COTW 2 - BMW Z3 M coupe

Ok here goes.

Just saw a Z3Mcoupe on the airport parking.
I know I've been rambling about cars with 4 seats to be practical, but I'm willing to make an exception for this one.

Personally I'm a big fan of the car's styling. I mean, it's a shooting break, how cool is that.
As far as propulsion goes, it's an M-car. It has 321hp from a longitudinally mounted inline 6, going straight to the rear wheels. Meaning a tail happy handling and a butter smooth engine.

As far as taxes go, this is where it gets ugly. Our Belgian laws would have me pay a yearly tax of 1200€ just to keep it on the road ... ouch.
There is no way to get this down, the smaller 3.0L is taxed 950€, which is still plenty painful.

So tax-wise the only way to have a nice fun car is for it to be a smaller engine with plenty of horsepower. Either by strapping a turbo to the engine (Impreza) or by making plenty of revs (S2000)

Guess my next COTW will arrive sooner than foreseen.

Car of the week - Celica ST205

I've recently been thinking about AWD cars.
The idea goes if you fumble a corner in an RWD car you're in a pickle. If you do the same in a AWD car you just floor it and let the gods of torsen sort it out. So AWD it is.
So I want a car with a meaning. So it has to be a WRC car. A proper one, not the 37th generation of subaru. And since I like Toyota, it has to be an ST, and the best one is the ST205.
The idea is that 245hp should be plenty, but if I ever get bored of it that 270 is a simple software update. After that, the sky is the limit.