Did you catch the explosion-and-jumping-car-packed Furious 7 trailer that debuted during the Super Bowl? If so, you saw all the usual vehicular suspects—a smattering of McLaren/Lambo/Ferrari/Bugatti hypercars, Dom's beloved Charger—but in the glass-smashiest scene, a mystery appears. What is this angular flying enigma?
It's a car you've likely never heard of before: The Lykan Hypersport, an extremely limited, hyper-expensive supercar. How limited? Just seven examples. How expensive? A mere $3.4 million.
Dubai-based W Motors, the company that builds the Lykan, calls itself the first Arab supercar company. Founded by Lebanese-born Ralph Debbas, the W is dedicated to the kind of super-ultimate luxury that only folks with oil-sheik money can dream of.
The car itself is a mid-rear engine layout powered by a 3.8-liter twin-turbo flat-six sourced from Porsche tuner RUF. The 770 hp and 708 ft.-lb. of torque pulse through a six-speed sequential or seven-speed PDK gearbox to the rear wheels. W Motors says the whole setup's good for 0-62 mph (0-100 km/h) in just 2.8 seconds, and that it'll get up to 24 mpg, saving you from becoming an OPEC top customer.
Inside is where things get really nutzo. As in, seats-stitched-with-gold-thread nutzo. And claimed-holographic-center-display-that-may-not-actually-exist nutzo.
And that's just a part of it. We're talking a 24-hour concierge service offering on-call engineers and "flying doctors" to cater to the needs of yourself or your car, anywhere in the world.
"At a moment's notice your personal concierge can secure you access to an exclusive party, arrange an amazing event on your behalf, make sure you have a car ready for you when you finish your meeting," W Motors' website boasts. "We pride ourselves on discretion, access and exclusivity [. . .] including insider and expert information to get you what you want whenever and wherever you want it.
How richly vague!
So why does Dom Toretto choose this exceedingly rare and pricey machine to smash through not one, but two skyscrapers in the Furious 7 trailer? Take a closer look at those buildings. It sure looks like Dom's flight of destruction occurs at the Etihad Towers, a luxury skyscraper complex in Abu Dhabi. With only seven of these supercars in existence, you're more likely to find them in the United Arab Emirates than, say, in Southern California. But there's another clue.
Deep down on the Lykan Hypersport's spec sheet is a feature that at first seems so totally outlandish, you'd be excused for dismissing it as pure hyperwealth tomfoolery: "THE LYKAN COMES WITH DIAMOND INCRUSTED LED LIGHTS FOR A LAVISH AND LUXURIOUS FINISH." Yes, at the front of your 245 mph beast is a pair of headlights bedazzled with freaking diamond—420 of them, totaling15 carats, mounted on a titanium accent piece.
Wretched more-is-more excess? Nah. That's for smashing through plate-glass windows 70 stories in the air to escape Jason Statham's grenade launcher.
Originally published at Road & Track.
Bob Sorokanich previously served as deputy editor of Road & Track Magazine. He is based in New York City.
