The tail lights make me say that it's the Gumpert Apollo Sport from Germany.

My 19-year-old son thinks it's a Koenigsegg CCR.

Koenigsegg CCX

doh! one minute late.

Looks just like our Chevy Tahoe ..... except ours is maroon :-)

Deborah, the specs on the Apollo Sport are quite similar to this one, but that's not it. For those who've not seen that car, here's a photo of the rear-end (which is less elegant than the car in the contest, in my opinion).

Paula, your son missed it by that much! Kyle is technically more correct (even if a minute late) -- it's the CCX, which succeeded the CCR.

My question to both Kyle and Paula's son: did you both just know this, or did you have to do some digging? Because, frankly, I had never heard of this car before I stumbled across a reference to it while reading about the Pagani Zonda (which is one of the funkiest-looking "supercars" in existence).

Jeff, my biggest complaint with the CCX is that it doesn't appear to easily accommodate a bike rack.

correction: we'll see if i can afford this car after i get the figures on the first month's itunes sales of the new album. i'm sure it will be close. :-)

and, in answer to your quesiton: DEFINITE digging required. i know as much about cars as don imus knows about race relations.

Kyle, you'd have a better shot at if your parents would stop giving away your CDs to their friends! (Not that I'm complaining, mind you.) OTOH, maybe you're getting a good markup on them...

I wondered if the "800 bhp" reference would be enough to google up the answer to the car quiz.

well, "800 hp" returns a thousand non-conclusive results, but i was eventually led to none other than wikipedia, where i stumbled across the aforementioned pagani zonda, and somehow found it from there.

of course, it being wikipedia, i was slightly nervous that the Koenigsegg was not a real thing at all, added some by bally-hooligan to make people like me look foolish, which isn't hard to do.

Eric,
With reference to your statement that "the the car's engine generates over 800 bhp off the showroom floor, but its quarter mile time is still almost 10 seconds" It accelerates 0-62 in 3.2 seconds and at the end of the quarter mile it is clicking along at 146 mph.

Gregg, I guess I did manage to make an amazing achievement sound rather humdrum. In actuality, the CCX's quarter mile time is probably in the top 3 of any production car in the world.

Interestingly, the 426 Hemi V8 that was put in some Plymouth and Dodge muscle cars in the 60s provided 1/4 mile times very close to what the CCX is now doing 40 years later.