What Car - Track/Fast Road Daily Driver - £5-7k

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I've been chewing this one over a while.

What car would you choose for trackday and road thrills at a fairly modest budget but could still be used every day?

I'm keen on considering the "through life cost" - parts must be cheap, upgrades must be cheap, and the car must be supportable by a capable independent mechanic rather than requiring specialist, or even worse, Main Dealer attention (and all the "OEM parts tax" and inflated labour rates that incurs). It would be my only car, but I have a short commute.

Immediately thinking something like the ubiquitous MX-5, or maybe a Renaultsport Clio or Megane?

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ChevronB19 said:

Should add by the way - I had an NC MX5 a couple of cars before the Clio. If I wanted a car that was just a lot of fun, rather than 'fast' (I know all this is relative), I'd go for a 2.0 sport MX5 NC with bilsteins and 4 wheel geometry done properly. If you want the capability to be 'fast' and frenetic, Clio. But for track days I'd always go RWD for fun (my race car is RWD, so I'm biased), but when I was an instructor I always preferred the RWD school cars.

This is appearing a tempting option.

Off to hunt the classifieds.