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Welcome to the highly anticipated MotorTrend 2019 Best Driver’s Car competition! Ride along with hosts Jonny Lieberman, Jethro Bovingdon, and SCCA Hall of Fame racecar driver Randy Pobst as they unleash 12 of this year’s hottest sports cars and supercars on the road and at the track and figure out which one’s best. Each contender must face a barrage of instrumented tests, miles of real-world driving, and blistering hot laps around world-famous WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca—all for the chance to be crowned Motor Trend’s 2019 Best Driver’s Car! This year’s worthy competitors are the Toyota Supra, McLaren Senna, Ford Mustang Shelby GT350, Porsche 911 Carrera S, Jaguar XE SV Project 8, Mercedes-AMG GT 63 S, BMW 850i xDrive, Bentley Continental GT V8, BMW M2 Competition, Aston Martin DBS Superleggera, Lamborghini Urus, and last but certainly not least—and finally!—the Dodge Challenger Hellcat Red Eye Widebody! Prepare for the high-performance showdown of the year!

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Booya! 2019 MotorTrend Best Driver’s Car

In just over 20 years, Porsche went from building its first 911s to creating the moonshot 959, replete with all-wheel drive, adjustable suspension and a turbocharged flat-six that, in race capacity, was tuned to 800 horsepower. At the offer of Porsche, who flew over two museum specimens for the occasion, Jonny Lieberman does his best to track from one 1960s icon to a legend of the 1980s.

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Porsche 901 and Porsche 959: Driving Two Game-Changing Porsches

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2020 Porsche 911 Carrera S vs. 2020 Chevrolet Corvette Z51

Pro driver Randy Pobst hot laps the 2021 Porsche 911 Turbo S around WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca for MotorTrend's 2020 Best Driver's Car presented by Tire Rack.

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2021 Porsche 911 Turbo S Hot Lap! - 2020 Best Driver's Car Contender

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New Record! 2025 Porsche Taycan Turbo GT Weissach Sets Quickest 0–60-MPH Time

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2025 Porsche 911 GTS First Drive: Hybridized Sacrilege?

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