SCR Supercar Hire Blog

Currently there is upto 40% off the hire of certain supercar’s from SCR Supercar Hire, so now is the perfect time to hire that dream car you’ve always wanted to drive. It may not be summer, but with some lovely crisp sunny days at the moment there is nothing better than taking a beauty like a Lamborghini Gallardo for a drive.

Or how about thinking towards Christmas and buying someone the present of their dreams and giving them the chance to drive a Ferrari or Porsche!

Lightweight versions of already quick cars have been a popular thing for manufacturers in recent years. The recipe seems simple enough: Take one quick car, remove everything unnecessary, tweak something in the engine, change the brakes and slap an extra 20k or so on the pricetag.

The performance gains from ripping out the carpets, electric windows and rear seats for example are not that huge – maybe a point or two a second in the dash to 60mph. However, over the length of a lap on a track the potential is much better, and nothing shows that off better than the new Ferrari F430 Scuderia. This lightweight F430 has lapped Ferrari’s own test track, Fiorano, in the same time as an Enzo! That’s a car more than twice the price, with 100 more horsepower and supposed to be the best and quickest car Ferrari can build.

Porsche’s GT3 and GT3RS do the same thing, and now Lamborghini have noticed the potential for these cars with the Gallardo Superleggera. Personally, these cars seem a bit of an excess to me. If you have the chance to own one of these special cars, call me boring but I’d quite like carpet, a stereo and electric windows. Given the straight choice between a “normal” supercar and a lightweight one, the minimal performance gains wouldn’t make me choose the lightweight one. So the fact that these versions actually cost more is mind boggling!

Still, if you choose to buy one of these, its more than likely not your first supercar purchase, and there are plenty of people out there with the money and the wish to take these cars on the track, which is where they excel. Given those circumstances I’d probably join them, but right now I’d just like to own one I can drive more often on the roads without the compromises!

In a survey by the company “superbrands”, Aston Martin has come out top of the pile, and is now officially the UK’s coolest brand! Ahead of other motoring brands such as Ducati and Ferrari, and even ahead of now ubiquitous brands such as Apple and Bang & Olufsen.

Ok, fanfare out of the way, I’m not really that sure how valuable this is – I haven’t seen how they gathered the data and things like this are always so subjective. I think the good thing it does show though is that an English car brand is right up there in the thoughts of the people. After all the issues we’ve suffered with MG/Rover, moving car production out of the company etc, we still make damn good cars, and that is something to be celebrated. And what better way to celebrate than by hiring an officially “cool” Aston Martin!

Actually, we probably knew that Aston Martin was cool before this survey, as the only survey that matters – the TopGear Cool Wall of course – already had a special section for the DB9 it was so cool! I can’t wait to see what they do with the DBS!

Hello and welcome to the first post on the SCR Supercar Hire blog!

We have started this blog as not only do we offer the best supercar hire deals, we are also fans of supercar’s themselves, and any news about them and we flock around the magazine or screen as we all try to get a look at the latest and greatest! So this blog is going to be an up to date view of the supercar world, from concept cars, newly released production cars or maybe just even the odd whisper or two. It is also the place to come to check for any special late deals that are available on Ferrari Hire, Lamborghini Hire, or Aston Martin Hire.