PERFORMANCE WARS 2001

A NO-HOLDS-BARRED ROAD AND RACETRACK CHALLENGE FOR SUPREMACY!

by C. Van Tune and Matt Stone

Trust us on this: No matter what types of cars you lust after, and no matter what era you hold dear, these are the Good Old Days when it comes to serious automotive performance. And not just in an old-fashioned straight-line sense of the term: Today’s hottest rides go, handle, and stop as well as full-out SCCA Trans Am race cars of 30 years ago. Yet, they pack amazingly high levels of luxury, feature content, and electronic technology. For this test, we’ve gathered three of the best. Two are from Germany, one’s all-American, and each presents its own perspective on the sports-car theme: A two-seat mid-engine flat-six-cylinder roadster, a two-seat front-engine V-8 coupe, and a four-seat front-engine inline-six coupe. So besides gobbling up several hundred miles of great mountain roads,…

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MotorTrend (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2001

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