| The media is inundated with advertisements for | | | | their hideouts on the freeways. They are sleek and |
| automobiles. From radio, to magazines, newspapers | | | | sexy and you may see a man drooling over a |
| and television, one can hardly go more than a few | | | | magazine centerfold and think that it's a beautiful and |
| minutes without being subject to them. Some are | | | | scantily clad woman that has them hypnotized when in |
| geared to attract people whose main criterion for a | | | | fact it's the picture of one of these visual marvels. If |
| car is a sense of style. These cars offer leather seats | | | | given the choice of going on a date with a super |
| and a dashboard that looks more like it belongs on a | | | | model or driving an Aston Martin or a 1966 Corvette |
| space shuttle than a mere automobile. Other cars are | | | | Sting Ray, you can almost guarantee that the date |
| promoted to appeal to one's economical sense by | | | | with a supercar will win every time. |
| promoting the car's ability to get 27 miles to the gallon | | | | Supercars will usually only seat two people which in |
| with 10 year warrantees to keep repair costs at bay. | | | | itself makes them impractical for families, yet many |
| Oddly, one rarely sees commercials for those | | | | garages hold these coveted vehicles no matter how |
| supreme conveyances entitled supercars. So what | | | | many children that family may contain. The other cars |
| exactly is a supercar? | | | | that the family owns may be abandoned to the |
| A supercar is one that combines speed, handling and a | | | | driveway and subject to the elements but not the |
| unique design that sets them apart from conventional | | | | supercar. They are given a place of honor in the |
| cars. They are often more expensive than the | | | | garage and maybe even further sheltered by being |
| average home and they turn the heads of all who see | | | | cocooned in a car cover that will protect them from |
| them cruising down the ordinary streets and highways | | | | even the tiny dust particles that might mar their shiny |
| that seem unworthy of them. They belong more on | | | | surfaces. They are driven reverently and even though |
| the Autobahn, since they can easily reach and maintain | | | | they are designed for speed, they are often driven |
| speeds of over 160 miles an hour. Traveling most | | | | slowly through the neighborhood to give everyone a |
| roads and highways at such high speeds will usually | | | | chance to admire them. In the world of cars, the |
| net you a fortune in speeding tickets, still the thrill of | | | | supercar is considered royalty and only those who are |
| doing so in one of these fantastic creations is more | | | | extremely lucky or extremely rich have any hope of |
| than worth the risk of angering the policemen lurking in | | | | owning one of these chariots designed for the elite. |