Honorable mentions...maybe it's a 25-car garage.
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1962 Panhard PL 17 | An obscure little lightweight French car with polished aluminum eyebrows, an extremely efficient two-cylinder engine, and a surprisingly spacious six-person cabin. Not fast, but lots of fun. | |
2006 Ferrari 612 Scaglietti | At the risk of looking bland next to Ferrari's other offerings, the 612 was the rare subtle, demure Ferrari that could carry five people in comfort. | |
2003 Ferrari Enzo | Every car nerd had their one true bedroom-wall poster car. This was mine. | |
1966 Porsche 906 | The last-ever Le Mans racer to also be road-legal sported an odd, low-nosed function-over-form design that still ended up being quite a looker. | |
1973 Lamborghini Miura SV | A swoopy bat from hell that ushered in modern supercar design. | |
1957 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Roadster | Perhaps it's sacrilege to prefer the roadster over its famous "Gullwing" coupe variant, but its smooth flowing lines, elongated headlights, and famously off-kilter straight-six engine make this blazingly fast convertible the one for me. | |
1960 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Speciale | One of the most beautiful cars ever made, a tiny little flying saucer with not much power but endless personality and charm. | |
1948 Tucker 48 | In another universe, this could have been the blueprint for the sedan of the 50s. Looking for all the world like a traditional 1950s American sedan but hiding a rear-mounted boxer engine and countless technological advances, the design featured a unique tapered hood with its third headlight evoking the "boat-tail" look of classic speedsters. | |
1937 Cord 812 | The Cord significantly modernized the automobile of the 1930s, marking the introduction of front-wheel-drive, independent front suspension, and a smoother, more modern body with no running boards and the distinctive "coffin hood". | |
2024 Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale | Easily one of the best-looking cars in recent memory, Alfa’s new 33 absolutely nails the burgeoning trend of reimagining retro designs for the modern age. This perfect homage to the equally beautiful 1968 33 Stradale is accentuated by details like the 3D machined metal shield in the grille, the rear wheel well vents incorporated into the striking taillight design, and a rare choice between a roaring V8 or full electric power. | |
2022 Morgan Super 3 | This retro-modern three-wheeled motorcycle-car might just be the most fun you can legally have on the road. | |
2023 Koenigsegg CC850 | A celebration of the CC8 that came twenty years before it, this Swedish minimalist approach to supercar design is beautifully simple and crisp in its design language. But its real party piece is the gearbox, which is the world’s first to offer a seamless transition from genuine mechanical manual shifting to automatic with a simple flick of the shifter, with different gear ratios available in different driving modes. | |
2006 Yes Roadster 3.2 | ||
2000 TVR Tuscan | ||
2022 Honda S660 |
Concept cars(one-off show cars never sold to the public)
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2001 BMW GINA Visionary Concept | With a body made entirely out of a stretchy silicone fabric drawn tight over a metal frame with movable parts, this car's skin could literally shapeshift. It was also even better-looking than the Z4 it inspired. | |
1938 Phantom Corsair | Built by the heir to the Heinz fortune, the Phantom is easily the most ahead-of-its-time design in automotive history. Looking like it could be a 1970s Batmobile, this 1938 oddity seated four across. | |
1947 Buick Norman Timbs Special | A one-off car built by a Buick designer exclusively for himself, he flipped an existing chassis around backwards to create a rear-engined streamliner and gave it gorgeous, exaggerated curves. | |
1993 Isdera Commendatore 112i | A rather odd mashup of Porsche and Mercedes parts, as well as some original engineering, resulted in this long, streamlined, V12-powered curiosity. With only one completed prototype, the car journalists all got to enjoy it—but not the public. | |
2012 Peugeot Onyx | Peugeot harnessed the natural beauty of solid, unvarnished copper by giving the Onyx supercar concept copper body panels that aged and oxidized naturally, and are still doing so to this day in the Peugeot museum. Together with a diesel hybrid drivetrain and a recycled newspaper interior, it truly upheld the French's reputation for quirkiness. | |
2000 Audi Rosemeyer | Its development technically led to the Bugatti Veyron, but Audi's show car had a way cooler backstory: it was an homage to the Auto Union racers of the 1930s, its unadorned industrial aesthetic complete with unpainted sheetmetal and exposed rivets. | |
1999 Honda Spocket concept | Supercar plus truck bed. Enough said. | |
2008 Venturi Volage | A slick, futuristic space pod of a car from a company that was way ahead of its time on EV technology. | |
2006 Alfa Romeo Diva | A compact little prototype which eventually evolved into the 4C, but in concept form had much cooler styling and more explicit references to Alfa's 1968 Stradale. | |
2013 Porsche 904 Living Legend | This beautiful, flowing homage to the Porsche 904 of the 1960s actually hides under its skin a platform originally designed by Volkswagen for maximum fuel efficiency. | |
2023 Fisker Ronin |