Ford GT v Porsche 911 GT2 RS v Mercedes-AMG GT R v Lotus Exige Cup | evo LEADERBOARD

there can be few other places on earth we'd rather find ourselves when presented with a collection of frontline supercars a mission to find out which is the quickest against the clock and a couple of days on which to establish just that welcome to Anglesey specifically to the coastal circuit which we believe to be one of the best tracks anywhere in the UK for comparing cars such as these our lineup is pretty mouth-watering and is nothing if not disparate in its range of content at the bottom of the tree financially at least is the 100 grand Lotus Exige cup 430 type 25 one of the most radical version as yet on a theme pioneered by the humble and Lee's way back in 1996 next up from this is the mighty mercedes-amg GT off with 577 bhp a mostly carbon fiber body shell and a price tag of a hundred and fifty grand to match and then there are the two big fellas the new 700 horsepower 911 gt2 RS and the already well-established 216 Mulliner Ford GT the gt2 is the newest and most powerful car of the quartet while the Lotus is the cheapest and least potent but also the lightest at a whisker under 1,100 kilograms the Ford as you'll know is essentially LeMond racer for the road the carbon carbon tub at its core and an aerodynamic package that should provide it with immense grip here even if the relatively tight and twisty confines of the coastal circuit might not be as perfect hunting the AMG much like the other three to be fair is also a thinly disguised race in the moment that's been legalized for ages despite being made mostly from carbon fibre the twin-turbo v8 a of genes the heaviest car here by over a hundred kilograms but as we've discovered in the past its dark holes the GTR especially when there are stop watches involved it's the one we drive first in the search for equality all the Ford cars were fitted with Michelin Pilot Sport cup 2 tires by the way in a way the am GTRs a bit of a misfit in this group because obviously it's the only one that's front engine and rear drive which makes it fundamentally feel very different from the mid and rear engine Carlsberg it's so focused this thing it feels completely like any other version of the Mercedes GT it's just the moment you get in it the moment you started moving it you can feel just for how serious it is the suspension movement is just super firm but beautifully controlled the steering feels pretty much like a competition car steering very very precise I just love the feel through the rim as well it's a bit down on horsepower compared with the gt2 and the GT for GT 577 bhp from the four litre twin-turbo v8 the AMG GT RS it's one of these cars that seems to over deliver on the sum of its parts it stops and feels more agile than the weight of 1600 plus kilograms suggests that it should it feels faster in a straight line the thin that you think it would with quote-unquote only 577 horsepower it's gearbox obviously the dual clutch but it just works so beautifully so quickly and then in the GTRs case you've got this fabulously naughty button which is a 10 stage traction control system it's eight stages which means you can just die exactly the conditions it's totally dry today so I think I'm going to go out but it's a real trick that I love it okay let's see just how quick the AMG GT r is I think it's going to be pretty rapid [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] as predicted the AMG set a blisteringly quick benchmark lap time but next up is the Lotus could its lack of weight counter its lack of horsepower beside the others [Music] [Applause] [Music] the Lotus is definitely the minnow in this group I mean all right it costs a hundred thousand pounds very nearly which is an awful lot of money for a car that started live in 1996 as the Lotus Exige but this has come an awful long way since then is it no really that's not fair 6-speed manual gearbox which is actually really quite nice around here because this Najeeb it up at the top a PDK gearbox is dual clutch gearboxes are our love lever there's still something quite nice about healing and towing or for a downshift and having that much control and knowing if you get it wrong is totally your fault anyway a fabulous noise as you can hear it also just feels what it is so much lighter smaller and more nimble than the others and yet because it's on exactly the same tires he's cut two tires it's got outrageous amounts of grip so even though it's got a massive amount of horsepower for a little car like this which weighs just a smidgen over a ton it actually been nothing to do with more oak that's how much grip it's got steering absolutely no power steering so low to mid corner quite heavily actually it feels a little bit cumbersome this theory but it's really loaded up in a corner like that [Music] it's properly quick though the Lotus I think it's going to do quite naughty lap time around here even though it's hugely the underdog of this group [Music] stopped brilliantly and that's the lack of weight three four 600 kilograms in the case of the Lotus versus the am GTR difference that makes so much difference in the stopping zones you can just pile up two things pile up two corners in the Lotus and just stamp on the brakes at the last minute turning and it just it just goes where you want it to okay time to put the crash helmet on and get the stopwatch out [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] not quite was the answer to that and in the end it was the exes less than brilliant gearbox and its outright lack of straight-line muscle that saw it get beaten by the AMG by such a clear margin so then it was time to swallow a brave pill and see how quick the Ford GT would go round Anglesey it just feels like such a serious car the moment you climb into it before GT I mean the interior is not the most beautiful or exotic place in which to find yourself among the supercar elite but it is totally functional [Music] it's really noisy as well on the move not just from the motor and the exhaust the suspension is noisy too these huge cup two tires just pick up any little bits of grain and fire them into the wheel arches I think they're probably here and it just feels exactly like what it is which is basically a L'Amour car with a set of number plates on it and a slightly civilized interior as a result it just feels totally at home the moment he takes the track perhaps not at its absolute best on this track Anglesey because the Ford GT has all sorts of qualities as a has a kind of road going racer but you know it's really quick 647 horsepower it's topped beautifully it's light it changes gear brilliantly but the thing that probably defines it more than anything else is its Aero it's got some proper aerodynamic grip this car and unfortunately there are only a couple of corners where that really comes into its own Anglesey and the rest of them it actually feels that little bit too big for this circuit I mean it's got masses of grip even in the slow stuff you just need a bit more space in which to operate then you get here so I just I'm not I'm not sure it's gonna absolutely murder the lap time around here it's gonna be fast of course it is but just how fast I don't know but we are about to find out [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] to be honest the GT felt just a bit too big for Anglesey its arrow couldn't really get into its stride anywhere around the lab to make a big difference and it lacked the agility of the AMG through the tightest sections which is why it lost out to the GTR overall final question with the gt2 RS also proved too much of a handful to be the AMG's type what it just blitz the lot of them around Anglesey its proper monster of a car the gt2 RS I mean II just look at it from a hundred yards away but ideally from about ten yards away and it just it's just scary it's got so many slats and holes that you can cut yourself off and actually it doesn't feel like that from behind the wheel it just did I feels like a regular line and it was quite honest until you go like that and then your whole world just sort of starts to disappear out the back of your head 700 horsepower you are as God and it puts all of that as I'm sure you know through the rear wheels so it's a bit lively when you put your foot down it weighs less than 15 under kilograms this car as well just bear that in mind 700 horsepower less than 1500 kilograms it's all getting a bit potty in the land of the fast 911 but you know what you look at the numbers on paper and you think well that is just going to be an after madman of a car no question and then you start to drive it and then you think well do you know what somehow the magician's at Porsche have managed to produce a car that is insanely fast yes but it's also quite friendly maybe but once you have got some temperature in the front tires you can do that kind of stuff in it without really requiring much skill you just need a bit of confidence that it's not just gonna turn right round obviously that is not the quickest way to drive it and obviously the gt2 RS easy phenomenally quick the best way to get the best out of it though is actually to calm down and just use the grip it has manage the slight amount of understeer that it suffers from come on to you when you get proper heat into the cut two tires at the front of this thing it's kind of stuck at the front and stuck at the back as well but it's all about how soon you can get on the power and how much of its power you can use and then once you've got that bit sussed do the seatbelts up a bit turn in at some outrageous speed that you think is never gonna work and it just sticks there's none of this old 911 movement of weight at the back just feels planted and then you come to a braking area and everything changes again because it just stops sort of six months this car it really does then there's the PDK gearbox which is utterly brilliant then it's the way it sounds this is second gear I mean for heaven's sake [Music] just brilliant just brilliant all the poor titties I think personally I prefer the gt3 overall because this thing is such a lunatic but there is no question that this thing is going to be faster than the gt3 around here so I guess it's time to put the lid on get the stopwatch out and find out [Music] [Music] a [Music] [Music] [Music] and so there's your answer the gt2 tore its way around the coastal circuit in just one minute 12 seconds dead even managing to beat the time we set in a 9 1 8 spider on this same track in the process so it was a conclusive victory for the Porsche a surprisingly strong showing from the AMG a decent effort by the Lotus and maybe a circuit to move on from and forget about for the Ford GT some car is the gt2 RS be that at the Nurburgring at Anglesey or pretty much anywhere really so cheers for watching and thank you to everyone at Anglesey and all the manufacturers involved for their support in making this film you [Music]

Channel: EVO

Views: 1,122,282

Rating: 4.8413391 out of 5

Keywords: ford, ford GT, porsche, porsche 911 GT2 RS, Mercedes AMG GT, mercedes-amg, lotus exige, lotus, lotus exige cup, supercars, evo, evo magazine, track battle, evo leaderboard, lap times, fast lap, car review, group test, premium

Id: Wsv4u2rwj0c

Length: 20min 12sec (1212 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 18 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/butt_toucher_95]

think Evo make my favorite car vids now.. feels like a clip from old-top gear. I think I also just like an English person talking at me about cars..

[u/y1i]

pretty obvious that the Porsche 911 GT2 RS would come out on top in this very uneven field. It's an incredible machine, the way they're able to put the power down so consistently and in a manageble fashion is just an achievement in itself. There has to be some proper engineering magic in this car.

However, it's an unattainable dream car. You won't ever be able to own one, production is/was very limited and sold out already, and most units will sit in the garage as a financial investment.

[u/lost_in_life_34]

The AMG was a nice ride

[u/WriterDave]

Probably not surprising coming from an S2000 owner, but I'm drooling over the Lotus...as I always am after these kinds of videos.

Yeah, the other 3 cars are lusty and proper poster cars, but should my PowerBall dreams ever hit, I think I'd point myself toward the simple pleasure of a lightweight, nimble, manageable (MANUAL) track toy instead of the other bruisers it was up against.

Great vid.

[u/offtheboat]

They open up with Angelsey being the best track in the UK for comparing “cars like these” and then say it was too tight and not “fast enough” for ford GT’s aero to work. So which one is it?

[u/jaydeeEx]

The original Ford GT got beat around a track by cars half it's price and so did the new one, whack.

[u/cadomski]

I wish more competition reviews put the cars on the same tires like this.

[u/ewokslikebacon]

I think it's important to note and praise that they did a comparison review where the same tires are used in all the vehicles. A small but important detail.

[u/Oliveiraz33]

I wasn't expecting Ford GT to be beaten by the Mercedes with 73hp less