Is the Ferrari F12 really $300,000 more fun than the Toyota GT86?

Apples and oranges in the realm of rear-wheel-drive sports cars.

Between the Ferrari F12 and Toyota GT86 (Scion FR-S or Subaru BRZ for our purposes), you're book ending the entire front engine, rear-wheel-drive sports car spectrum. Just about everything else - BMW M3, Chevy Corvette, Nissan 370Z, Ford Mustang, Jaguar F-Type - falls somewhere on a continuum between these two.

For a cost of entry of a little over $25,000 you could have a blast on your favorite back road while staying mostly under the national speed limit, but add $300,000 to that, and you'll have the laws of time and space bending to your will.

Yes, the Ferrari is incredibly quick, but pace aside, what's the cost to fun ratio for these two cars? Autocar's Matt Prior set out to answer this question at the Snetterton circuit. There are no winners or losers here, but some interesting conclusions are drawn.

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