These Are The Unlikely Cars You Want To Race

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Anyone tin return a Miata to nan track. They're tin cars, they're inexpensive to get, and location are thousands upon thousands of resources for group looking to commencement playing astir pinch G-forces down nan instrumentality of an MX-5. Same pinch Focus and Fiesta STs, Boxsters, GTIs and WRXes — there's thing unsocial astir taking 1 to nan track. It's each been done before, and will each beryllium done again. That's why, earlier this week, I asked you for thing different: The improbable cars you'd for illustration to race. 

You responded pinch a wealthiness of options, ranging from different to unexpected to things I was afloat unprepared for. Some of your ideas acold surpass thing I could travel up with, and I truly dream personification makes that transportation for a Geo Metro single-make title into a existent series. Take it to Lime Rock aliases Watkins Glen truthful I can screen it, please. Without further ado, present are nan different cars you want to return to nan track. 

Mazda

Mazda5 van pinch a 6spd transmission.

I've besides sewage a CT4V Blackwing 6MT and a BMW 325Ci 5MT convertible, but sometimes heel-toe downshifting successful a mini minivan while driving astatine nan limit is much nosy than either of these cars.

Submitted by: VJ

Mazda loves to make cars that thrust acold amended than they should, truthful I'm not amazed to perceive nan Mazda 5 is great. 

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I went to a Mazda arena wherever we did immoderate way clip pinch prepped Mazda 3's. That was kinda fun.. they had an autocross group up wherever we could thrust each mazda conveyance connected an autocross course. Mazda 6? fun. Mazda miata? Great! RX8? Really fun. Mazda minivan? There was nary statement for nan van and that point could support 1 tyre smoking astatine each times – perfectly nan astir nosy point to autocross that full day.

Submitted by: Hank_Kill

You didn't specify what Mazda van it was, truthful I'm assuming nan MPV because I deliberation that would beryllium fun. 

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Firetrucks. Bonus points if you person personification connected nan firetruck blasting h2o astatine opposing racers. 

Submitted by: Alf enthusiast

Please, someone, make this a existent title that I tin participate in. 

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Driving slow cars fast, is an creation unto itself.

Is location capable Geo Metros and Suzuki Cultus/Swifts still astir to make a bid based connected them?

Run a bunch of them pinch their banal 1.0L i3's successful North American trim. (55 horsepower astatine 5700 rpm and 58 lb·ft astatine 3300 RPM) Fully "loaded", they only weighed 1,591 lbs. After ripping retired each nan interior panels, carpet, rider and backmost seats, etc., you're near pinch immoderate beautiful light-weight cans to propulsion astir a track.

And, nan costs to participate would beryllium laughable compared to almost immoderate different banal series. Almost beryllium competing pinch LeMons, for cheapest car racing connected nan planet. 

Submitted by: Dr.Xyster

To each you readers retired location pinch tons of disposable income, please money this one-make bid for a fewer years. 

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Middle of 4th gen Ford E150 vans pinch nan 5.4 Triton V8. I drove these vans for Airborne Express successful nan early 00s and they were accelerated (for a van), pinch bully brakes.I stake they would beryllium nosy to title astir connected immoderate regular tracks (no ovals), besides batch of abstraction for sponsors.

Submitted by: towman

I for illustration that you're already reasoning astir sponsors, arsenic if an E-series is going to spell accelerated capable to gain nan oculus of brands. 

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Two words: Racing Malaise!

Grab your favourite onshore yacht from nan malaise play and race! The car has to beryllium astatine slightest 5m agelong and person nary much than 200ish horsepower. Bonus points for racing pinch achromatic walls.

Submitted by: dolsh

This surely fits nan "unlikely" side of nan bill, but fun? 

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1971+ Saab 96 V4.

I learned to thrust successful one, and it was a blast. It took a while to build up speed, but it handled good capable that I could KEEP astir of my speed... and it had much than capable brakes to bail maine retired erstwhile I overdid it.

Lift-throttle oversteer!

Submitted by: Tom Seaview

Who doesn't emotion a momentum car? Especially 1 that tin drift, if you squint and adjacent 1 oculus and adjacent nan different and ideate you're drifting. 

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Smart car. Easy. The 2016 pinch nan turbo has awesome acceleration. And OMG nan tight turning.

Submitted by: Mr Macaroni

Let's spell 1 measurement further: Smart ForTwo connected a spell kart track. 

Toyota

The early Scions, nan xA and xB, erstwhile they were nan size of tennis shoes and had nan 1.5L motor. Never fast, but they took maltreatment good and handled predictably.

I would emotion to spot a spec bid based connected NA 1.5L micro/subcompact racing. The xA, xB, som honda Fits, etc.

Submitted by: potbellyjoe

I've really been astir Lime Rock Park astatine afloat tilt successful a Honda Fit, and I tin attest that it was an absolute blast. Slow car accelerated is good, slow car pinch wheels measurement retired astatine nan corners accelerated is moreover better. 

Volkswagen

I ever thought that a caller beetle (with 1 of nan turbo engines) would beryllium a bully spot of dumb nosy astir a track. 

Submitted by: JaredOfLondon

A GTI is simply a awesome way car, why not its platform-mate Beetle?