If you're after performance, a shifter cart, well... especially a super kart will beat 99% of anything Ferrari and Lamborghini have produced, on almost any track. Superkarts even hold the outright lap records on some tracks, over F1 cars even.

Shifter carts are reasonably cheap and they're a hell of a lot of fun and adrenaline. If you truly like racing, that's where a lot of the F1 guys start their careers. Not the safest thing in the world, though. Spec Miata is way more tame, relaxed and safer.

They are really hard to drive. A quarter inch of steering input goes a long way on those things. I will never drive another one. Its mental.

Are you talking super karts or shifter karts?

I've had a lot of fun in shifter karts, but never been on the track in a real super kart.

Both. I was lucky to try them out and it was crazy fun. But I would not track either of them. Too intense. :)

Yea, but I wish I could race shifter carts every weekend. Safety is a concern, though, and I agree it's intense :) That's what I love about it

Aha, interesting, I'd never heard of Veblen goods before this. I'd also never thought about it in this manner before, making it a better product would make it actually worth the money, and hence less desirable.

The world is such a weird place.

I wasn't being totally serious there.