Appreciating car for £30,000 that's fast around a circuit

[RobM77]

ZNSsupercars said:

Buy a mk2 Renault Clio V6.
Why? I here you ask.
1)manual
2)fun
3)sound awesome
4)look awesome
5)fast

Here is one from the class fields
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/r...

Edited by ZNSsupercars on Monday 15th December 09:25

I've driven a couple of these and they're lovely road cars with lots of character and interest, but I'm not sure they'd be much fun on a race track, as reviews at the time showed all too well.

[CRA1G]

You wouldn't go wrong with a BMW Z3 M Coupe.........






But I would say that wouldn't I.......

[Geesus]

CRA1G said:

You wouldn't go wrong with a BMW Z3 M Coupe.........






But I would say that wouldn't I.......

I have a love/hate relationship with the Z3 M Coupe

[Geesus]

What if we up the anti a bit and move to £40,000.
What sort of 911 could I get that fits the bill?
Are all GT3s now north of £50k?

[RobM77]

I know I've said it before, but a Lotus 2-Eleven for £30k is going to be pretty hard to beat. The OP did say 'fast', and most of the cars mentioned so far are going to be a very long way off Caterham/2-11/Atom pace, plus heavier cars are very expensive to track in terms of brakes and tyres etc. I don't think you could go far wrong with a £20k R300, and then up the ante to an R500 or 2-11 if you want to go faster.

Unless I missed something and this car has gone daily usable as well?

[Geesus]

RobM77 said:

I know I've said it before, but a Lotus 2-Eleven for £30k is going to be pretty hard to beat. The OP did say 'fast', and most of the cars mentioned so far are going to be a very long way off Caterham/2-11/Atom pace, plus heavier cars are very expensive to track in terms of brakes and tyres etc. I don't think you could go far wrong with a £20k R300, and then up the ante to an R500 or 2-11 if you want to go faster.

Unless I missed something and this car has gone daily usable as well?

It won't be a daily ever. Not exclusively for track (Odd Sunday drive etc) but I think to get it past the wife it would need to have 4 seats..... We'll see