Maybe it is...if we're to disallow performance variants (though when, for example, do the various power outputs and SE/M-sport/M variants of BMWs become 'performance'?) I'd nominate the Subaru diesel boxer.
Pretty much any Subaru with the diesel boxer, in fact. It produces the same torque as the old H6 petrol engine, and the 4WD seems to allow you hold onto much of that output through bends. I tried a diesel Forester 6 speed manual that could reach 70 in 3rd and still wasn't running out of huff - only I wasn't foolish enough to try carrying that through an s-bend in someone else's car.
It was great fun though, in a holymotherofgodthisisfast way :-)
EDIT: As the quattro gets a mention above, the 3 litre TDI as used in the Allroad A6s has to be in with a shout too...
Last edited by: Gromit on Wed 14 May 14 at 11:42
|