Do you love your car? The smell, the feel, the sight lines, the growl, the purr, the look? What is it that appeals? Do you covet your neighbor’s car? Sporting figures sure love their cars. Think of a luxury car, a statement car, a unique vehicle and you can bet that a sporting figure you know owns that car. Who in the soccer World Cup owns a Mercedes SLR McLaren Roadster? How about an Audi RS6 Avant and a Bentley Continental GT? Who owns an Aston Martin Vanquish?
The Mercedes SLR McLaren Roadster at a base price of nearly $800,000 has a torque of 580 foot pounds at 3250 to 5000 rpms and a maximum horsepower of 617hp. This converts into a 0-60 miles per hour measure of 3.1 seconds (with the right driver). What soccer star owns this car? Chelsea’s seventh highest scorer of all time and center forward for the Ivory Coast, Didier Drogba.
The Audi RS6 Avant is a five door, five passenger wagon with a twist. A 580 horsepower, 479 foot pound all wheel drive twist. This wagon does 0-60 in 4.6 seconds and has higher horsepower than the BMW M5, Cadillac CTS-V and the Jaguar XFR and you can fit four friends and groceries in the back. What soccer star owns this $160,000 wolf in wagon cloaking? Superstar Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal and Real-Madrid owns one. As it happens, he also owns a Bentley Continental GT. This car has a unique configuration of four banks of three cylinders. Think about it. The engine is structured as a ‘W’. This ultimate luxury vehicle has a top speed just under 200 miles per hour with a 552 horsepower engine putting out 479 foot pound of torque at a very low rpm rate of 1600. Do 0-60 in luxury, style and 4.6 seconds.
Three guesses who in the soccer world owns the Aston Martin Vanquish (and the first two don’t count). English team member and Manchester United star striker Wayne Rooney of course. This was the flagship of the Aston Martin line. The Bond, Die Another Day car but you can’t buy a new one now. Like the English team, they were vanquished. They stopped production in 2007. The Vanquish S V12 coupe, equipped with a 521 horsepower engine and 425 foot pounds of torque is good for 0-60 miles per hour in 4.0 seconds.
So do you covet your favourite sports star’s car? I know I do.
