In The Incredibles, a jealous supervillain tries to get revenge on the heroes by giving everyone super powers and thus rendering them no longer super. Something like that has taken place in the automotive industry over the past 40 years. The supercars of the 1980s still look as good as ever, but even an ordinary crossover can beat them in a straight fight.
When those stereotypical bedroom-wall poster supercars appeared, Skoda was locked behind the Iron Curtain. Now it builds an electric crossover—the Elroq vRS—that was quicker than a Ferrari Testarossa, Lamborghini Countach, and Porsche 944 Turbo (was a 930 Turbo not available?) in a drag race at the hallowed Dunsfold track. It was a fitting venue considering that Top Gear did a similar stunt back in the day showing just how slow an Aston Martin DB5 and Jaguar E-Type are in modern terms.
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