5 Fast-as-Hell Cars Under $8k You Can Buy Right Now

The five cars below are all classics in their own right , not because they ’re particularly sybaritic or comfortable , but because they ’re excellent dancing pardner : supremely scant , quick on their feet , and really , reallyfun to push . Though not earth - shatteringly brawny , each is a howling functioning elevator car in the right-hand hands . More importantly , they ’re all imminently affordable . And on eBay . decently now . Better snag one before someone else does !

1985 Mazda RX-7 GS

Price:$7,500The former RX-7s are some of the moreunderrated carsout there . Those who are intimately conversant with them are intensely firm to the very lightweight and well - equilibrate sports cable car , which is why Mazda perpetually flirts with produce a unexampled one . Are there tacky RX-7s out there ? plainly . There are n’t many that are remotely as light and all original as this one , though . It ’s a practical time warp indoors .

1983 Porsche 944

Price:$5,500I’ve say it before , and I ’m saying it again : these car are at their rock - bottom toll , and are prize for a renaissance just like their contemporary rival , the BMW E30 3 - Series . If a lightweight auto with fantastic handling and liberal spare parts is n’t enough to get you in the doorway for under $ 6,000 , it ’s still a Porsche .

1991 Toyota MR2

Price:$5,000It ’s been a recollective fourth dimension since Toyota made two proper performance cars simultaneously . In its day , the MR2 was a bona fide option to the more upscaleSupra . That ’s just the point , though . It ’s a mid - rearward - engined sports railcar with fantastic counterpoise and more performance in the twistier sections of road than most masses recognise what to do with .

1982 Mini Cooper

Price:$7,950If you ’ve never stand next to one in real life , it ’s hard to explicate exactly how pocket-size the original Mini really is . Designed in the first place to be an economy railroad car , the engineers did such a great job of it that it was essentially the first spicy hatchback . To put it another way , the Mini ’s designer once famously quipped , " I make my cars with such good brake , such good guidance , that if people get into a clangour it ’s their own fault . "

1991 Mazda Miata

Price:$4,200The Miata ’s a legend for a reason . you could come up them reasonably much all twenty-four hours for under $ 5,000 and with just a few tweaks they ’ll still out - handle most auto on the road today . This one comes with a hardtop – which is essential if you ever take it to a racetrack , but also damn skillful to have if you plan on using the railcar 12 month of the year .

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