Design is pricing it at just 30 lakh rupees, which is about R460 000 at today's exchange rate.
In reality, then, this car's biggest flaw is the fact that its maker thinks it's a supercar - even the 298kW Honda V6-powered version that's expected to follow, won't warrant that title.
Yet if we view it as an affordable sports car then suddenly it seems like a very impressive piece of engineering, complete with an aluminium body and strong space frame chassis "using a mix of square, rectangular and round sections to get the best strength and rigidity across the dynamic spectrum."
On the suspension front, the rear-wheel drive Avanti has unequal length wishbones at all corners working together with coil over shock absorbers.
Far from just a once-off fantasy car, DC Design plans to build at least 150 of these a year starting from 2013 and the company eventually hopes to build 1000 of them every year.