1. Porsche 911 (Carrera S and Carrera 4S)
So far, we’ve driven the new 992 generation of the Porsche 911 in both rear-drive Carrera S and four-wheel-drive Carrera 4S guises. Both tests suggested that this eighth-generation, a rear-engined sporting hero is every inch as great a driver’s car because the 991 it's replaced – and if anything stands able to take the sport further faraway from its rivals.
Having grown longer and slightly wider, the 911
Both versions use what
Although there’s
2. Jaguar F-Type
The sales fortunes of Jaguar’s much-hyped successor for the Lyons-designed E-Type will tell you much about the event of the fashionable sports car market. When it launched in 2013, we imagined the buying public would value it as a kind of prettier and more dependable modern TVR – favoring the biggest-hitting eight-cylinder engines and viewing it as a less expensive and more powerful front-engined rival to the 911.
For
After its latest facelift, the F-Type straddles every inch of
Jaguar’s new styling treatment for the car certainly gives it some fresh and distinguishing visual appeal.
3. Lotus Evora
A decade has now passed since the introduction of Lotus’s mid-engined, 2+2 Porsche-chaser, the Evora.
At the time of its introduction, the car brought
However, that which was questionable about Evora’s wider case for ownership back in 2009 has become nothing
A particularly small boot would make weekend touring jaunts difficult, while
Still, if
4. Chevrolet Corvette
Much has been written about General Motors’ decision to gamble with this, the eighth generation of its iconic Corvette sports car, by switching from a front-mounted engine to a mid-mounted one. there have been objective reasons to try to do it: because it improves the car’s weight distribution and enhances its outright handling potential. And there was a more complex argument: that a mid-engined layout has become expected of an operator within this part of the sports car market, and therefore the old Corvette’s front-engined configuration made it something of a relic to the newest generation of sports car buyers.
Whatever it took to finally convince GM
Bristling with small-block-V8 combustive charm, the C8’s engine has excellent throttle response,
Back to top
The C8 handled with
5. BMW i8
The i8 is one among the foremost compelling and weird sports cars we’ve tested in years, not only due to its fascinating plug-in hybrid powertrain, its appealing driving experience, and its otherworldly design but also due to how exquisitely finished it seems like a product – both inside and out of doors – and the way easy it might be to measure with.
It is available in both closed and open-roof body styles. That its outright performance and handling dynamics fall slightly
It’s ironic that production of the i8
6. Nissan GT-R
However long within the tooth, he has become, Godzilla will feel as if he’s in rude health right until his Judgment Day . If out-and-out real-world, any-condition speed is what you crave from your sports car, nothing does it better below £100,000 than Nissan’s self-identified ‘world’s fastest brick’: the incredible, indefatigable GT-R.
But then speed probably isn’t quite all
Delicacy and subtlety aren’t this car’s specialisms
7. Lexus LC
As a keen driver, you are feeling inclined to form a case for the LC. it's a perfectly charismatic and likable V8 engine, while balanced, spry, involving handling makes it feel, at times, more of a natural rival for the Jaguar F-Type or Porsche 911 than the combination of two and four-door sporting grand tourers that Lexus identifies as its true opponents. Hence its inclusion here.
The LC seems large, heavy, leaden-footed, and
Ultimately,
8. Maserati Granturismo
That Maserati got numerous of the fundamentals right with its GranTurismo coupĂ© makes the car’s remaining few failings all the more frustrating. How difficult could it be to urge the seating position right, for example? Or to repair the odd trim fit defect? Or to perfect the adjustable damping? We’ll never know now that production has been discontinued, with the previous unregistered examples shortly to disappear from showrooms permanently .
More complex and thus more forgivable is that just occasionally we wish the Granturismo’s V8 engine hit
While we can’t ignore such troubles in our overall rating,
9. Morgan Plus Six
The past few years are transformative ones at the Morgan Motor Company. Having been family-owned and operated until its 110th anniversary, the firm is now majority-owned by private equity and has just launched its first ground-up new car in almost two decades: the Plus Six.
Back to top
Built on an all-new box-section aluminum monocoque chassis with double the rigidity of the old Aero-series Plus Eight, the Plus Six uses
It’s pretty dynamically sophisticated, too, albeit qualified by
The Plus Six still delivers greater motive and charm and sense of occasion than outright grip and handling agility – perhaps
10. Alfa Romeo 4C
The 4C should are the car to rocket Alfa Romeo back to the headlines and restore its reputation as a maker of world-class driver’s cars. That it took the Giulia saloon to truly achieve that, a couple of years later, says most of what you would like to understand about this car – of which production has now officially ceased.
This was
The 4C was withdrawn from UK sale in closed roof form back in 2016. The Spider that remained made
The handling is nothing if not direct and involving, and its turbocharged four-pot engine feels pretty potent
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.