Welcome Jalopnik readers to a new segment where, I, as your intrepid reviewer get ten minutes to drive three cars and make some sort of meaningful, ideally insightful and maybe even witty, comparison.

Let's get this out of the way first. This is simply the most Jalop series in racing today. Perhaps nothing more needs to be said than that the two front-running teams are the Cadillac CTS-Vs and the K-Pax Volvo S60s. If that doesn't float your boat it's almost guaranteed your favorite manufacturer is represented.

I think pretty much everyone agrees the BRZ/FR-S/Toyota 86 triumvirate is a good time on four wheels, and we're just at the cusp of what will likely be a vast ocean of race-bred variations. It looks like the Monsterization machines over in Fukishima Prefecture have been working overtime, and the result is the Super…

Who cares about the total absence of rear legroom? It’s an FR-S with the wind in your hair! Same two-liter boxer, same light weight, same thirty-year-old concept honed to modern perfection. They’ll build it, won’t they?

If you're anything like me, you just slogged through a freezing-ass winter, and a drive in a convertible on a sunny afternoon sounds extremely appealing right now. That's why I dig this video of the droptop FT-86 in action.

Toyota! We give you guys shit for being beige sometimes, but I have to admit that when you get it right, you really get it right. And by "it," I mean performance cars. You've got a fantastic sporting heritage that no one can argue with.

Man, the Scion FR-S has been getting a ton of love lately as we reflect on the best cars of 2012. And for good reason, too — it's awesome to drive.

More rumors are trickling out about a purported hopped-up STI version of everyone's current favorite rear-wheel-drive Subaru, the BRZ.

Underneath it all, Jeremy Clarkson is a car guy. He gets it. He loves the Toyobaru almost as much as we do. A sports car balanced towards driving joy, not towards pure numbers. The numbers thing, the how-fast-can-we-drag-race-a-bunch-of-cars, is the realm of people who think more is better, not better is better. The …

Still trying to come up with a name for this clinical mint color that keeps showing up at SEMA this week.