Cars that are the most and least fun to drive
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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 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. Below, we present our picks for the cars that are the most and least fun to drive.
Category | Most fun |
|---|---|
Sports coupes | |
Roadsters & convertibles | |
High performance | |
Muscle cars | |
Luxury sedans | Infiniti M37, Jaguar XJ, Audi A6, Cadillac CTS, Porsche Panamera |
Sports sedans | |
Small & subcompact cars | |
Small SUVs | Mini Cooper Countryman, Nissan Juke, Volkswagen Tiguan, BMW X1, Ford Escape |
Midsized SUVs |
Category | Least fun |
|---|---|
Sports coupes | |
Roadsters & convertibles | |
Muscle cars | |
Luxury sedans | |
Sports sedans | |
Small & subcompact cars | |
Small SUVs | |
Midsized SUVs |
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