Top 15 Affordable Sports Cars of the 80s
Dodge/Chrysler Daytona
Despite being derived from Chrysler’s modest K-car platform, the Daytona offered good performance in its most sporting variants. Sold in Canada as the Dodge Daytona and Chrysler Laser from 1984, it simply became the Chrysler Daytona in 1986. True, it was equipped with underwhelming 2.2-litre and 2.5-litre engines, but the turbocharged 2.2L four did end up producing as much as 174 hp in the Shelby Z edition. A 3.0-litre Mitsubishi-sourced V6 as well as a 224-horsepower turbocharged four were also available in the early 90s in the Daytona IROC and R/T variants.