The Best Performance Car Of 2024 Is…? Meet The Contenders

It’s that most wonderful time of the year again. No, not Christmas, rather Top Gear Magazine’s Speed Week is once more upon us, the annual test where we gather the best performance cars from the past 12 months and see which stands head and shoulders above the pack.

This year we decamped from Top Gear HQ to Spain. More specifically to the Navarra region in the north, which contains both the newly upgraded Circuito de Navarra, and well as one of the greatest roads in the world, nestled up high in the Pyrenean mountains. We spent a week conducting road and track testing, as well as filming, photographing and getting very little sleep.

As for the cars, we took along not just one F1-car-for-the-road, but two (albeit they’re somehow separated by nearly 100 years…) and a whole host of other fast metal. The full list of contenders vying for the 2024 Speed Week crown is: Aston Martin Valkyrie, Porsche 911 S/T, Corvette Z06, McLaren 750S, Toyota GR Yaris, BMW M4 CS, Ariel Nomad 2, Audi RS6 GT, Range Rover Sport SV, Porsche 911 GTS, Aston Martin Vantage, and the Auto Union Type 52.

Top Gear Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief, Jack Rix, provides us with all the details on these cars, but in the end, only one will be crowned as our Performance Car of the Year. Be sure to grab a copy of the magazine to discover which one that is!

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00:00 Intro
02:18 Auto Union Type 52
03:20 McLaren 750S
04:02 Porsche 911 S/T
05:00 Toyota GR Yaris
05:59 Range Rover Sport SV
06:57 Porsche 911 GTS
08:00 Aston Martin Vantage
08:59 Corvette Z06
10:01 Ariel Nomad 2
11:07 BMW M4 CS
11:55 Audi RS6 GT
12:57 Aston Martin Valkyrie

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