Gauntlet cast. Gantlet to be Run, then -

Front-wheel drive might be cheap, but it's crap.

Do you often tease the local Christians with upside-down crucifixes in that 12th bottle of Bletchley Extra-Dark?

I Loves glittering chestnuts like That. OOooooh .oO0Oo.
Or, to quote a Famous Orator of the Age, Bring. It. On..!

Ya wants tight twisties? - then beyond other considerations will be:
short wheelbase, with merely the boring checklist which creates decent 'handling', quite a number of ways.

Ya wants straight line Fast? - start with decent airflow shape coefficient,
plug in lots of
HP = 1.21 [MV]/t
and adjust to velocity desired.
Ho hum - Railton Special meets the 123 mph 125cc Lambretta
streamlined 'scooter' of ~'52. (MUCH faster.. later)

Ah but.. If what ya want is civilized transport,
effortless cruise beyond the Ton
(while still able to enjoy Nakarikov on the Cee Dee ~~ in-between playing boy racer ~~ in the swoops),
+ near enough theoretical-G braking and adequate control through swervery
== commensurate with a longish wheelbase:
Then: your Apples/Uglis nonsense converges on the idea of
-->\ufffd a GT.

A Gran Turismo
(and not just the plastic boot-tag on some cheesy Pontiac barge: the idea they stole the badger from.)

So, what's it gonna be, Punk?
(did I fire 5? or 6 rounds ..) Are ya feelin Lucky? ..Punk?

Swervery? Straight line? Civilized with a proper blend? ___ Other?

Now, on *this* edge of (a different and Bigger Pond) we calls yer over-hyped Yuppie Canoes, Boring Marin Wheels. For cause.

[Marin County, a stoned-throw from here: where new Styles in conspicuous consumption are clawed out of the piles of (gold dust in congealed Grand Marnier) every day:
the archetype for nothing-exceeds-like-excess.
Say, a BMW UAV? with mink seatcovers over the ex-Ricardo Montalban Cor-dob-an leather]

ie Mine's Cheaper (well, it was 8 yo when I got it - and still mint, and, based on adequate data -- it is very likely capable of 300K US-miles before retirement / any major thing like engine/trans rebuild == 2/3 to go..)

My Acura Plutocrat (Maybe Honda Inspire? in the hinterlands) will 0ut-GT Yours.
Oh, though incidentally - Mine's Bigger.
But just on the inside/outside: it drives impressively small-sized.

Health of My kidneys, liver, serenity-at-end of Long-day @ 90-110 - will exceed Thine.

And all with a mere 2.5 L, 5 cylinders and 28 mi/US gal if kept under 80ish/130 kph.
Top end (limiter) ~ 132/220 kph; a bit more, sans. ie

RWD is.. just.. so Fashionably \ufffd Retro \ufffd .. donchaknow?
Like, say, The New Mustang? - cha cha cha