>>>But then I've never been a big Camaro fan, having cut my driving teeth on Pontiac Big Iron.
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>>REAL sports cars are NOT made in the US. ;)
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>I agree, but let that stay between you and me. :-)

30 years ago total ACK. But around early nineties US cars started to receive some TLC besides in the engine area -
I guess because cars like the Nissan ZX (at lleast in the later versions)
were nearer to german cars in handling than to US muscle cars and had great HP/price ratios as well.
firecrackers like the GT-R get better, so you'd be surprized at the level US sports cars had to reach
to stay in biz even at the lower side of high performance sports cars.

>Personally I have a 1993 BMW 840Ci, one of the prettiest German cars ever built.

pretty for sure, and solid as well - but I'd classify that one more with GT than sports cars.
Day-2-Day use or planning to grow an oldtimer ?

But today almost everywhere more common cars will be able to outperform roads and laws.
BMW M-Series or Audi RS come to mind - even the smaller ones.
You can reach "ridiculous speed" with quite a few 4cyl charged cars.

The area where latter day Vettes or Mustangs will get dangerous is different from a Porsche,
but they will snuff your car and almost everything older than 2000 and cheaper than 250K$ back then,
on race track and german Autobahn. Including 911 from back then - at least if they were non-all-wheel-drives.

Even in germany it is hard today to floor the pedal even in a 150HP car for longer stretches -
and those will also reach 220 - 230km/H. Speaking as one who likes to drive fast and own
a car able to go a tiny bit above the often factory induced 250km/H barrier.

regards

thomas