Why the Lykan Hypersport is a waste.

      I am sure that most of you have heard in recent car news about a new kid on the block in the hypercar world.  That new kid comes in the form of an ultra-rare package of the Lykan Hypersport.  Checking in at $3.5 million dollars, it definitely is the most expensive car out there, but do you really get that much car for what you pay for?  Well, look at it this way, in order to pay for this car, you have to have more money in your pocket than the average MLB baseball player earns in an entire year's salary (3.2 Million, thanks to the Huffington post).

      What causes such a high price tag you may ask? Let's look at some of the amenities provided by the Lykan (courtesy of W motors website).  When you buy this car, you get an "exclusive heads up display" and "customizeable digital performance cluster" that gives so many different sets of data you begin to get tunnel vision from just looking at a picture of it.  One of the most luxurious options you get to make in this car is you are able to select between diamonds, yellow diamonds, rubies, sapphires, and emeralds to put on titanium in your headlights.  Another exclusive amenity you get is a key made out of carbon fiber, titanium and more precious stones, and you also get to choose a watch that matches paint colors with your car.  The body of the car is entirely made up of carbon fiber for weight reduction, powered by a Porsche derived flat six engine with twin intercooled turbos paired with a six speed sequential transmission, or a seven speed dual clutch transmisssion. The max horsepower is 780 horsepower and 708 Lb/ft of torque and it weighs just over 3,000 pounds.  

      Now, the interior does feature lots of carbon fiber, just like many other cars in the same class as the Lykan, but after that, things go downhill.  There is nothing very spectacular about the rest of the interior.  In fact, it looks downright boring.  Instead of beautiful leather inserts or other unique additions like the car like in the Bugatti Veyron, or the Audi R8 (both cars that cost a significantly less amount of money might i add). The dash board, door paneling, headliner and the seats look like they could have come out of a Ford F-150 with an interior redesign.  Now, these are entirely customizable of course, but the options offered like gold wire stitching seem a little ridiculous.  

Now, let's crunch some numbers, the most proven and dominant 6 cylinder super car on the planet is undoubtedly the Nissan GT-R.  The best version of this car comes from a tuning shop called Alpha Performance.  Tuned from 530 BHP and 448 Lb/ft of torque to 1,840 BHP and 1,283 Lb/ft of torque in the Alpha 16 Package, this car is the easily the king.  With the cost of this car sitting at around $200,000 (possibly a little more) you could buy 17 1/2 Alpha 16 Nissan GT-R's for the same price.  That amounts to over 32,200 BHP and 22,452 Lb/ft of torque.  Compare that to the meager numbers of the Lykan at 780 horsepower and 708 Lb/ft of torque.  If you still want to choose the Lykan over that much power, then you truly are the type of person who should buy the Lykan. 

      The Lykan Hypersport was built to appeal to a very specific type of person.  That person is who has more money than brains and wants to be able to drive a car that costs more to purchase than  private airplane (which they probably also have purchased).