Hypercar

EXCLUSIVE Car manufacturing is set to return to Australia with one of the most iconic names in motorsport. A top-secret road-going supercar – to rival the likes of Ferrari, McLaren, and Lamborghini – is currently being developed by local manufacturer Brabham Automotive. “We will be releasing a new road vehicle ... [and] our intention is for that vehicle to be built in Australia," the company's CEO, Dan Marks, revealed to CarAdvice.

Prospective buyers for the Toyota GR Super Sport – the Japanese company's first road-going hypercar available to the public – will need to prove they're worthy. A form posted on the Toyota Japan website has asked potential buyers to list how many high-performance sports cars they currently own, as well as asking them to list their Top 10 favourites.

The long-awaited Mercedes-AMG One hypercar – which will reportedly be driven by a modified Formula One hybrid power unit – has been teased in a new YouTube video. The 43 second clip gives the best insight yet into the vehicle’s complex active aerodynamic package. The interior is also shown off, and we catch a glimpse of a car's substantial centre-mounted infotainment screen and digital cluster behind the steering wheel. MORE: Lewis Hamilton tests Mercedes-AMG One hypercar in new campaign

Croatian hypercar manufacturer, Rimac Automobili, is undertaking a rigorous and expensive crash-test program for its all-electric C_Two hypercar ahead of its production run commencing in 2021. In all, Rimac is building 13 prototypes and five pre-production examples of its 415km/h all-electric hypercar, with plans to destroy 11 of them in order to homologate the C_Two globally.

Alieno – a near-unheard-of technology company based in the tiny Bulgarian village of Slashten – claims it is set to launch a 3840kW/8880Nm electric hypercar named the Arcanum. What’s more, the company is now taking preorders for the vehicle and says cars can be delivered in as little as 18 months.