4 Sports Cars You Can Now Buy For Around £10k

Thanks to the wonders of depreciation, these sports cars are now skirting around the tempting £10,000 mark
4 Sports Cars You Can Now Buy For Around £10k

Toyota GT86

4 Sports Cars You Can Now Buy For Around £10k

Let’s kick things off with a CT favourite: the Toyota GT86. Yes, it’s not that powerful with ‘just’ 197bhp available from its N/A boxer engine, but as far as a pure, entertaining sports cars go, there’s little else to rival it for the cash on the new car market right now. And besides, if you get a used one you can use the cash you saved on a supercharger conversion.

We did find an automatic for £11,000, but spend a grand or so more and you’ll be able to get a manual. A BRZ is also an option, but there aren’t anywhere near as many around, and the starting price seems to be a tad higher.

BMW Z4 (E89)

4 Sports Cars You Can Now Buy For Around £10k

Compared to the old E85, BMW moved this generation of Z4 more into cruiser territory, giving it softer handling and a folding hard top roof. Not necessarily a bad thing, and if you aren’t into flinging cars down your nearest B road as quickly as possible, you’ll find a lot to like about the comfy, pretty second-gen Z4.

Our hypothetical £10k budget will snare you the 2.5-litre ‘23i’, but if you want the twin-turbo N54-powered 35i and its muscular 306bhp output, you’ll need more like £15k. Sitting somewhere in between is the 30i, packing a silky-smooth ‘N52’ naturally aspirated straight-six with 258bhp on offer.

Audi TT S

4 Sports Cars You Can Now Buy For Around £10k

Fancy something with an extra pair of driven wheels? Take a look at the second-generation Audi TT S. You can now pick up a high-mileage TT S for under £10k, while adding £1000-2000 to the kitty will get you a less leggy example.

The 2.0-litre turbocharged four-pot under the bonnet develops 268bhp, which is sent out to all four wheels. 0-62mph meanwhile takes just over five seconds.

Sure, this is the kind of four-wheel drive car that heavily favours the front wheels (this is related to a VW Golf, remember), but as a performance car that’ll be a seriously quick point-to-point however crappy the conditions, it’s seriously tempting.

Porsche Cayman (987)

4 Sports Cars You Can Now Buy For Around £10k

Petrolheads all around the world must be on Cayman depreciation watch right now. Values of the earliest 2.7-litre cars are edging closer to £10,000, with multiple examples sitting in the classifieds for just under £12,000.

However, if we were going for one, we’d do it properly and spend a little more for a lower mileage 3.4-litre ‘S’. The 295bhp flat-six gets the S from 0-62mph in a respectable 5.4 seconds, all while belting out the kind of soundtrack that’d make the gruff new four-pot 718 Cayman rather jealous.

More importantly, this is one sweet handling little package, with a well-balanced mid-engine chassis and (sorry Audi) drive going to the correct wheels.

What other depreciating cars have you spotted nearing the £10k mark?

Comments

Joshua Lue

Or you can buy Phil for £10k

oh sorry £10

12/12/2016 - 16:49 |
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SHOTS FIRED

12/12/2016 - 16:58 |
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Savaaaage

12/12/2016 - 16:58 |
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Damn

12/12/2016 - 17:04 |
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12/12/2016 - 23:55 |
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Anonymous

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12/12/2016 - 16:53 |
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Anonymous

“ 0-62mph meanwhile takes just over two seconds”

12/12/2016 - 16:54 |
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Comfused Miata

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Mph=meters per hour?

12/12/2016 - 17:10 |
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Matt Robinson
Matt Robinson

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

It’s actually 5.2sec. So it is kinda right to say ‘just over two seconds’ :p

12/12/2016 - 17:38 |
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Sniff Petrol

That’s a seriously quick TT…

12/12/2016 - 16:56 |
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They’ve written it wrong also, its a “TTS” implies its part of the “Audi Sport” Series. e.g. S3/S5/S7… blah blah blah… whereas they’ve got TT S which is the TT S-line…. silly!

12/12/2016 - 17:08 |
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Deadpool (Cam's much sexier twin) (Official Demon Fangirl)

Nothing depreciates like a GM SUV

12/12/2016 - 16:56 |
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......

all of them still costs more than 100k here
damn

12/12/2016 - 17:00 |
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Singapore?

12/13/2016 - 08:29 |
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Anonymous

Mike brewer incoming With lots of talk about adding money to the “kitty” 😂😂

12/12/2016 - 17:09 |
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Anonymous

You’ve written it wrong also, a “TTS” implies its part of the “Audi Sport” Series. e.g. S3/S5/S7… blah blah blah… whereas they’ve got TT S which is the TT S-line…. silly!
Plus you can’t get them even close to £10k, more around 16-23k….
for £10k you can get the standard TT or the TT S-Line

12/12/2016 - 17:10 |
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Unknown

Good luck finding a TTS or Cayman for less than $15k in the US

12/12/2016 - 17:21 |
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Anonymous

Almost all of these cars are 30k£ or more here in Norway :/

12/12/2016 - 17:50 |
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Mike van Lieshout

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Yay for taxes!

12/12/2016 - 18:24 |
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Kaan Drives

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Norway is fighting with Turkey in taxes I think 😂. Same thing in here(Turkey) a used GT86/BRZ is around 25k£, new one is 40k£… For new one tax is %55, Actually, we buy another car for goverment including gas 😂

12/14/2016 - 06:03 |
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