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AUTO
BY MATT BUBBERS
THE ONE
The GT3 is the best sports car money can buy, and the contest isn’t even close. To drive it is to mainline the manna that has always made driving such a thrill — today, and since the first brave soul discovered oversteer. The GT3 Touring is the same world-beating machine without the race car costume. So, actually, that’s the best sports car money can buy. In fact, we liked it so much, we commissioned one. As you read this, the one-of-one SHARP × Porsche GT3 Touring should be shipping across the Atlantic. The last all-motor GT3? A future classic? We think so. $180,300
Best of 2021
Recapping the year in cars and looking forward to the year to come
DO YOU EVER GET A SNEAKING SUSPICION THAT SOMETHING GOOD IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN?
While the car business is in disarray — reverse mergers, monster IPOs, supply chain chaos, unbridled R&D spending — the business of being a gearhead has been pretty great recently.
In 2021, we got new EVs that feel like they’re from five years in the future, Iron Man−style augmented reality wind- shields, and some of the best driver’s cars the world has ever seen. Even your dad’s old Harley-Davidson t-shirt is cool again. Best of all: this decade is just kicking off. It’ll be one in which electric vehicles finally go mainstream and the
last generation of purely gas-powered sports cars goes out with an almighty bang. Roaring ’20s indeed.
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