Top 10 best affordable sports cars 2024

The demise of the affordable sports car has been lamented too early. Here are the best routes to fun on a budget

Dependable sources of real driver entertainment that can be procured on a real-world budget aren’t quite as easy to find as once they were, but the best affordable sports cars prove that they do still exist.

They may not be as numerous as before and many don’t seem as affordable in these inflationary times, but they exist, and they’re cars that demand to be seized and cherished.

These are Autocar’s top 10 affordable sports cars. Among them are mid-engined two-seaters, front-engined roadsters, big-engined muscle cars and lightweight specials.

The one thing they share is an affordable asking price – £50,000 or below in most cases, and quite a long way below in some - and the capacity to light up your motoring as often as the mood takes.

Some of these cars could easily serve as daily transport; for others, that would be the case only for the genuinely enthusiastic.

But every one of them delivers large for a relatively small outlay, and every one merits your attention if you love little more than an empty road and the time to simply enjoy it.

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