Shelby Daytona Coupe, great overall. Great handling and speed.
Can you recommend any particular tune?
Grandma Driving’s tune “Strong A-Class” is good. I’ve just shared my own tune, which is called “A 800 Missile” to reflect the fact it’s a little more power-biased. Compared to GD’s tune, mine does the same time around Bamburgh, but is 0.6 seconds faster for Lakehurst Forest Sprint. If anyone has any recommendations for other Daytona tunes, I’d be interested to compare them against mine.
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I tried Grandma Driving’s tune today in several races. (Funnily enough I happened to randomly have them in one of the ranked team races I played today, on the opposite team. They won by a mile needless to say, completely different class to me.) I can’t decide about the Shelby. It seems to be just very slightly quicker than the GTR '02 Skyline but a lot harder to control, it’s very slidy. I did win several races with it today but I think I would have won with the Skyline too, but with less effort probably. Suffice to say the Daytona is faster in the right hands and with the right care. But it’s easier to make a mistake due to the more demanding handling.
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Definitely not Bone Shaker or the Shelby Daytona, I’m not into the meta. So my pick out of my 100 something A800 cars:
Ford Escort RS1600(For Dirt)
El Comino(Cross Country and Dirt)
any Classic Muscle with handling build(69 Camaro, Boss 302, Charger Daytona, Firebird, etc.)
ATS-V
04 STI
CRX Mugen
Monte Carlo
93 Mustang SVT
Lotus Carlton
Toureg
G63 AMG
14 Golf R
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That’s the dominant car on the A class Super Hot Hatch rivals leaderboard, so you’ll have to stop using that one 
I rarely play rival so basically I have no idea that it’s that good in super hot hatch. But in online adventure I only seen it once or twice.
Currently testing a bit on Greendale, my own tune “Speed” vs Grandma and yours.
The times are almost identical,but grandmas tune is waterproof,you can make mistakes without loosing to much time.
For online i would prefer mine or the missile(not that big difference>Handling vs Speed),for circuit and time racing,i would stick immo to Gradma,or to my own Griptune.
My personal favourites are
Subaru BRZ (by far not the best car in this class, but a lot of fun to drive if you tune it properly and its just one of my favorite cars in general)
Subaru WRX STI 2004
Subaru WRX STI 2011
Audi RS4 (B7, 2005 - 2009)
Honda S2000 (both of them, however preferable the 2003 non-CR version)
Honda NSX 1992
Nissan 370Z
Nissan 350Z (or Fairlady Z, as it is called ingame)
aaaand basically ever Nissan Skyline and Silvia
I have a Ferrari 288 GTO tune that is very competitive. Shelby Daytona is only thing that I’ve seen that beats me.
There are four cars that are faster than the Daytona on my test track. They are the Ford Escort RS1600, the MG MGB, the Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale and, of course, the Boneshaker. I think I have tunes shared for all of them except for the Boneshaker which I didn’t bother tuning myself since I don’t use it much and found a tune in the storefront that was perfect.
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I just did an unscientific test by setting times on the Lakehurst forest sprint track. This is quite a long track which has sweeping corners, tight corners and long straights, and it’s wet, so it tests every aspect of the car’s handling and performance. I did the runs consistently and cleanly. I found in the Daytona you had to be more circumspect and lift off at times when in the Skyline or Escort you didn’t have to. The Alfa was the slowest, so much so that I did another run with a different tune as it was so much off the pace. It didn’t feel very quick to drive and nor did it handle terribly well with either tune.
I appreciate on some tracks these cars will do better than on others, but this track in the wet is a good representation of what you’ll face in a typical online race, especially street races where you obviously do need to slow down and take corners properly because there are no walls to ride.
So in case it may be of interest to anyone…
Nissan Skyline '02 3:29.275
Shelby Daytona 3:30.776 (tune by Grandma Driving)
Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale 3:39.217 (OP A class)
Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale 3:35.772 (Perfect V2 by Don Joewon Song)
Ford Escort RS 1600 3:35.919
(all assists off, manual with clutch)
Alfa is way too slow in this track. Im not very good at this track and my R34 and daytona needs still some fine tuning (well R34 needs rebuild) but i anyway run R34, daytona and bone shaker
Nissan skyline 3,34
Shelby daytona 3,30
Bone shaker 3,23
Skyline really need rebuild, i have build better version for that but some reason i have tune that now totally different way. And in daytona i use stock engine so it’s bit different that grandma driving daytona. And bone shaker, why this car needs to be in game.
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Interesting, thanks for that. I had the '02 GT-R on my list to test, after seeing it used to good effect by someone in a ranked adventure. I also had wet conditions as a test to do, and have done that exhaustively for the best S2 cars, but hadn’t done it for A class. I had tested the Daytona in both dry and snow, and was stunned by how well it did in the snow, but I’ve just tried it in the wet and it suffers a lot more in the wet than it does in the snow. I had tested the '97 GT-R, and that was my 3rd fastest A class car on Lakehurst Forest Sprint in the dry, behind the Daytona and Bone Shaker.
So, I’ve just done some more tests, here are the results. Lakehurst Forest Sprint, dry time then wet time (“heavy rain” conditions)
Shelby Daytona 3:16.9 3:24.8 (my “A 800 Missile” shared tune)
Bone Shaker 3:19.0 3:19.5 (my latest tune, not shared yet)
'02 Nissan GT-R 3:20.7 3:26.3 (GTz Marple “Monkas”)
I didn’t find the '02 GT-R at all stable, what tune did you use?
The Bone Shaker’s OP nature really shows in the wet, it crushes everything else because you can use off road tyres, which is usually totally unviable for an A class road car as it leaves the car too lacking in power. For example, in the dry, my '97 GT-R tunes did 3:26 with off road tyres and 3:22 with sport tyres.
By the way, the Skyline tune I used if you want to try it is called Street V1, by Object260.
It’s crazy how much quicker the bone shaker is, I wish I could get one to try.
Thanks, I hadn’t seen this when I posted before, as I hadn’t refreshed the thread while doing my testing. Adding that to my tests:
Lakehurst Forest Sprint, dry time then wet time (“heavy rain” conditions)
Shelby Daytona 3:16.9 3:24.8 (my “A 800 Missile” shared tune)
Bone Shaker 3:19.0 3:19.5 (my latest tune, not shared yet)
'02 Nissan GT-R 3:22.8 3:24.4 (Object260 “Street V1”)
'02 Nissan GT-R 3:20.7 3:26.3 (GTz Marple “Monkas”)
So that’s an example of what I was saying, Object260’s tune has off road tyres, which is too much tyre for it to be competitive in the dry, but it does make it slightly faster than the Daytona in the wet. I agree the high grip makes it easy to drive. I doubt it’s possible to make the Daytona competitive in the dry if it’s given off road tyres to improve the wet performance.
I spent 30 minutes and couldnt figure out how GTz maprle is build that nissan, i get same amount hp, few kg less weight but my handling and braking stats are mutch better than GTz marplez have. But that car dont feel good for me 3.26 in dry asphalt, and daytona i got 3,24. But still of when in rain can get 3,23 with bone shaker with race tires and 3,22 with dirt tires. And i still dont like that track 
^ thanks for all that, very interesting. I just tried your Daytona tune and got a 3:33 so it’s clear this car needs more skill and finesse to get the best out of it than I possess! I’m glad I got the idea from XXX 2zigenTuner above to run some test laps in different cars, it’s very illuminating.
Hi guys, i have been buying different cars for A class PvP racing and tuning them for a while but i’m struggling to find a perfect car for this.
What is the best A class car you’ve driven?
Thanks in advance.
To help you a little I’ll post a list of my 10 fastest A-class road cars. All tested on my own test track and listed with the fastest build I could come up:
#1 1999 Mitsubishi Evo VI (AWD, Stock Tires, V8-Swap, aero): 6:34.806
#2 1965 Shelby Daytona (AWD, Vintage Race Tires, V8-Swap, aero): 6:35.365
#3 1997 Mitsubishi GTO (AWD, Street Tires, V8-Swap, aero): 6:35.980
#4 2001 Audi RS4 Avant (AWD, Stock Tires, V8-Swap, aero): 6:35.999
#5 2011 Hot Wheels Bone Shaker (AWD, Stock Tires, rear-aero): 6:36.540
#6 1997 Lamborghini Diablo SV (RWD, Stock Tires, no-aero): 6:37.017
#7 1987 Porsche 959 (AWD, Stock Tires, no-aero): 6:38.376
#8 1984 Ferrari 288 GTO (RWD, Stock Tires, no-aero): 6:38.442
#9 1988 Lamborghini Countach (RWD, Stock Tires, no-aero): 6:38.902
#10 2005 Vauxhall Monaro VXR (RWD, Stock Tires no-aero): 6:39.785
There is a pattern to have a fast A-class road car: A relatively low weight, AWD-car with tires below “Sports Tier” and then V8-engine swap with aero-parts to compensate for the lack of mechanical grip. The Evo VIII and IX would also fit in that list as would some of the Subaru WRX if tuned after the method above. I did not list them due to redundancy.
Another pattern which can be seem are the “Retro Super Cars” because they come with stock tires that provide more mechanical grip than theirs upgradable tires while costing less PI. These saved PI points can be used elsewhere and are the reason they are better than most other RWD cars on A-class. Some of them (especially the Diablo and 288 GTO) also benefit from a minor PI mistake through which they save up to 5 PI points by installing the “Sport gearbox”. Without these tuning tricks no RWD car would make it into this list.
The Monaro is an oddball car which also cheats the PI system to some extent and is only for players who are very experienced with RWD cars. It goes 365 km/h on A-class - and that’s basically how it drives.
My personal recommendations are in order: Shelby Daytona, Audi RS4 Avant, Bone Shaker (if you have it), Mitsubishi GTO, Mitsubishi Evo VI.
This List is prone to change to some extent because testing in this game is very time-consuming and I still have to build and test some promising cars like the Alfa 33S and so on.
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