10 of the Fastest Cars You Can Buy for Under $100,000

Cheatsheet ^ | 9 May, 2017 | Micah Wright

[MtnClimber]

We’ve had enough of these ludicrous luxury car sticker prices. It seems like every supercar carries a six figure price tag, leaving the fastest cars on the market completely out of reach for all but the ultra-wealthy. Seriously, if you had $250K, what would you rather buy, a massive house or a car?

It isn’t just because these cars are extremely expensive to engineer and manufacture, but because prestige always comes at a premium, a phrase the über elite love to recite when shopping for that fresh Ferrari. Fortunately, there are still quite a few cars out there that can be had for under six figures. Horsepower is getting cheaper by the year, and that means that 200 miles per hour and sub-four second zero to 60 times are more attainable than ever before.

For those of you who are looking for speed and power for less than a hundred grand, the following vehicles are for you. Naturally, there are quite a few other automobiles out there that qualify, but for the sake of time and space we’ve kept our list to the following ten contenders.

10. Lexus LC 500 9. BMW M2 8. Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG S . . . 2. Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat 1. Corvette Z06

[MtnClimber]

I think the Ford Mustang Shelby 350GT is a big omission. And others? My Audi S6 will do 0-60 in 3.7 seconds.

[dynoman]

Where will 250K buy you a “massive house”??

[BenLurkin]

Just not in the market for a car that’s worth more than my domicile.

[MtnClimber]

I thought that too!

[RegulatorCountry]

The rural south and rural midwest.

[mylife]

A Hyundia Sonata works pretty well for a fraction of the price

[MtnClimber]

Not in Colorado. I live way outside Denver in a private pocket in the Roosevelt National Forest and the small house next to me just sold for over $300K. Colorado is having a serious housing bubble.

[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

Where will 250K buy you a “massive house”??

Central or Western Pennsylvania.

[mylife]

I drive an early 2000s Ram Truck, that’s all manual

If I need speed I’ll get a bike.

[dynoman]

I live in the Midwest. What vintage “massive house”?

Sure can’t build a new “massive house” for 250k.

[Vendome]

Shoulda replaced the Hellcats with Mustang 350.

Hellcats are notorious for blowing up due to their inability to handle over rev and pressure for more than 10 seconds...

[vooch]

$250k buys a massive house in 80% of the country :)

akron
fargo
durango
Elmira
etc
etc

[mylife]

Why does my janitor need an S class Mercedes?

[jjotto]

Other sources have slightly different lists. And some of the cars on all the lists can’t really be had for $100k, though the “base price” may be under that.

http://www.autobytel.com/sports-cars/car-buying-guides/10-of-the-fastest-cars-under-100k-118392/

[mylife]

10 years ago you could pick up a new corvette for 40K.

[mylife]

And that is where I will retire.

[central_va]

I’d like someone form the auto insurance world to chime in on the how much it would cost to insure one of these beasts.

[mylife]

Funny thing is folks that drive these beasts think if they drive slow its cheaper LOL

[RegulatorCountry]

I was just reading about the Meyers Manx dune buggy, and Bruce Meyers' newest iteration, the Manxter, with a Subaru STI turbo crate engine is capable of sub-four second 0-60. Pretty cool looking, too. There are a couple of places that do turnkey builds, one in Cape Cod and one in SoCal that I'm aware, or you can build it yourself the old school dune buggy way by ordering the fiberglass components from Meyers Manx. Turnkey appears to be from around $35K on up depending upon how fancy you get.

Pretty cool old guy, Bruce Meyers. He's 90 now and still driving his creations all over the country to events to promote the preservation of vintage Manx as well as his new buggies. I met him in 2014 on the OBX of NC, annual event, "Manx On The Banx." Here's a Jay Leno's Garage episode featuring the very first fiberglass dune buggy ever made, a Meyers Manx, he invented them pretty much:

https://youtu.be/PYYPJ-ExM-M

Those externally mounted tanks are from a Baja competition he entered way back, they were for extra fuel.