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"The ZR-1 makes the statement that we can do things today that no one even dreamed could be done ten or twenty years ago. We've achieved a spectacular level of performance and are still able to meet or exceed all government standards for fuel economy, safety, noise, emissions, and so on."
That quote from Dave McLellan, Corvette chief engineer, appeared in the June 1989  issue of Car and Driver magazine. It was in the very first road test of the (then) soon-to-be-publicly-available 1990 Corvette ZR-1. With 375 horsepower, the ZR-1 was the most powerful American car since 1971. And at the time it was the quickest, fastest, and best-handling American car ever.
But the guys at GM weren’t the only engineers that had figured it out. Mr. McLellan might as well have been speaking for the entire automotive industry. Cool cars were not only back, they had gone global. Like Detroit, engineering teams all over Europe were also back on their game, and the Japanese manufacturers were about to go off. They all dabbled in performance cars in the 1980s, but things got serious in the 1990s. For the first time Honda, Toyota, Nissan, Mazda and Mitsubishi were unleashing their own varieties of high-performance machines.
The 1990s were going to be good. And they were. Here are the 10 greatest performance cars from the 1990s in chronological order.
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