Business Week has a great photo gallery of sexy supercars ranging from the affordable to the “keep dreaming” category. (Some but not all of these are in the list of most expensive cars available in the U.S.) The pic above is of the Tesla Roadster, which comes in at a relatively affordable $98,950. While it does zero-to-60 in only 4 seconds, it only has a top speed of 125 mph.

The rest of the cars vary widely in price, but many of them seem near dead ringers of classic sports cars of the past. When I look at the gallery, I see the E-type roadster, various porsche models, and hybrids of yet more sports cars gone by.

Speaking of supercars, Warner Bros’ Mach 5 (from the upcoming movie Speed Racer) is on display at the Detroit Auto Show starting today (Jan 13) through Thursday (Jan 17).

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Tata is one of those companies that makes just about everything. Like their counterpart Honda from Japan, India’s Tata has their hand in a lot of different industries for a long time. Now their Tata Motors division has set their sights on building the world’s cheapest car.

It’s planning to price the car at Rs 1-Lakh (100,000 Indian Rupees, or just about US$3,000, give or take a bit.) It’ll be tough competition, but they hope to displace purchases in India of the more expensive “budget” Maruti 800 (made by a Japanese-owned branch of Suzuki).

While there are no doubt many families in India that would appreciate the availability of an affordable car, gasoline has been expensive for decades, and traffic is already insane in many urban centers, where cars, trucks, rickshaws, scooters all vie for position, often having to dodge clusters of lounging cows. An even cheaper car might not actually be a good idea. On the other hand, having lost several close relatives due to motorcycle and scooter accidents, I’m of two minds about this.

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The Maserati Quattroporte is quite simply a fantastic car on its own. To mess with it under normal circumstances would be a sacrilege. When the German tuner Novitec do anything, the last that can be said about their work is that they have messed around with the car.

So they have left the body alone. What have they done? Changed the wheels! The wheels have been replaced by some nice twenty inch rims covered with Pirelli P Zero’s 285/30 on the rear and 245/35 on the front. The main piece of work is in the engine department. Novitec has optimized the 4.2-liter V8’s ECU and raised cut-off speed to 7.800 rpm slightly lifting power from 400Hp @ 7.000 rpm to 413Hp @ 7.100 rpm, and maximum torque from 451Nm @ 4.500 rpm to 468Nm @ 4.650 rpm. To finish it off, a new exhaust system has been added.

To finish off the Maserati, tuners have changed the suspension to a dual adjustable system with stainless steel shock absorbers. Unfortunately, there are no figures as to what exactly these adjustments will be doing for the car, but the increase in power, suspension change, new wheels and tires, means only one thing: more power equals more speed. Lets face it, the Novitec Maserati Quattroporte is not going to be going slower!

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