British television motoring journalist Vicki Butler-Henderson reports in the UK's Times Online that supercars are becoming more effeminate than ever before. Butler-Henderson pegs the introduction of Acura’s NSX as the genesis of the ‘female-friendly’ supercar (we prefer to think of them simply as more useable and reliable). With heretofore unseen ergonomic refinement, daily-driver tractability, reliability and even decent mileage, the NSX redefined what an exotic could be.

Of course, throwbacks to the hard-edged, bite-you-in-the-arse school of supercardom remain readily available. Butler-Henderson points to her bout with a particularly tempestuous Aston Martin Vanquish S, but virtually any TVR promises a single-minded performance experience, with the caveat of a not unsizeable asterisk by reliability and comfort.