14:19 30-11-2025

Why 2025 sports coupes are heavier—yet faster than ever

Sports coupes in 2025 are a different breed—at least on the scales. Today, a car can qualify as sporty even when it weighs more than an old SUV yet still sprints harder than supercars from ten years ago.

The Rolls-Royce Spectre Black Badge, at 2,975 kg—nearly three tons—opens this tour of performance coupes. It doesn’t shout or snarl; it gathers speed in near silence, like a marble monument set in motion by electricity.

Next is the Bentley Continental GT Speed. It tips the scales at 2,459 kg but comes across as a velvet battering ram. With a V8 rated at 782 hp and roll-suppression tech, it doesn’t attack corners so much as stroll through them with composure.

The Maserati GranTurismo Folgore is another heavyweight with an Italian accent. At 2,335 kg it delivers up to 1,200 hp and walks a line between drama and grace. Think less bare-knuckle athlete, more charismatic bruiser.

From Asia comes the Yangwang U9, weighing 2,475 kg. Thanks to active suspension it can move in a dance-like way, and it blasts from zero to 100 in two seconds despite the heft.

Most surprising is the Rimac Nevera. This Croatian electric hypercar uses four motors and 1,888 hp to fire itself forward like a torpedo, even with a 2,300 kg mass. It doesn’t just defy physics; it feels like it rewrites the rules.

Weight, then, is no longer the villain. In the age of electric drive and electronic control, performance cars are getting heavier without getting slower. What counts is not the figure on the scale but how completely the machine makes you forget it.