Comparing bikes and cars doesn't really work anyway. They're just different vehicles.
That being said, at the highest levels of racing
F1 is much faster lap time than MotoGP (though a GP bike resembles a high end street bike)
Top Fuel Dragsters are much faster than the fastest drag bikes
In both cases, that's mostly because of the realities of traction related to aerodynamics and simply holding onto the damn thing.
Off Road, forget it, bikes are faster. I think they've won Baja 1000 (overall) ever year except one. (Going on memory).
Bang for buck, forget it. $6k will get you into a nice used GSXR750 and you can head out to the track for some seriously fast running. You can't do dick with cars for $6k.
Also just $15k new will get you state of the art liter bikes. If you can ride well, you'll be faster than 99.99% of cars on the road, twisties or straight. Put the same money into a ZX14 and you're running mid 9s around 145mph . . . out of the box.
Also, the feeling of riding a bike is a completely different kind of exhilaration than driving a car. It's different being completely exposed to the road not strapped into anything and having the wind TRYING to pull you off than being neatly strapped into a car with air bags etc. If you want to get up close and personal with a performance machine, a purely mechanical bike is about as close as you're going to get.
No question performance cars and what's available to make cars better performers has considerably closed the gap.
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