{"id":402379,"date":"2021-09-09T11:31:38","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T11:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/?p=402379"},"modified":"2024-12-16T21:51:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T21:51:17","slug":"the-holy-trinity-of-hypercars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/the-holy-trinity-of-hypercars\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look Back: The Holy Trinity Of Hypercars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p>If time travel were possible, going back to the middle of the first decade of the 2000\u2019s and mentioning the word \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/20-most-expensive-hypercars-on-sale-today\/\">hypercar<\/a>\u201d would have garnered you some very odd looks. 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There were a few cars that started the term rolling around in the mind, like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/2009-ssc-ultimate-aero\/\">SSC Ultimate Aero<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/the-iconic-bugatti-veyron\/\">Bugatti Veyron<\/a>, but it wasn\u2019t until 2013 that what are now considered the holy trinity of hypercars were released, and the motoring world was irrevocably changed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? 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