Let's pretend for a moment that numbering of years after the Christ was born started from zero and the first year was actually "year zero". If that's true, it means we are now witnessing time when
first decade of 21st century is about to end and we can now look back at past ten years and remember the best cars of this period.
How were these years for auto industry? Golden years of automotive history or time when mankind left cars for SUVs and then scrapped SUVs along with companies making them in favour for smaller cars and hybrids? How were these years for sportscars? I am sure, sports cars and performance cars in general is the subject we are most interested in.
When a year is about to end it is often fashionable to do these "car of the year" features, declaring the best car of any particular kind. After a post by Bezza asking which is your car of the decade, I decided we had to ask this question to all of our visitors - registered and unregistered - in a form of QuickVote.
After a little brainstorming session in forum, we decided (actually it was just me who made that
decision) to focus on performance cars and changed the subject to "performance car of the decade".
Three cars clearly had to be included - Bugatti Veyron, Nissan GT-R and Chevrolet Corvette Z06.
Bugatti Veyron because it is the most beautifully engineered car ever and is something that the
beginning of 21st century will be remembered for. Nissan GT-R and Corvette Z06 because those were
the best bang-per-buck sportscars that could outperform supercars often multiple times more
expensive. Clearly those two shook the age old hierarchy in sportscar world, turned it upside down and while doing it, made the most noise in Internet chat rooms and message boards, including this site.
Fourth contender, again chosen single-handedly by me in a deeply authoritative fashion, is Audi R8.
Some praise it for being the first Audi able to oversteer, more grown-up people value the
practicality and ease of use not typical to a supercar. Either way Audi R8 received almost entirely positive feedback from auto journalists and others who had the chance to try it. And the length of waiting list when the car was launched only backed up this positive feedback.
So make your mind up, chose your favourite from these four cars and if you believe that performance car of the decade is different car, leave a comment and tell us which car do you think it is.
Finally - I wish all fastestlaps.com members and visitors a great 2010 with even more automotive fun and lots more laptimes to collect and compare. This year was great for fastestlaps.com and I hope the next one will be even better!
