What's the best PERFORMANCE CAR for under 100K?

[CHADbee]

The funny thing is most people who have never driven any of these cars base everything off of magazine stats.

my choice for a car to drive on the STREET, is a 911-S w/ PDK tranny. Its more raw than every other car in the list (maybe the viper is similarly raw but much less refined). Sitting next to any RWD manual car at a light, the 911 is going to have a shot no matter how fast the other car may be. I'd wager that 99% of all guys driving z06s or vipers around town would get raped by the 911 PDK launch control from a light.



The GT-R is just not sporty enough. Sure it hauls ass and does well on a track but it's still a heavy tank with a fraction of the 'feel' that a 911 has.

911-S (natural sports car, raw feel is fun)
GTR (can't argue with 2012 performance)
e92 (fun factor and luxury)
z06 (bad ass but not a good street car)
viper (its a chrysler, rock bottom no matter how fast or good looking)

that would be my order for a car to drive around on the street.

I have driven most of the cars talked about in this thread, and I have driven them hard. I have not driven a Viper before though. I have also not driven a PDK Porsche, yet.(but have driven manual GT3's)

I agree with most of your points, except the E92 being above the C6Z. The current M3 is an awesome car, don't get me wrong BUT these days you have $35k Mustang GT's out braking, corning and accelerating them. The M3 is a fantastic luxury sports coupe but there are MUCH better performance cars out there for the money. At least for a guy like me who is A LOT more focused on performance than luxury.

[Moseley]

I have driven most of the cars talked about in this thread, and I have driven them hard. I have not driven a Viper before though. I have also not driven a PDK Porsche, yet.(but have driven manual GT3's)

I agree with most of your points, except the E92 being above the C6Z. The current M3 is an awesome car, don't get me wrong BUT these days you have $35k Mustang GT's out braking, corning and accelerating them. The M3 is a fantastic luxury sports coupe but there are MUCH better performance cars out there for the money. At least for a guy like me who is A LOT more focused on performance than luxury.

Yeah the 2011 revisions to the C6s are nice too. I think if the title of the thread was best performING car then the M3 would not be anywhere close to the others. I just like the balance of the whole package in the M3. And yeah the new mustangs are fast, especially the boss 302. I hear they rev the boss motors to 8200 no problem with tuning... but the stickers and bulky looks really turn me off. I just don't know if I could drive one.