So we did there.

Anyway, before we get to the important business of melting some tires, I thought you might want to meet the contenders.

We've got 15 incredible cars this year proper Motley Crue.

We start with this one.

This is Aston at its very best.

The DBS Super Ladera Volante excess all areas so so beautiful.

This car under their 5.2 liter V 12 Twin Turbo 715 horsepower.

This called 211 miles an hour with the roof down.

That's right.

Moving on to something a bit more every day.

We love the three cent of Fiesta Rusty.

In fact, it's our reigning car of the year 2018 and this is its bigger brother.

The Focus SD.

Now this has always lived a bit in the shadow of the focus RS.

But this one is a bit more serious.

276 horsepower de tuned version of the old Focus RS is 2.3 litre.

Eco boost should be plenty of power to give this talented chassis work out.

Could be a dark horse that What do we have down here?

This is getting a bit serious a bit quickly, isn't it?

Look the Mercedes AMG GT R pro.

Now, if the word pro sounds a bit nerdy, that's because it is.

This is basically a 200 grand track focus version of Mercedes track focused supercar.

25 kilograms lighter.

It's got adjustable coil over suspension.

Maur.

Aargh!

No more power on, apparently seven seconds quicker than the GT R around the Nurburgring.

More importantly, though, it looks seven times meaner than anything else here.

Moving on now this.

Now this is very special indeed.

The Porsche 935 What is it?

Well, a single seater Nana Moloch Gators race car is the headline, but really, this is based on a lie 11 GT two RS Club sport, and on top of that is draped this incredible retro, a road up carbon Kevlar body work.

It's just a thing of utter beauty.

The cynic in me wants to say, Yeah, it's just a duty to rs draped in some fancy clothes, but actually, I'm told I haven't driven it yet.

This is a lot more hardcore.

A lot more focus on that look slick tyres.

This is a serious, serious track only race car moving around here.

The Mercedes AMG a 45 s now to call this thing.

Ah, hot hatch isn't quite right.

Really.

Hyper hatch is more fitting because AMG have managed to squeeze 415 horsepower from a two litre turbo.

Still do not 16 under four seconds 167 miles an hour.

This thing it is very, very fast indeed.

And they've included something called a drift mode bit like the old focus RS, so it doesn't disengage the front drive shots.

It just sends a low to talk to.

The back axle on overwhelms the outside rear wheel so you can get a bit of oversteer with the safety net of four wheel drive pulling you straight.

That's the theory, at least, and you're probably thinking, Hang on a minute.

What is a two and 1/2 ton, two litre diesel pickup truck doing a performance car test Well, yeah, I get where you're coming from, but this is the Ranger rapture.

Basically, what four have done is taken the F 1 50 rafter, which is massive and only sold in America and make him or European ized version with a diesel engine.

But it's still got all the good bits so folks race for shocks under their Fox racing suspension.

It's got a bar harr mode, which is what you want to select when you want to do a bit of brain out off roading.

And as luck would have it, we do have on off road course here.

So we should be having some fun in this on the track, Not quite sure what's gonna happen.

I'll give it a wide berth of others.

You coming down here?

All right, well, we'll go over here in the middle, The Ariel atom.

Now you're gonna have to take my word for it.

But this is on all new aerial atom, and the key is back here because it's still got 100 engine.

But this one is a two litre turbo from the latest civic type R.

It's got up to 320 horsepower masses and masses of power.

This thing because they had Thio redesign the whole rear end of this car.

They thought, Why not?

Let's go through the whole thing and make the whole lot of it knew it is slightly heavier.

It's slightly more grown up, but it's not really that growing up is.

It's still a scaffolding pole on wheels.

It's got a better power to weight ratio than a Bugatti Chiron Still a mental thing.

Speaking of mental.

Now let's forget for a moment that this cost £150,000.

Put out your mind.

Let's focus instead on the fact that this is a near 600 horsepower, 200 mile an hour, four wheel drive jag you a saloon.

The project eight, of course, slightly disappointed that this poor expect.

They've just released that which is basically delete the rear wing four seats.

They're only making 15 of them so much call a bit.

You know what?

It's not a bad life will make do with this one.

You better come and get a good look at this because this is the high and I I 20 Coop W R C.

The actual W R.

C.

Car 380 horsepower from a 1.6 turbo on utter, psychopathic car.

This thing was running around the track earlier, and it's pretty much the loudest car I've ever heard in my entire life.

We got it set up gravel speck here so it's ready to monster the offer.

Of course, we've got here reporter mouth, but also it's absolutely hilarious around the track.

Four wheel drifting everywhere on honor and a pleasure toe.

Have this in attendance.

What do we have here?

The Tesla Model three performance.

The darling of the E V world, of course.

Massively, quick in a straight line.

We know it's pretty damn quick around the track as well.

But the question is, Is that performance repeatable on dhe, if you put it in track, mode will actually drift.

Questions.

Whatever you do, Jack, don't mention BMW's M four.

I'm not gonna mention promise, because this is not a BMW.

It's the new toy to Super 335 horsepower in line six engine, rear wheel drive, two seats.

The return of a legend and I suspect the charity of choice for Aspiring drifted have been after 1 80 for this one back up in the big boys leagues.

Only this is the McCarran 7 20 year.

Spied essentially, yes, A 7 20 s coupe A without a roof.

It is 49 kilograms heavier than the coupe.

It's sent windier than the coupe A.

But listen, the Cooper had pace and agility.

Despair, So this thing without a roof should be even more of an event.

Speaking of events, this is quite possibly the most hardcore hardcore hatch there has ever seen.

The new Renno McGann RS trophy are basically very, very fast around the Nurburgring.

The front will drive lap record holder and very, very uncomfortable everywhere else.

And there's something that I think we need to whisper about this car with all the bits on it.

They call £72,000 Hot hatch, Bob, check out carbon wheels, carbon ceramic brakes, no back seats, basically a bargain.

Ladies and gentlemen, we are in the presence of greatness.

This is the VW idee are the record holder, Pikes Peak, the fastest car ever up the Goodwood Hill climb and the second fastest car ever around the Nurburgring.

With the not too shabby time of just over six minutes.

This thing.

What is it?

670 horsepower.

So so much talk.

But it only weighs 1100 kilos.

That's pretty much a Renno al peen.

Give or take a large sandwich.

It's just utter violence every time you stand on the doctor when I can't actually believe that we convince them to bring it along.

This car is the torchbearer, the electric revolution.

And last but not least, we have the Portia came in 7 18 gt four.

We're gonna ignore those numbers 7 18 because for us, that represents the four cylinder engine that we don't like very much.

But this is the GT for the new GT four on The question with this car is can Portia improve on perfection?

We love the last model so, so much.

It is our kind of car, if I'm honest.

Four litre, naturally aspirated.

Flat 6 414 horsepower, 8000 rpm manual gearbox Suits.

You, sir Have to say an early contender for the title.

So that's it.

Those are the cars of PICO t 2019.

How on earth we're gonna pick a podium from all that lot?

I'm not sure, but that's the beauty of tests on this scale, isn't it?

Leave your preconceptions at the door.

Just go out and drive the things on the cream will rise to the top.

What?

A set of cars doesn't get a lot better than that.