Supercars of the 90s

From 5 July to 1 September 2024, you could find the boldest, most extreme and fastest 90s supercars at the Louwman Museum. We succeeded in bringing together an impressive collection of super sports cars. Several models had never before been shown on Dutch soil, and a few of them rarely see the light of day.

It is the task of the Louwman Museum to share all facets and periods of automotive evolution with the public. As recently as 2023, the focus was on the cyclecars from the beginning of the last century. During this exhibition, the time machine was set to the 1990s. We highlighted the supercars of that era, because in that decade there seemed to be a real craze surrounding high performance sports cars. The foundations for this had already been laid in the 1980s. New brands emerged. Many launches were scheduled especially for the early 1990s. It was a financial crisis around 1992/93 that made wealthy car enthusiasts more cautious, causing supercar orders to collapse and new sports car brands to go bankrupt or projects to be terminated prematurely.

Even so, plenty of interesting and impressive super sports cars appeared in the 1990s. The Louwman Museum managed to bring together a unique collection. For this purpose, the term supercar was defined as limited production volume, at least 500 hp and a top speed of well over 300 km/h. Within that definition, a wide variety of models could be admired, divided into different categories: production models, limited editions, homologation cars and prototypes. Some models had never been shown in the Netherlands before, not even in the Benelux. And the group of sports cars as such had never been seen before in the Netherlands as a whole. Not in the Benelux, and not even in Europe. Perhaps not even in the world...

With appropriate pride, the Louwman Museum presented the following cars during the exhibition 'Supercars of the 90s':