just curious

 

Either a bmw 2002 race car or one of various Porsches, I like the new Cayman S a lot.

 

Haven't driven a lot of fun cars, so mine would be an Alfa Romeo Spider.

Edit: Forgot about the Toyota MR2 I drove around North Wales in 1990. It was just out, and few people knew what it was. Got a lot of looks, and fun to drive on the mountain roads around Betws y Coed.

 

R33 Nissan Skyline GT-R. Right hand drive, twin turbo.

 

Back in the '80s, when I was scrapping for $$$ I detailed cars. Funnest cars were the Porsche 928, Porsche 911 and Ferrari 308. Ironic thing is the Infiniti G35 6MT sedan I drive now would smoke all three.

 

I don't think driven is a fair comparison since you don't live with and really don't know a 5 minute driven car. The most fun to drive car I've owned is a S2000. It probably has the best 6 speed manual and revving to over 9K RPM's is an adrenalin rush every time (especially under an overpass with top down).

 

'66 Shelby GT350H. The "H" designated cars specifically made for Hertz as rental cars. Most of these were automatic trannys, but there were a few with four speeds. These were really "manly" cars as the steering was only slightly assisted and they had very wide tires for that time period. The brakes were sintered metallic and took a lot of stomping to get the car slowed/stopped.

I was lucky enough to rent a number of these vehicles and used them as "Team Hawgs" at autocrosses for fellow members of my sports car club. Whew, that was HUGE fun throwing those beasts around the corners of the course and power sliding out! The bonus was a few trophies in B Production.

 

I'd have to go with the 2005 RX-8 Shinka. I haven't had a ton of performance cars, but the balance and handling of that car was phenomenal. The wankel engine sitting low and completely behind the front axle gave it such deft steering control. It was extremely easy to control through corners with just the throttle. Too bad it returned 15 mpg overall with all the real power on the top end. Incredibly smooth though and although low torque, it never lugged even at low rpm in high gears.

 

You know what they say about firsts.... My first car was a 1984 corvette. It was a money pit but was fantastic to drive.

 

Renault R5 Turbo with 265 bhp

 

Back in the day I had a new 1983 red Mustang GT 5.0 with manual tranny...helluva FAST car

 

My 08 Viper SRT10 coupe is the most fun and exciting car I've ever driven. Box stock it has 600 hp and is capable of 200+ mph.

 

Stock and with a tailwind a viper will run 202-204 mph,no tailwind 196-198 and into a slight headwind 188-192.

Had Vipers as company cars when i owned a chrysler/dodge/jeep store.

 

mmm, I've been keeping an eye out for one of these for sale, so sexy.

 

Either the E92 M3, or a 91 Miata... or a Lotus Elise (though I didn't get to rag on it too bad)

 

wow an R33 gt-r and a viper srt-10! must be fun to accelerate in those

looks like most of the fun cars are RWD coupes/convertibles

 

I've driven many fast cars and a few exotics but theres nothing like 515 rwtq in my supercharged 928 S4.

 

My 1998 Corvette at 180 Miles per hour was just plain exciting and pure fun.


The 1960 English Ford Anglia was my 2nd. brand new car. I had a lot of fun with it. It was just plain fun to drive and I still have the best lifetime memories of the years I owned this car.

 

A 1977 Rally Chevette. Yes, believe it ... a version of Chevy Chevette that was honestly fun to drive. It was exactly this color, too (thank thee, Wikipedia).



The Rally package was was a hi-output 1.6 carburated SOHC inline 4, with a sport suspension, 4-speed manual, 411:1 rear end, and some special striping. The 'hi-output' meant it put out whopping 70 bhp, up from the 60 bhp of the standard 1.6 (or the 53 bhp of the even more standard 1.4) ... a veritable screamer!!!! It was probably one of the last RWD econo-boxes, which made it fairly unique in the day that the imports were starting to hit the market with the newest rage, FWD.

The 411's made it fairly snappy off the line (although I got the worst red-light spanking in my driving life in it by a Mazda RX-3), and I could throw it around corners like nothing I'd ever driven at the time. It wouldn't go a pimple over 100 mph (coincidentally, the point it redlined in 4th), but I could spin the wheels easily in 1st and usually catch a chirp in 2nd. And being that it was RWD, I could do donuts and power slides like the FWD's could only dream of. Even with all that fun, I could still squeeze 40 mpg out of it on the highway.

But alas, it met its untimely demise (and I nearly mine) at a sharp, blind, sand-covered corner that I hit at a speed that even Schumacher in his F-1 Ferrari would have had difficulty with. No amount of downshifting or e-braking or any other trick I could think of was going to break the laws of physics that would send me nose-first into the unforgivingly large tree that stood patiently waiting on the other side. At least a utility pole would have snapped; but that tree just stood there grinning at the crumpled steel that was my car and not-so-pretty me inside. At least I survived, albeit with a few lingering reminders; but sadly, my Chevette was toast.

Ahh, but we had some good times....

 

1966 Pontiac GTO. Great car. Should have never let this one go!

 

515 rwtq seems pretty high. I did a search and found it rated at 316.9 torque.

 

I'm hoping the 2001-2003 Audi S4 and A6 2.7 twin turbo (same engines) I plan to test drive this week are exciting rides.

 

Is it true that Audis are designed to be driven by German cement salesmen?

 

Thanks for the clarification on the factory power rating. I've edited my original post.

 

It's a tie between my '76 Honda CVCC and my '79 Fiat X 1/9 (when the Fiat ran that is)