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There was a faction amongst our Pcoty team that argued our decisions – the younger guys who may look at cars a little differently from us geezers. They argued that not only did the wrong car win, but the top three was all wrong too. 

Before we go any further, take a look at Performance car of the year online if you have not already – click here and come back once you have done that. A lunatic fringe our young guns may well be, but their views are interesting, and this is what they said…

First and foremost, they argued that by its being there, any car should be able to win – that if we let it into this contest, it qualified to win its class and even overall, and that straight away changes the result of our Lightweight championship. We told you that the Yaris was the best small car there, that it best epitomises how an apex entry hot hatch should be – wild, visceral and emotional, never mind it being our real class performance record holder, but the lads say it wins, whether you or I can buy one in SA or not.

Then the Middleweight result. Our argumentative upstarts reckon that if one BMW were to go through, it should be the M2 Competition, not the M5 Competition and that the baby M wonder is head and shoulders above the cars it ranked against. The lads remind us that it is the most exciting car to drive of those three mid-rangers – by a country mile and that even if that other Beemer broke all our all-time records, the little one delivers better driver’s – and performance car solution…

So that would mean the M5 would not have gone through as our rules demand that we could not have had two BMWs in the last three. And that opens the door for the Subaru WRX STi Diamond Edition to go through based on its rorty nature, communicative ride and sublime Subaru symmetrical all-wheel drive ability over and above its record four-pot pace… 

All of which changes the podium completely. The lads say of that trio, the GRMN Yaris would end up second and BMW M2 Competition should have been Pcoty 2019. Sadly, for them it did not work out that way, but let’s just call M2 Competition our Alternative Performance car of the year 2019!

What do you think? Which is your personal favourite Performance car of the year? Some on – tell us – go back to that Facebook page comment on the post that brought you here…