My attorney says I’m not to answer that one.

Toyota.

I nominate the original Acura NSX

I came here to say exactly this.  

Every rental is a high performance car. 

Vauxhall-Lotus Carlton. I know it doesn’t take much to stoke a moral panic here in the UK, but we had a legit moral panic about it. It is a 180mph monster that looks like a regular businessman’s rep-mobile. Some people even claimed to get it up over 200mph, but I suspect that is tall tales.

Crown Vic... rental.

Not a car so maybe it doesn’t count, but the 1991 GMC Syclone (honorable mention to the 3 years of the Typhoon). Built to take corvettes and all other comers at stoplights. AWD, 4.3 with a big turbo on top. The slow spool gave 5.0 mustangs hope...and then crushed it (unless you launched it and then it was just staring…

All you plebians with your Corvettes and your Supras. It’s not enough that you must be wrong, must you also be vulgar?

I envy what you experienced with that Vette’s incredible motor. And given its amazing oomph, flying under the radar was probably a very good thing.

I had a 1990 ZR-1 for a while. That engine was a beautiful thing. Sounded great, loved to rev, and with some minor mods that car handled fantastically. It had a ton of advanced tech for the time, aside from the motor, like electronic adaptive shocks, and it also had a ‘power key’ like a hellcat that activated the…

The obvious answer is McLaren F1, considering it still holds the fastest NA production car title some 30 years later. But for me personally it would be the Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4

I think the McLaren F1 is the apex of 90s sports cars, but the best attainable car would be the Mazda RX-7, 3rd Gen. Not the fastest, but what a beauty.

Volvo 850R wagon

Subaru WRX STi Type RA

I think the market and the popular zeitgeist has crowned the MK IV Supra.

(shrug) For me, it would have been a 5.0 Mustang. Simply because those things were SO damn tuneable, you could pull up to one at a light and have no idea if it were stock at 225 HP (keep in mind that back then, that was sufficient; even your JDM example in the article only made 200 HP), or did it have headers,…

Dark horse candidate: The C4 ZR-1 was a real monster for it’s day. Unfortunately, it’s price was also monstrous and no one bought them. But just look at that engine! Four cams, 32 valves, so complex that GM couldn’t actually build it, so they contracted it out to a boat-engine company. It was one of those ridiculous…

The 1990-95 Corvette ZR-1:

Man there are so many choices. Like all the choices.