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Best performing mass produced car?

Corvette ZR1. If you doubt...just check 'ring times. The car has had nothing but positive reviews with the only thing people disliking is the quality of the interior. From a handling/power standpoint...it easily beats things twice or three times its price.

Edit: Even Jeremy Clarkson likes the ZR-1...and that is saying a lot for an American car.
 
I suppose everyone has a different definition of "mass produced", but I would vote for:

Porsche 997 911 GT2 - 7:33 'Ring time, great acceleration (3.6 sec 0-60), decent handling, decent fuel economy for its performance.

Best bang for the buck is probably the Lotus Exige S.
 
Originally posted by: RichUK
I suppose you could also factor in cost.

A Ferrari F430?
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I wouldn't consider any Ferrari to be a mass produced car.

That pretty much just leaves Porsche and the Corvette.
 
Ferraris aren't what I would call mass produced. Take the Ford Taurus for example - Ford produced 7.5 million units from 1985-2005 and that isn't counting the current generation. The Taurus us a mass produced car, a Ferrari model with less than 1000 or 10000 production run isn't.
 
Originally posted by: iFX
Ferraris aren't what I would call mass produced. Take the Ford Taurus for example - Ford produced 7.5 million units from 1985-2005 and that isn't counting the current generation. The Taurus us a mass produced car, a Ferrari model with less than 1000 or 10000 production run isn't.
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I was really basing a Ferrari against say a Pagani Zonda.
 
Originally posted by: kalrith
If you just go by ring times, then I think it would be the Viper ACR: Wikipedia article.
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:Q

Geebus that's a crazy fast ring time but It's not mass produced. I'm glad I share the ACR heritage with such a beast. ACR's always handle freaking awesome.
 
The answer is highly dependent on your definition of mass produced. The C6 Corvette I would say is the only truly mass-produced car that fits this bill.

Viper GTS
 
Originally posted by: Viper GTS
The answer is highly dependent on your definition of mass produced. The C6 Corvette I would say is the only truly mass-produced car that fits this bill.

Viper GTS
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I'd call the 911 and Turbo mass-produced cars.
 
I'm not sure you're definition of mass produced, the F430 Scuderia is definitely not.

If you're going to go with production-boutique and disregard everything that is not performance numbers and road legality(comfort, price, livability, etc), Dodge Viper ACR.

If you factor in only performance and not road legal status, probably Caparo T1 (Around TG track, 2.2 sec faster than Ultima 720 [2nd fastest], 6.5s faster than Gumpert Apollo S [#3]) and those numbers arent even for the Extreme model, just the vanilla Caparo T1 ("only" 1000hp/metric tonne).

Evo magazine also tested a lot of cars at Bedford Autodrome West Circuit and the T1 beat #2 Gumpert Apollo S by 8.6s.

"Mass produced as in more than 4k a year(which is just over 11 a day), probably Corvette Z06, 911 Turbo or Lamborghini LP560-4 (The GTR having a production run of only 2400 for 2009, the F430 being slower than a LP560-4 and Scuderia no where near the 4k mark, ditto for 911 GT2, Murcielago, etc)
 
I know you guys don't like the Nissan GTR, but in England it's a relatively good bang for the buck supercar. Not many cars can do sub-4 second 0-60MPH and a 190MPH top end for £60K. And it goes around corners very well.

Remember that the Corvette ZR1 is a pita to buy here, service, source parts, etc, whereas the Nissan isn't.

Plus I saw one for the first time in the flesh yesterday in Didcot and it looked sexy as hell (to me).
 
I'm looking for production numbers but the early results (which admittedly are 10 years old) suggest that Chevrolet probably sells more Corvettes in a month than Porsche does 911 turbos in a year.

http://p-car.com/production.html

Newer numbers suggest a total model line sales rate of ~2,600 total 997's per month (they hit 100K in 39 months). Not having much luck finding what percentage of those were turbos.

In comparison there were 35,310 Corvettes sold for 2008 MY:

http://www.corvetteblogger.com...tte-Production-Numbers

Viper GTS
 
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