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Are These 5 The Best Weekend Cars?
In most cases, a real enthusiast awaits the weekend as a child on Christmas morning. When you have the opportunity to drive for the sheer pleasure of doing it, maybe venturing through some long planned route, away from the city traffic and isolating yourself in your microcosm made of bends, engine revs and man-machine intimacy, everything takes a special flavor. Each car is such in its own way, but some are able to satiate the innate need to travel miles, sometimes without a precise destination, because it is what sits between A and B that matters. With one of these 5 cars, despite being so different from each other, not only will you ensure a weekend of pleasure on wheels, but strong emotions and almost certainly a new conception of the word “drive”.
Alfa Romeo 4C
We have to admit that, the little Alfa has many advantages, but also some flaws and to tell the truth is precisely this that makes it more “human”. Pushed by a small 1.750cc turbo outputting 240hp it allows you to make the most of the reduced weight of a sports car that likes to turn heads like a much more expensive supercar.
Lotus 3-Eleven
Having included the 4C, it would not have been possible to neglect Lotus, always synonymous of driving intimacy, thanks to a featherweight and the total absence of filters between driver and asphalt. However, putting aside for a moment the entry level Elise and the more powerful Exige, Lotus offers the same emotions you’d feel on a racing car with the 3-Eleven, available both with manual transmission and clutch pedal, or with a very fast sequential gearbox. No excuses, in this case you forget the landscape around you and focus on a crazy driving experience.
Morgan
You do not necessarily have to rape your hair to enjoy a weekend at the wheel and Morgan knows it well, because for over 100 years has updated a recipe that perfectly combines an elegant look with the value of those simple things: the smells, the mutter of the engine and a timeless shape, without neglecting performance, thanks to the most performing models.
Maserati GranCabrio
Continuing the argument introduced with Morgan, imagine now adding the comfort of a luxury grand tourer, the blazon of an iconic Italian brand in the middle of the steering wheel and one of the most incredible soundtracks that you can ever hear coming out of the exhaust pipes. Maserati is all this and much more, with the cabriolet version decibels increase and fun knows no limits.
Any Classic Car
We know very well, vintage cars have that little bit more, that taste of petrol mixed with oil and with the spirit of adventure and the possibility that something goes wrong before returning home. But in this case, putting your hands in the engine and getting dirty can be an added value thus making you feel part of the adventure itself and not just a simple background. Historic cars are special and should not be kept segregated in a garage, they want to be driven. In the picture, a Fiat 2300 Coupe.
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