The most entertaining car I've ever driven on the road was this:
I paid £800 for it with T&T. Was lowered, had twin calipers on the front, a few other tweaks. Weighed about 1000kg. Made about 130bhp and sounded fantastic - still the loudest induction roar I've come across.
It just felt so utterly alive and responded instantly to ever input. It had manual steering, decent brakes, stiff suspension, was rear-wheel drive and it took a licking and kept on ticking. I eventually blew the headgasket after running it hard at 7000rpm for too long but it still kept driving.
I pulled the head off it in the end, after motoring around with it boiling over all the time for a few weeks, and set about repairing it. Skimmed the head, serviced it all, painted it satin black in a shed while it was minus 12, then eventually sold it. It didn't cost me very much, even once I'd fixed it, and it did everything well.
It went on to be a track car, where it overtook the likes of Boxsters and so on with ease.
Anyway, in short, it was just great fun because I didn't care about it and you could drive it on the limit at public speeds and really feel involved. It proved infinitely more entertaining than cars with four times the horsepower, in a lot of cases, or 60-80 times the value. You can only really go so fast anyway and not feel like you're about to get royally screwed. Or kill someone.
(should have left the bumpers off it)
It's still going today; it's been restored from the ground up and now looks absolutely stunning - it's gloss black now
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