4 Sports Cars You Can Now Buy For Around £10k
Toyota GT86
Let’s kick things off with a CT favourite: the Toyota GT86. Yes, it’s not that powerful with ‘just’ 197bhp available from its N/A boxer engine, but as far as a pure, entertaining sports cars go, there’s little else to rival it for the cash on the new car market right now. And besides, if you get a used one you can use the cash you saved on a supercharger conversion.
We did find an automatic for £11,000, but spend a grand or so more and you’ll be able to get a manual. A BRZ is also an option, but there aren’t anywhere near as many around, and the starting price seems to be a tad higher.
BMW Z4 (E89)
Compared to the old E85, BMW moved this generation of Z4 more into cruiser territory, giving it softer handling and a folding hard top roof. Not necessarily a bad thing, and if you aren’t into flinging cars down your nearest B road as quickly as possible, you’ll find a lot to like about the comfy, pretty second-gen Z4.
Our hypothetical £10k budget will snare you the 2.5-litre ‘23i’, but if you want the twin-turbo N54-powered 35i and its muscular 306bhp output, you’ll need more like £15k. Sitting somewhere in between is the 30i, packing a silky-smooth ‘N52’ naturally aspirated straight-six with 258bhp on offer.
Audi TT S
Fancy something with an extra pair of driven wheels? Take a look at the second-generation Audi TT S. You can now pick up a high-mileage TT S for under £10k, while adding £1000-2000 to the kitty will get you a less leggy example.
The 2.0-litre turbocharged four-pot under the bonnet develops 268bhp, which is sent out to all four wheels. 0-62mph meanwhile takes just over five seconds.
Sure, this is the kind of four-wheel drive car that heavily favours the front wheels (this is related to a VW Golf, remember), but as a performance car that’ll be a seriously quick point-to-point however crappy the conditions, it’s seriously tempting.
Porsche Cayman (987)
Petrolheads all around the world must be on Cayman depreciation watch right now. Values of the earliest 2.7-litre cars are edging closer to £10,000, with multiple examples sitting in the classifieds for just under £12,000.
However, if we were going for one, we’d do it properly and spend a little more for a lower mileage 3.4-litre ‘S’. The 295bhp flat-six gets the S from 0-62mph in a respectable 5.4 seconds, all while belting out the kind of soundtrack that’d make the gruff new four-pot 718 Cayman rather jealous.
More importantly, this is one sweet handling little package, with a well-balanced mid-engine chassis and (sorry Audi) drive going to the correct wheels.
What other depreciating cars have you spotted nearing the £10k mark?
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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Or you can buy Phil for £10k
oh sorry £10
Alex Kersten savage level: over 9000
SHOTS FIRED
Savaaaage
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“ 0-62mph meanwhile takes just over two seconds”
Mph=meters per hour?
It’s actually 5.2sec. So it is kinda right to say ‘just over two seconds’ :p
That’s a seriously quick TT…
They’ve written it wrong also, its a “TTS” implies its part of the “Audi Sport” Series. e.g. S3/S5/S7… blah blah blah… whereas they’ve got TT S which is the TT S-line…. silly!
Nothing depreciates like a GM SUV
all of them still costs more than 100k here
damn
Singapore?
Mike brewer incoming With lots of talk about adding money to the “kitty” 😂😂
You’ve written it wrong also, a “TTS” implies its part of the “Audi Sport” Series. e.g. S3/S5/S7… blah blah blah… whereas they’ve got TT S which is the TT S-line…. silly!
Plus you can’t get them even close to £10k, more around 16-23k….
for £10k you can get the standard TT or the TT S-Line
Not trying to be clever or anything like that but this tts is £10695, if you look on auto trader there is quite a few under or around this mark. I have been looking at tjem recently hence why i know. http://www.kellystradings.co.uk/used-cars/audi-tts-2-0-tfsi-quattro-3dr-chichester-201608086614412?at_source=autotrader&at_medium=android-app&at_campaign=website-visit
Good luck finding a TTS or Cayman for less than $15k in the US
Almost all of these cars are 30k£ or more here in Norway :/
Yay for taxes!
Norway is fighting with Turkey in taxes I think 😂. Same thing in here(Turkey) a used GT86/BRZ is around 25k£, new one is 40k£… For new one tax is %55, Actually, we buy another car for goverment including gas 😂