The world of performance car hire is so vastly wide open full of a variety of high specification automobiles that you might get spoilt for choice. Starting with your top of the range, modern exotic performance car hire manufacturers such as Lamborghini and Ferrari, to the Japanese legends of the 90’s, stretching further back to the start of the 60’s when the American Muscle car was king. When choosing a performance car you need to weigh up the pro’s and cons of each, as they types of cars are not your everyday runabouts.

Lamborghini, Ferrari, Aston Martin, Bentley, Porsche and Mercedes are just a few names that pop to mind when you think of performance car hire. These are status cars that we can only dream off, or hire for the day, or even hire for the weekend. Imagine hiring an Aston Martin on a nice summer’s weekend, as if you were James Bond. The cost though to own an exotic is very expensive, in all terms from buying, maintaining and repairing to just running. Despite being a status performance car hire, this breed of supercars are not for the faint of heart, with acceleration speeds of 0-60 in the bracket of sub 5 seconds. Top speeds can reach 150mph plus, with restrictions applied to prevent them from going even faster.

The Japanese Supercar craze was in full flight in the 90’s with Nissan, Mazda, Misitubishi and Toyota producing cars that would equal or even better the performance of the exotics with some tuning at a fraction of the cost. Performance car hire with these brands of supercars can be very rewarding. Japanese performance cars get imported all over the world, to Europe and America due to the rising cost of running them a huge number have been flooded into other continental car markets. Still popular today is the Nissan Skyline, the Twin Turbo Toyota Supra and the Misitubishi Evo Lancer. Not only can these cars have the speed and acceleration to challenge an exotic, Japanese performance car hire can handle the road like as if it were stuck to the road with glue. Having the right combination of tyres and suspension makes them an ideal track or drift vehicle for performance car hire.

Dating back to America in the 1960’s, the performance car hire that is muscle cars have turned into collector items today. Some of these cars have turned to house hold names thanks to the Hollywood movie business include the Ford Mustang (Bullet), Shelby GT500 (Gone in 60 seconds), Dodge Charger (Blade, Dukes of Hazards, The Fast and the Furious), Pontiac Trans AM Firebird (Smokey and the Bandit) and the Dodge Challenger (Vanishing Point). These cars were designed for drag racing and go fast in one direction only, straight forward! The cornering on these cars is so bad that the European muscle performance car hire enthusiast will address this and rectify.

When considering performance car hire you need to be aware that these cars drink petrol at an astonishing rate, achieving as little as 6mpg to 18mpg tops. Their handling can vary depending on the type of supercar you choose, with Muscles cars being worst, and modified Japanese automobiles have a reputation for track day use sticking to the “road like rails”. All breed of supercar can achieve high speeds depending on the level of modification done, with Exotics coming out the factory standard with a lot more bhp than its rival types, such to compare to a stock Japanese Nissan Skyline. However, it is cheaper to buy a stock Skyline and get more power out of it than a stock Ferrari, compared to actually buying the Ferrari.