Ned Jasper is back, and he’s picked out the best new cars we’ve seen during 2017. You might well be surprised by what takes the top honours!
Those of you who are regular readers of EngageSportMode will know that it has become somewhat of a tradition that each year at roughly this time, I take a look back through the years motoring new arrivals, and pick a select few to be crowned the best new cars of the year.
This year, however, there’s a slight problem with that. As, over the last 12 months or so, the only car I’ve actually had the chance to write about is the Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo. Now the Panamera is an awesome machine, and undoubtedly one of the coolest cars to be released in 2017, being that it is both a Porsche and an estate. But it would end up being a rather short list. Luckily for me, Editor John has been busy this year, so I’ll be pinching a some of the cars he’s written about. Plus I’ll add in one or two extras. Right, let’s get started, shall we"
7. Tesla Roadster
Elon Musk snuck in this little beast at the end of his Semi-truck presentation last month, and although it may have looked like an afterthought there, the engineering that’s behind it all certainly isn’t.
This is the car you want in a game of top trumps. Headline figures are as follows: 0-60mph in just 1.9 seconds – that will make it the quickest production car on the planet. It then goes on to run a 1/4-mile in 8.8 secon...