Last October, I grumbled in our pages about the new crop of multimillion-dollar hypercars. Rather than being built around great driver experience, elegant design, or technological innovation, the Mercedes AMG Project One and Aston Martin Valkyrie were attempts to make race cars for the road in the most literal definition.

The Valkyrie is basically an LMP1 car with license plates, and the AMG One runs a modified Formula 1 engine. And both are basically pointless. They were nightmares to develop, taking far more time and money than anticipated, and the results have been fundamentally flawed.