Like, for example, you could put all four of them – the Subaru BRZ (or its identical twin, the Toyota 86, which we decided to judge as the same car for this exercise), the Ford Focus ST, Renaultsport Megane RS265 and the BMW M135i – in your garage for under $200K, less than half of what’d it cost to get into the most expensive car here, the SLS AMG Roadster. While what matters most here is performance, and the thrill factors they deliver, it’s hard not to put this quartet into perspective when it comes down to dollars.
Y’see, never in the 17-year history of this competition had we had a group of cut-priced contenders with as much potential to punch above their weight as this a motley bunch from all corners of the globe attempting to converge on the same destination by offering just as many thrills as our heavyweight contenders for a fraction of the price.Īs a group, it consisted of three hot hatches – a pair of front-drive, four-cylinder turbos and a rear-drive, twin-turbo six – and the hottest car on the planet this year.īut then there was a whole bunch of ways you could dice them up: a pair of sub-$40K fun machines a head-to-head between two of the hottest hatches two rear-drivers versus two front-drivers or even working class against premium… the list could go on, and on.
This Performance Car Of The Year article was first published in MOTOR Magazine January 2013.Īnd most of them would come from this bunch the underdogs. AFTER all the oohs and ahhs, the fingerpointing and bonnet-openings subside, and once the entire 14-car field for this year’s Performance Car Cup had gathered together for the first time, there was a general consensus that we’d be in for a few surprises over the event’s three-day running.
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