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What Hypercars Can Teach Us About Happiness, And It’s Not What You Think
There is a class of automobiles called Hypercars.
Hypercars are ultra-exotic, massively powerful, and obscenely fast.
Oh, and they’re ridiculously expensive. Think 7-figures.
They carry some familiar names, and so not so familiar names:
Ferrari. McLaren. Koenigsegg. SSC. Bugatti.
To name a few.
For the past several years, there’s been a battle waging in the hypercar community.
It’s a battle for the bragging rights to the title “Fastest Car in The World.”
Top speed, flat out, who’s the fastest?
As per The Manual, the current king of the mountain is the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+.
The final recorded number? 304.773 miles per hour, or 490.484 in kmh.
For context, that’s covering 450 feet in one second; for more context, a professional football field is 360 feet long.
The Bugatti will travel approximately a third of a mile in the time it takes you to read this sentence.
There’s something interesting to me regarding the engineering behind this battle to the top and how it correlates to climbing the ladder of financial…