Bang for your buck. It's an American term, but it’s hard to think of a better phrase to describe the concept of getting a lot of performance for not a lot of cash.
While it applies in the market for new cars, depreciation makes it even more relevant in the used car market, and the choice of some of’s past favourite performance cars now selling for pennies is vast. Cheap fast cars are what we're interested in here and, crucially, we've gone in search of models that can be bought, maintained and enjoyed relatively cheaply.
Set yourself an upper limit of £10,000 – about the same price as a new Dacia Sandero Stepway with a coat of metallic paint – and you’ll find everything from V8 muscle cars to turbocharged rally legends, with top speeds in excess of 150mph and 0-60mph figures beginning with fives and sixes.As such, we’ve broken that £10k limit down into four sections, picking three cheap fast cars in each section that should cover a wide range of performance and practicality considerations.
Consider it more of a shopping list – a selection to tempt you when you want to park something a little more exciting alongside your financed diesel family wagon, or if you’re ready to take the plunge into ownership of your first proper
Monaro, please! 🙌