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Have you noticed what’s happening in the world of supercars? Talk about one-upmanship. There’s the 887-horsepower Porsche 918 Spyder, the 949-horsepower LaFerrari and, for 2016, the McLaren 675 LT. Bigger, stronger, faster and more expensive, despite the fact that they all have performance limits well beyond the capabilities of about 99.9 percent of the drivers in the world. Fun, but mostly pointless. But there’s a new entry into the field and, frankly, it blows everything else away, at least on paper.