Ultimate Car Question #1: What's a fuel-effecient, very quick, and very reliable sports car?

Question

Preferably one that the blokes over at TopGear would favor and under 30K new/used 5 years. The only ones I can think of right now are the Lotus Elise/Exige (Engine sourced by Toyota, so it must be reliable engine-wise), the Toyota Celica and MR2, the Mazda MX-5, Acura RSX-S and Honda Civic Si.

I think American ones are out of the question, heavy and unreliable except for the Corvette, but that 40K+. I guess you could post some German/Scandies like Volvo/BM.

Any others? And what would you suggest?

Answer 1

Mini Cooper S

Answer 2

Shelby cobra

Answer 3

fuel efficient and very quick do not go together!

Answer 4

bmw 3 series typically get decent gas mileage when youre not punching it and they are some of the best handling cars in the world