The Best Sports Cars

So when it comes to the best sports cars from Europe we’ve already covered the countries you are most familiar with- England, Germany and Italy. This is it, right? Wrong! There are so many more great sports cars from Europe that it will take several more posts to cover them all, however, this post will aim to introduce some of the others that come from places such as Spain, France, Sweden and the Netherlands. If there are any that I am missing, please feel free to comment and I will add more as needed.

As far as Spain goes, there are a few defunct brands and probably most associated with sports cars would be Hispano-Suiza, a pre-WWII luxury car manufacturer that made a few great models of its time, however, for today’s market the brand of Spain is Seat(pronounced- Say-At, not “seat”). Known for compact models the sports car market they cover is the sport compact as seen by their best selling model the Ibiza(picture c/o Lemon3 from wikimedia)

Next up is France, who has their own Big 3 of Peugot, Citroen and Renault. All of which also have their share of sport compact models as well as historically signicant roadsters that are collectible sports cars. The best known sports car from France, however, has to be Bugatti. A relative unknown in the US until the recent release of the all-world exotic known simply as the Veyron(and it’s many “special edition” variants). It is hard to ignore the predecessors such as the EB110, a limited production exotic whose “110″ commemorates the 110th anniversary of the late Ettore Bugatti, the founder of the company. The contributions Bugatti has made will make a great series of future articles as much like Ferrari, the roots of this company are in their racing vehicles that made their way to the road such as the legendary Type 57 Atalante coupe(shown below, image c/o Liftarn from wikimedia):

Moving on to today’s market we also have top sports cars from Sweden, not only the sporty models from Volvo and Saab, but also some sport compacts from Skoda. Then there is the current “fastest car in the world” with a Veyron shattered top speed of 259mph, the Koenigsegg CCX-R(image c/o Fpm from wikimedia):

This beauty is at its best when run on environmentally friendly E85 and puts out over 1000hp, expect more on this in future articles!

Last but not least is the newest contender, the Netherlands, while the Dutch are known for their chocolates, their flowers and their beer, it is not enough and companies such as Spyker with their Audi powered supercars, are made to be noticed, here is the C8 Aileron as shown at the 2009 Geneva Auto Show(image c/o Yo Ghurt from flikr)

As you can see the best sports cars from Europe come from more than just England, Germany and Italy. Hope you enjoyed this!