Toyota FT-HS ................................................... Hybrid Sport Car

The hybrid version consists of an electric propelling system that could alone drive the car at low speeds. Apart from this, there are various other improved features inside the car. Even at high speeds, the car gives a smooth ride without any bumps. Running at a magnificent 187 hp, the technology provides an effortless transition from a pure electrical power to a conventional gasoline engine. Apart from boasting about the exquisite seat upholstery, Toyota Camry has ample room inside the car that is sufficient and spacious to fit an entire family. Toyota Camry's hybrid version has been introduced with an improved and attractive outer design.

Inspite of all these advantages, owning a Toyota Camry hybrid version might not have a significant burden on the pocket. Although, the cost of a Camry hybrid version is $3000 more than the conventional Camry, around $2,600 could be recovered in the form of state and federal tax credits and incentives if it is purchased early.

 

The real transformer 4 .................................................Koeninsegg ccX

Koenigsegg CCX it's been more than five years since our backsides were intimate with the carbon-fiber seat of the only supercar made in Sweden, the Koenigsegg CCX. That's probably long enough ago that you're saying out loud, "Koenigsegg CCX what??

 To bring you up to speed, here's a Koenigsegg CCX primer: Christian von Koenigsegg CCX was just 22 when he started a car company in 1994 with the hope of producing what many thought was a pipe dream — the world's fastest production sports car. In the '90s, the king of the exotics was the outrageous $815,000 McLaren F1, capable of 231 mph. How could a kid from Sweden one-up mighty McLaren?
In November 2001, we tested a prototype of his first car , dubbed the CC V-8. Koenigsegg CCX it had all the exotic-car trappings — carbon-fiber chassis, swiveling doors, 655 horsepower from a mid-mounted supercharged V-8, and an estimated $300,000 price. A slipping clutch soured our test drive, but the car showed potential, running to 60 mph in 4.1 seconds. A retest was in order, but we decided to wait until a promised U.S. version arrived stateside.

       While we waited, Koenigsegg CCX tinkered. In 2004, he introduced a new model — the CCR — that came with 151 more horsepower, 806 in all. This car achieved the unthinkable in 2005 — it outran the McLaren — getting up to 241 mph at the seven-mile Nardo test track in Italy. But Koenigsegg CCX glory would last just a year, as our own Csaba Csere drove a $1.25 million Bugatti Veyron 16.4 to 253 mph [C/D, November 2005].

Still, Koenigsegg CCX had made his point. Thirty-four of his cars have been sold abroad, and it is now available in the U.S. But we only had a chance for a brief drive of the 2006 CCX and not the hoped-for instrumented test session.                    

                                                                                           

Lamborghini Aventedor ....................................The monstre of speed

As car enthusiasts, we also love scale models. But while we’re ok with paying a few hundreds of dollar for a great model, this special scale model is a little too much for. What seems to be the most expensive scale model in the world is a 1/8 scale Lamborghini Aventador which will be sold at a New York auction this month, at a starting price of $4.72 million.

The creation belongs to Robert Guelpen and has already been presented at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September. Even though the model car is made of gold, platinum, carbon fiber and diamonds and probably countless hour of work were spent making this jewel, we think the price tag is a little too much for a model car. I mean, with this kind of money someone could buy ten real Aventador and definitely have more fun than staring at a model car.

According to Guelpen, which created another expensive model car in the past, a $2.93 million Bugatti Veyron, the price tag isn’t too high, considering only the materials used to build this model car cost more than $3 million: 700 diamonds are embedded in each seat, the suspension is made of massive gold, the wheels are made of platinum and the body is completely made of carbon fiber covered in gold.

If the model car is sold, Guelpen says he will donate almost $700,000 to charity. Also, if sold, this model car will enter the Guinness World Record book as the most expensive scale model car ever created. I repeat, if sold.