4 Most Uselessly Fast Sports Cars Ever Made!

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4 Most Uselessly Fast Sports Cars Ever Made! Some cars are built to go fast, but a few take speed to a level that makes no real sense in the real world. We look at four of the most uselessly fast sports cars ever made. These machines were powerful, expensive, and packed with crazy engineering, but almost nobody could actually use their full speed. They were too rare, too dangerous, or simply too far ahead of their time. Each one proves that just because something can go fast, doesn’t mean it should. First is the 1959 Maserati 5000 GT, a car built because the Shah of Persia wanted something even more exclusive than a normal luxury car. Maserati stuffed a racing engine into a grand tourer and the result was a 170-plus mph monster that cost as much as a Rolls-Royce but wasn’t nearly as reliable. Only 34 were ever made, and each one was different, making repairs a nightmare. Next is the Zender Fact 4 Biturbo, a German supercar prototype from 1989 that never made it to production. It had a carbon-fiber chassis years before the technology became common and a twin-turbo V8 that could push it to 195 mph. But the company ran out of money, so the car stayed a one-off prototype. Its biggest achievement was becoming a Hot Wheels toy instead of a real production car. The third car, the Bizzarrini 5300 GT Strada, was basically a Le Mans race car you could drive on the street—if you could deal with the heat, noise, and terrible comfort. It was fast enough to beat Ferraris in the 1960s, but driving it in normal traffic was miserable. It proved that speed is useless if the driver feels like they are sitting in a baking oven. Finally, there is the 1987 RUF CTR “Yellowbird,” the fastest production car of its time at 211 mph. It looked like a normal Porsche 911, but it had almost 500 horsepower and no electronic safety systems. In the wrong hands, it was a spinning, tire-smoking death trap. Even pros had to fight to control it. ____ We do not own the footages/images compiled in this video. It belongs to individual creators or organizations that deserve respect. By creatively transforming the footages from other videos, this work qualifies as fair use and complies with U.S. copyright law without causing any harm to the original work's market value. COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER: Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. _____