The best hypercars - rated and ranked

Gordon Murray, designer of the celebrated 1992 McLaren F1, has brought the world his own take on a modern successor to that masterpiece – and the GMA T50 is a hypercar the car-loving world may be preoccupied with for several reasons.

It shuns electric motors and uses instead a naturally aspirated 4.0-litre V12 engine that revs beyond 12,000rpm and produces 650bhp.

It follows the principles that made the F1 so special: rigorous lightweight design, advanced engineering and compactness.

Like the F1, it has a central driving position and a three-seat cabin.

And lastly, it uses ‘fan car' active aerodynamics like no other production car there has ever been. 

The Mercedes-AMG One is a hardcore yet elegant coupé with a genuine Formula 1 powertrain: a 1.6-litre V6 and four electric motors combining for a total output of 1049bhp. 

Engineered in part in the UK by powertrain specialists from the Mercedes F1 team, it's the fastest Mercedes production car ever, overtaking the 214mph Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR that went on sale 25 years ago. 

It follows the famous Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, which was also built in the UK, by McLaren in Woking, between 2003 and 2009. 

Power stands at 566bhp at 9000rpm - 2000rpm shy of the redline - while top speed stands at 219mph. It will hit 0-62mph in 2.9sec.

Its technology is really rather staggering. Two of its motors are positioned between the turbocharger and the electric compressor, while the other two are integrated into the front axle.

Want one? Unfortunately, all 275 cars have been sold for £2.2 million apiece. 

The Bugatti Tourbillon arrived some 20 years after the Veyron, the car that well and truly changed the game for hypercars. 

On paper, some of the £3.2 million Tourbillon's figures are almost unbelievable. Powered by a plug-in hybrid system centred on a behemoth 8.3-litre V16, total output stands at 1775bhp. Bugatti claims a staggering 0-62mph sprint of 2.0sec and a preliminary top speed of 267mph. Oh, and it will do 0-124mph faster than the Volkswagen Golf GTI can reach 62mph. 

Because it's a PHEV with a 25kWh battery, it can also travel up to 37 miles on electric power alone.

Just 250 will be made. 

The McLaren W1 is a record breaker for the Woking-based firm. It's McLaren's fastest and most powerful model yet.

It employs a sublime-sounding engine and smart aerodynamics technology, along with a forensic approach to weight-saving, meaning it tips the scales at just 1399kg. 

Beneath the metal sits a 4.0-litre twin-turbocharged V8 engine with hybrid technology, engineered in-house from the ground up. Alone, it produces 915bhp.

It also uses a 342bhp electric motor using technology derived from Formula E race cars. Total power stands at 1258bhp and it can hit 0-62mph in 2.7sec. 

The LaFerrari is no more, but Ferrari has plugged the gap with the new F80 hypercar. 

Like the W1 is for McLaren, the F80 is Ferrari's most powerful road car yet, powered by a hybridised twin-turbocharged V6 engine capable of revving up to 9200rpm. 

While the engine takes parts from the Italian firm's 499P Le Mans race car to produce 888bhp on its own, two electric motors work together to pump out an additional 280bhp, lifting total output to 1184bhp. 

Naturally, the F80 is incredibly fast. It launches from 0-62mph in 2.15sec and from 0-124mph in 5.75sec. Whisper it, but that's faster than the Mercedes-AMG One and McLaren W1.

On paper, the Pagani Utopia has all the hallmarks of an all-time great. 

It's powered by a 6.0-litre naturally aspirated V12 engine sourced from Mercedes-AMG, pumping out 864bhp and 809lb ft, which is 58bhp more than the most powerful variant of its predecessor, the Huayra. 

All that power is managed by a seven-speed manual gearbox. All that and it weighs just 1280kg - only 100kg or so more than the Mazda MX-5.

Its interior is typically glamorous, with quality analogue dials, milled switches and ergonomics, plus a modern steering wheel milled from one solid aluminium block. 

This Italian coupé is a dream car for many, but as with all of the best hypercars, there's a catch: Like all Paganis, it's ultra-exclusive. Just 99 examples will be built, and all of them have already been sold. But there are still convertible and track-only variants to come...

The crowning achievement of Croatia's young Rimac empire is the Nevera, which is the follow-up to the Concept One and the production version of the C_Two concept.

The former arguably kick-started the electric hypercar trend with its 1073bhp output and £670,000 asking price when it debuted in 2017.

Only 150 examples of the Nevera will be made, and its appeal has only been enhanced by many by its recent record-breaking EV top-speed run, when it topped 256mph.

The car is built around a composite tub, and there's an electric motor for each wheel, with independent single-speed gearboxes at the front and two two-speed dual-clutch gearboxes for the back axle.

All this means the Nevera boasts 1888bhp and a mountainous 1696lb ft, which allows it to hit 0-62mph in just 1.95sec with a top speed of 258bhp. Its 120kWh battery also allows for up to 340 miles of range. 

If you're after something that feels slightly more upmarket, the Pininfarina Battista uses a rolling chassis co-developed with Rimac and is the Nevera's more luxurious cousin. 

If you were in any doubt about which way the high-performance wind was blowing, then the appearance of two EVs in our hypercar top 10 should leave you in no doubt.

We love high-revving, noisy, fast and dramatic combustion-engined machines, but the appeal of instant, walloping, vectored-per-corner torque isn’t hard to deny - and the Lotus Evija serves that up in spades.

So far we've driven the Norfolk firm’s fast flagship only in prototype form around Lotus's own test track at Hethel, but the initial impressions were promising.

Electric or not, this car's key vital statistics leave nothing to chance. Its 70kWh battery and a quartet of electric motors make it weigh some 1700kg, but it also develops some 2000 metric horsepower at peak, runs on Pirelli P-Zero Trofeo R tyres and is claimed to be capable of 0-186mph in just 9sec.

Our prototype drive revealed a car that struggles to feel dramatic when launching from low speeds but one that piles on speed beyond three-figures with an unrelenting potency and whose handling feels as balanced and poised as you would expect of a Lotus, despite its four-wheel-drive layout.