First off, we need to define "best handling".
Is it the highest cornering speed? Corner entry speed? Corner exit speed? Steering response? Stock trim only? How the car subjectively "feels"? Are we equalizing tire compounds? Sizes?
A last generation Viper ACR will decimate in more or less ALL of the above categories except perhaps subjective feel...
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Originally Posted by DarkSunrise
This question is probably beyond the scope of anyone to answer objectively on this forum for a couple of reasons:
1) You really need to put the cars on equal tires (e.g., the RX-7's OEM tires are 20 years old now and tire technology improves fast; FR-S/BRZ comes with AS/summer touring tires; Elises and Evo X's come with very aggressive street tires). I doubt anyone has tested all of these cars on equalized tires.
2) You need to test these cars in various settings -- track, street, skidpad, slalom, etc. Not many people have this depth of experience in all of these cars.
3) You need equipment to objectively measure certain attributes such as steering response, feedback, body roll, bump compliance, etc.
This is why, when you see magazines do "best handling" comparisons, they often bring in pros with proper equipment to remove some of the subjectivity from these kinds of comparison. Short of that, I would listen to the opinion of anyone who's tracked all of these cars extensively and know how they feel at the limit.
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I've tested most of these on more or less equalized tires
