These are the 12 best driver's cars of 2016

Every year since 2009, the staff at Motor Trend magazine along with professional racer Randy Pobst have selected what they consider to be the Best Driver's Car of the Year.

Past winners of the competition include the Chevrolet Camaro Z/28, the Porsche 911 Carrera 4S, and the defending champion Mercedes-AMG GT S.

This year, the competition consisted of 12 cars from various domestic and international brands that range for mass-market to ultra-niche.

The Motor Trend staff and Pobst spent a week putting the cars through the ringer in a series of instrumented tests, carving the mountain roads of California, as well as hot laps around the track at Laguna Seca.

And here are the results.