Fuel Injection Car Of The Year Awards: PT.2: Best performance car

Hello all, and welcome to the second instalment of Fuel Injection's Car Of The Year Awards (FICOTY), and this time, it is on the category of 'the best performance car', perfect for us car nuts. The Fuel Injection Team is a group of Drivetribers who produce content about current events circulating the motor industry, as well as interviewing other fellow Drivetribe users on our official podcast. How this competition will work is that five members of the Fuel Injection team will pick a car they believe excels in that given category, along with their reasoning behind it. This year, the performance car world definitely has seen a lot, from the top speed controversy of SSC's Tuatara 330mph run after Bugatti's 304mph, as well as having the unveiling of Toyota's hotly anticipated GR Yaris homologation car. All is left after you have read the article is your vote for the car you agree should be the best performance car of the year!

The first instalment of the FICOTY is linked here.

Good luck to nominated cars below, and let the FICOTY 'best performance car' competition commence.

Hugo Taylor: Volvo S60 Polestar Engineered

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This may seem like a somewhat odd choice, but the S60 Polestar Engineered is a Volvo with just shy of 400bhp. Yes, a car that Volvo will sell you has a car which has more horsepower than a base Porsche 911, yet the Volvo is safer, more fuel efficient and so much more practical than the Porsche 911.

Leila Lopez Marks: Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+

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It broke the 300mph barrier. Enough said.

Mason Bloom: Aston Martin Vantage

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The Vantage is without a doubt the best supercar bargain. It’s Mercedes V8 that’s looked down by enthusiasts that rumbles louder than almost any other car I’ve seen in person. It drives wonderfully (if you remember, I drove and reviewed one), is super luxurious, yet is perfectly capable on a track. Plus, it looks fabulous with it's ducktail spoiler and a well executed grille.

Max K and Daman Matharu: Toyota GR Yaris

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Max K: A wild card this, bearing a nameplate that is often associated with the go-to recommended car in your local retirement home, only that this particular variant of it is packing a race-proven-championship-winning AWD system underneath its massively flared 3-door body, paired to the most powerful production 3-cylinder engine that comes with Toyota durability as standard. And most importantly, without a ridiculous (yet still expensive) price tag.

Daman Matharu: It’s a proper pocket rocket, and the return of homologation-esque special models. It looks nice, it has a manual gearbox, it squeezes over 200hp out of a tiny 3 cylinder. Yes, if you think of it as a little hot hatch, it is expensive, but if you look at it as a diet-sized Evolution successor, which it very much could be. It’s worth every penny.