MINI COOPER S CABRIO - MORE FUN THAN A PORSCHE!
Mar 23, 2011
Here is how they came up with their top-10 list of the cars offering the most driving fun. Too other models that we offer also made the list:
"Fun to drive" is a subjective measure—an elusive quality that can mean different things to different people. From our experience, a car can have a very powerful engine and accelerate quickly, but without handling agility, it's not much fun. For us, fun is a combination of factors such as handling response, sound, and the nature of the power delivery that lead to grin-inducing satisfaction. To come up with our list of the 10 most fun cars to drive, we first took a slice according to our scores for handling, steering feel, and body control. Then we looked at acceleration, but found most cars today have plenty of power. Finally, we took a secret ballot to give our testers a chance to capture those elusive subjective qualities, including sounds. Here are the Top 10, in rank order, among the cars we've recently tested:
BMW 135i
Mini Cooper S Conv
Porsche 911 Carrera S
Mazda MX-5 Miata
Chevrolet Corvette Z06
Porsche Boxster
Mazda RX-8
Volkswagen GTI
BMW 328i
Mitsubishi Lancer EVO
