When did a cars performace take your breath away

[shobotan]

For me some of the high watermarks were when manufacturers took a leap forward in technology. The move from carbys to fuel injection, the introduction of turbocharging and all wheel drive and now electrification.
So cars that I've driven or ridden in that really impressed me, starting in the 80s with a mates HG turbocharged red motor Kingswood, carb, no intercooler, spitting out broken axles once a month. The GC8 WRX in the mid 90's and the 996 Porsche Turbo in the early 2000s. Fast forward to a mate's R35 GTR on launch control and recently a supercharged S550 Mustang.