SUPER GT
PERSONAL PREFERENCE REMAINS THE DECIDING factor for anyone choosing a new sports car. Nobody can tell you what you like – just as you can’t be told to take to a bottle of Argentinian Carménère, a rib-eye steak done ‘black and blue’, or the music of Andre Rieu.
Even so, in such a diverse exotic sports car market as we now have, it can be hard enough just to narrow down the options. So, what next? Should I have the really fast one, or maybe the hybrid one, perhaps? Or the throwback, lightweight one? What about the heavyweight electric one, or the really wild, hardcore one?
My stock response tends to be to drive as many as you can and then, barring any revelations or revulsions, to plump for whatever it was that you really fancied in the first place. But whatever you’re favouring, I’d always advise, think carefully about where, how and how often you might be able to actually use and drive it before you sign anything.
For all its many-splendoured variety, today’s sports car market contains only two kinds of prospect when you really get down to brass tacks: cars you can
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