GT-R, 911 Turbo S, R8 V10 Plus, and 570S Meet in the Mother of Drag Races

This race has everything: rear-wheel-drive, all-wheel-drive (no front-wheel-drive, that would have been ridiculous), V6 engine, V8 engine, V10 engine, flat six engine, turbocharged engines, naturally aspirated engine, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom - it's like a fruit salad, but the kind you would eat until the sound of the spoon scraping the bottom of the bowl became too much to bear.

No two cars are the same. The McLaren 570S is the only one with rear-wheel-drive, but with its bi-turbo V8 engine and a very efficient launch control system, you can't rule it out. Besides, on longer distances, the absence of a chunky 4WD system stops being a liability.

The Audi R8 V10 Plus is the only one with ten cylinders, but they're also the only ones to suck the air out of the atmosphere without any outside help. That means less grunt at lower revs, basically negating the four-wheel-drive advantage. Still, we all know what Audis can do on the drag strip, so you wouldn't really rule it out, would you?

The Nissan GT-R doesn't need any more introductions. It used to be a beast on the drag strip, but now that fear-factor has gone down a bit. It has a V6 engine, but what it's famed for is its ability to put all the power down on the road. Perhaps a NISMO version would have been more appropriate in this company, but the GT-R is a formidable foe nevertheless.

Finally, we have the   911 Turbo S with its 3.8-liter flat six pumping out 581 hp from just over 4,000 rpm and sending it to all four wheels through a seven-speed double clutch transmission. It has an official 0-62 mph time of 2.9 seconds, but we all know Porsches tend to go faster in reality.

So, which way will this go? Four cars with similar power outputs but with very different sources for it meet on the drag strip. Would you pass the popcorn, please? Nah, forget it, we'll be biting our fingernails anyway.