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Does that car Dad? Automotive reviews Finding out if we can make a car work with a family from minivans to Lamborghinis.

09/19/2026

Hennessey just built the anti-modern hypercar. 🦅

Meet the Blackbird: a clean-sheet, carbon-chassis American hypercar with a naturally aspirated 6.2L V8 targeting 800–850 hp and 9,000+ RPM, a SIX-SPEED GATED MANUAL, rear-wheel drive… and not a single screen in the cockpit.

Inspired by the SR-71 Blackbird, it even gets active vertical stabilizers that deploy at 71 mph. Only 71 will exist, with pricing starting at $2.5 million.

Hot Dad Take: Forget chasing 2,000 horsepower. A screaming N/A V8, three pedals and under 3,000 lbs might be the more exciting flex.

09/18/2026

Koenigsegg built a GT1 race car to take on the world… and it never got the chance. 🏁

The CCGT was revealed in 2007, based on the CCR but transformed into a purpose-built GT1 machine. Its naturally aspirated 5.0L V8 produced around 600 hp, while extensive weight reduction brought it down to roughly 1,000 kg (2,200 lbs). No superchargers. No unnecessary luxury. Just a lightweight, high-revving Koenigsegg built for the track.

The plan was to homologate it for GT1 competition and go racing against the likes of Ferrari, Aston Martin and Corvette. But before Koenigsegg could get there, the regulations changed—including production requirements that a tiny manufacturer like Koenigsegg couldn’t meet.

So the CCGT never raced.

One prototype. Roughly 600 hp. About 2,200 lbs. And one of the biggest “what ifs” in modern racing history.

Would the CCGT have actually been competitive in GT1? 👀

09/17/2026

The 2027 Lincoln Nautilus just got a serious glow-up!! The exterior is sharper, the interior still feels like a first-class lounge, and that massive 48-inch display remains.

But here’s the hot dad take: Lincoln nailed the luxury and family-friendly comfort, then completely undercooked the performance. With just 285 combined horsepower, this thing looks ready to chase BMWs and Mercedes—but drives like it’s asking permission.

Give the Nautilus 400 hybrid horsepower and AWD, and suddenly it’s not just a comfortable family SUV. It’s the luxury dad-mobile Lincoln should have built in the first place.

09/17/2026

The Lucid Gravity GTS is a minivan for dads who refuse to buy a minivan.

And I’m completely okay with that. 😂

Look at the formula.

Three rows. Long roof. Tons of passenger space. Tons of cargo space. Family-first packaging.

My brother in Christ…

You bought a minivan.

Except Lucid apparently looked at the traditional family hauler and thought, “Okay, but what if Dad actually wanted to drive it?”

That’s where the Gravity GTS gets interesting.

Because the ultimate dad car shouldn’t force you to choose between the vehicle your family needs and the vehicle you actually want.

I want room for the kids.

I want Costco space.

I want something comfortable enough for a road trip.

And when I’m finally alone in the car, I want it to absolutely HAUL.

🔥 HOT DAD TAKE: Stop trying to kill the minivan. Make minivans cool again.

Give them great wheels, ridiculous performance and enough attitude that Dad volunteers for every grocery run.

So let’s settle it:

Lucid Gravity GTS — performance SUV or the world’s coolest minivan? 👇

09/16/2026

The horsepower war is getting boring.

There. I said it.

While everyone else is trying to build the next 1,500+ horsepower technological missile, McLaren just showed us something arguably more interesting:

A V8. A manual transmission. Rear-wheel drive.

The McLaren McL 6GT Concept reaches back to Bruce McLaren’s original M6GT vision and asks a question I think the entire industry needs to hear:

What if making a supercar better doesn’t mean making it faster?

Because at some point, 0–60 numbers become just numbers.

What you actually remember is the sound. The steering. Nailing a downshift. Getting the corner right. And occasionally getting the corner VERY wrong. 😂

🔥 HOT DAD TAKE: Give me 600–700 horsepower I can actually interact with over 1,500 horsepower being managed by seventeen computers.

If McLaren puts this into production anywhere close to the concept, this might be the McLaren I’d want most.

McL 6GT or W1 — which one gets your garage spot? 👇

09/16/2026

HOT DAD TAKE 🔥: The CZ26 is what the SF90 should’ve looked like.

There. I said it. 😂

Meet the Ferrari CZ26 — a true one-of-one created through Ferrari’s Special Projects program for a U.S. client.

Underneath, you’ve basically got SF90 Stradale hardware: a 4.0L twin-turbo V8, three electric motors and nearly 1,000 horsepower.

But Ferrari completely reworked the body.

And THIS is where it gets interesting.

It’s clean. It’s weird. It’s retro. It’s futuristic. It has shades of old-school Italian concept cars without looking like Ferrari simply raided its own back catalog.

The SF90 was brutally fast, but I’ve never thought it was one of Ferrari’s prettiest cars.

This? This has presence.

🔥 HOT DAD TAKE: Ferrari needs more of THIS energy. Stop making every new supercar look like it was designed by the wind tunnel first and the humans second. Give me strange proportions. Give me character. Give me something a 10-year-old sees once and remembers forever.

Only problem?

There’s ONE. And somebody already owns it. 😭

CZ26 or SF90 — which keys are you grabbing? 👇

09/15/2026

Cadillac needs to build the V-ONE.

Because THIS is how you make Cadillac cool to an entirely new generation.

The V-ONE takes actual V-Series.R DNA — Dallara carbon chassis, naturally aspirated 5.5L V8, hybrid boost and around 830 horsepower — then wraps it in something that looks ready to terrorize both Le Mans and valet parking. 😮‍💨

And here’s where I’m probably going to start an argument:

If Cadillac put this into limited production, I’d rather see this wearing America’s exotic-car crown than another $500K European supercar.

Cadillac… don’t tease us with this one.

Would you actually buy a Cadillac over Ferrari/McLaren/Lambo if THIS were the Cadillac?

09/02/2026

SPYKER. IS. BACK.

After years of wondering whether we’d ever see another new Spyker, the Dutch lunatics showed up at Monterey Car Week with the C8 Preliator XXV.

Nearly 800 HP. Twin-turbo V8. Rear-wheel drive. And the part that immediately got Dad’s attention…

A REAL 6-SPEED MANUAL.

Then you get the hand-formed aluminum body, exposed shifter linkage, analog gauges and an interior that looks like a vintage aircraft and a luxury watch had a baby.

Oh — and they’re only building 25.

HOT DAD TAKE: The supercar world desperately needs Spyker. Everything is getting faster, more digital and arguably more interchangeable. Then these guys come back from the dead with three pedals, analog gauges and enough weird aviation-inspired metalwork to make absolutely no financial sense.

Good.

Supercars SHOULD be ridiculous.

Would you take the Spyker over a Ferrari or Lamborghini? 👇

09/02/2026

Turns out your neighborhood Defender has a VERY unhinged cousin.

The Defender D7X-R took the bones of the OCTA — including its 4.4L twin-turbo V8, core architecture, transmission and driveline — and turned them into a full-blown Dakar weapon.

Then Defender showed up to the 2026 Dakar Rally for the FIRST TIME and took 1st and 2nd in the Stock class. 🏆

HOT DAD TAKE: This is how you sell an SUV. Don’t give me another commercial about “adventure.” Take the thing into the desert, beat the hell out of it for two weeks, WIN DAKAR… and then hand me the keys.

Now the school pickup line is looking a little different.

Would you daily a Dakar-spec Defender?

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