A nice middle ground might be a motorcycle. I had a 600 sportbike for a few years, and it was funny riding an $8k machine (at the time) that could outperform mo

A nice middle ground might be a motorcycle. I had a 600 sportbike for a few years, and it was funny riding an $8k machine (at the time) that could outperform most sports cars on anything other than a straight-line top speed test. But you only want a motorcycle if you have good restraint. Sportbikes are so capable, it is easy to maim or kill yourself if you don't know how to hold back. They are just really capable bikes in the low rpms, and then they are high-end racing machines in the high rpms. I got my motorcycle in my late 20's, after spending a lot of my life riding a bicycle. I don't think it would have been good for me to have a motorcycle in my late teens/ early twenties.