VIDEO: DRAG RACE! What Happens When Top Gear Puts A Quick Car, A Fast Car And A Supercar together?

Every so often, someone gets a brilliant idea to put together a relatively ridiculous grouping of cars together. Then, they drag race them.

The latest group to do so is Britain's Top Gear who got together the Volkswagen Golf R, the Porsche 911 and McLaren 675LT. It should be pretty obvious who will win but, that said, there's a method to their madness.

Not only do we get to see what three different levels of performance are capable of, we see three tiers of performance that are, arguably, benchmark cars.

That said, watch the story unfold before your very eyes, below!

A hot hatch takes on a sports car... takes on a supercar! Who do you think will win?

MDarringer - 4/9/2016 7:31:17 PM

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I think there is great value in comparing disparate cars because fans of one segment may not necessarily even consider that of another segment.

For Porsche/McLaren money, I'd rather have 3-4 cheap, tasty alternatives.

The 911 and the McLaren simply do not "do it" for me and yes they are scintillating cars--I get that--but in the above group, i'd choose the Golf.

Where the Golf shines is how much performance it gives for the dollar. The Golf is not embarrassingly off the mark. It's damn good. So it begs the question as to why the Porsche and McLaren don't deliver the performance per dollar of the VW.

Loved the match up.

TomM - 4/10/2016 4:16:59 PM

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Vw can produce performance per dollar that the others cannot for two obvious reasons - 1 - the Golf cannot even be considered to be close to a premium car - it is a low level car. 2 - VW makes and sells LOTS of Golfs in various forms and can spread development costs over Hundreds of THousands of cars.

Neither McClaren nor Porsche are mass market econo-boxes - they are premium vehicles - sold in small numbers (Especially the McClaren). People who buy a McClaren are not into bragging about cost for performance - they are into pure performance and exclusivity - something that the GOLF doesn't have.

The fact is - people who claim performance per dollar simply cannot afford to actually buy the McCLaren - so dreaming of a new TVR is the best they will get.

MDarringer - 4/10/2016 5:25:28 PM

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And snobs ignore the performance/price ratio because they are snobs. Snobs slag "lesser" cars because being a snob is much more important than being coherent.

The Corvette Stingray line is a strong reason NOT to buy "premium" or "exclusive" vehicles.

Hell, the Cayman is a brilliant reason not to buy a 911.

Snobs who want exclusivity are incapable of enjoying magnificent cars such as a GT350, Stingray, or a ZL1 because they are whores to exclusivity and they abandon all reason and logic.

I absolutely adore snobs because they willingly overpay and that is always good for the seller.

MDarringer - 4/10/2016 5:42:56 PM

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And you're 100% right. I cannot afford a McLaren, but even if I could, I know I would spend that money on several cars rather than one.

The irony @TomM is that as much as you dislike me, you would love my garage which is entirely built on the premise of variety rather than all-eggs-in-one-basket exclusivity.