The Best Affordable Sports Car: 2024 Shootout

Опубликовано 16 августа 2024, 17:05

Affordable, engaging cars are a rarity these days, but these four all provide plenty of smiles per hour for less than the average new car transaction price.

Don't get it twisted: the Mazda MX-5 Miata, Mini Cooper S, Subaru BRZ, and Toyota GR86 don't represent the entire spread of affordable sports cars. There are other options around the $40,000 range, a few of which are American. For this comparison however, we're focusing on small footprints, and big fun. And we mean fun in different ways, too: the new-for-2025 Mini is the front-drive interloper here, yet offers a very particular sort of fun compared to the pared-back Mazda.
With contributing writers Jeff Wilson and Jerry Vo along for the ride, we spent days driving these cars in all sorts of situations before scoring them. Rain and shine, highway slogs and glorious backroads, these bundles of fun did it all. Read on for the affordable sports car comparison, brought to you by WeatherTech.

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