From that hotbed of specialty-car builders and great drivers, Boston, comes this newest pointy-nosed supercar, the Rapier SL-C Superlite.

We can only adopt that the guys at Rapier Automotive forgot that Boston was no longer part of the British Empire when they opened shop in Massachusetts. In jolly-old England there are literally great swarms of independent sports-car builders who announce a new project moments before insolvency. But we digress.

Rapier has apparently been developing its 2375-pound, 222-mph mid-engine widow-maker for some five years. It's now ready to take your order. Prices start at $179,000 for a Rapier powered by a 480-hp LS3 small-block. The company will be happy to drop an LS7 from the Corvette Z06 or a supercharged LS9 from the ZR1 into your car, should you want a little more juice. The company wants 50 percent upfront and then expects that you will have sent your final check to them by the time the car is finished, something that will happen in nine months says Rapier.

If this sounds a lot like a Mosler MT900, that's because it kind of is. And then there's the recently unveiled Hennessey Venom GT from a company that we've actually heard of and with a body that doesn't look like a kit car. But we digress again. It's about the same price as the new Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, but as Rapier points out, the SL-C is the "most exclusive hand-built supercar on the planet." We reckon that might be literally true.

Have a look at Rapier's Web Page.