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Sports cars & GTs

• Mazda MX-5 (ND) — 8.8 · The answer, as always.
• Porsche 718 Cayman — 8.5 · Balance over bragging rights.
• Porsche 911 Carrera T — 8.3 · Manual, no wing, no waiting list.
• Porsche 718 Boxster — 8.3 · The Cayman, with the argument about roofs settled.
• Toyota GR86 — 8.3 · Momentum, taught affordably.
• Corvette E-Ray (C8) — 7.9 · The Corvette Chevrolet built to work in the rain.
• Porsche 911 Carrera 2S Manual — 7.8 · The normal 911 spec for people who still care.
• BMW M2 Competition (F87) — 7.8 · The last M2 with the S55 engine and a truly exploitable power level.
• Porsche 911 Turbo (996) — 7.8 · The 911 the internet spent twenty years telling you not to buy, and was wrong about.
• BMW M2 (G87) — 7.3 · The last manual M car, used like one.
• Alpine A110 — 7.3 · 1,100 kg of French disagreement.
• Chevrolet SS — 7.3 · A Holden performance sedan, badge-swapped for America.
• Porsche 911 Turbo S (992) — 7.3 · PDK, all-wheel drive, and more everyday pace than anyone needs.
• Corvette Z06 (C6) — 7.3 · A 7.0-liter NA V8 that punishes drivers who forget the oil temp gauge.
• Audi TT RS (8S) — 7.3 · The five-cylinder hot hatch America barely noticed.
• Dodge Challenger SRT Demon — 7.3 · 840 hp, a dragstrip prep kit and a NHRA ban. One year only.
• Jaguar XKR (X150) — 7.3 · A supercharged aluminium Jaguar GT, now cheaper than a new hatchback.
• Pontiac Solstice GXP — 7.3 · The Cobalt SS turbo four, turned rear-drive — and then the brand was cancelled.
• Pontiac Firebird Trans Am WS6 — 7.3 · A Corvette engine, a live rear axle, and a bonnet with two holes in it.
• Alfa Romeo GTV (916) — 7.2 · Pininfarina's best nineties shape, sold for years at used-hatchback money.
• Nissan Z (RZ34) — 7.0 · Old bones, honest mission.
• BMW M4 Competition — 7.0 · 503 hp, the best inline-six in production — and a face that polarises.
• TVR Chimaera — 7.0 · The TVR you can actually use — which is why so many still get used.
• BMW M3 (E36) — 7.0 · The M3 stopped being a homologation special here and became a product.
• Lexus RC F — 6.9 · Lexus's answer to the M4, minus the turbo lag.
• Vauxhall Monaro VXR — 6.9 · Holden muscle, a griffin badge, and British roads.
• Mercedes-Benz C36 AMG (W202) — 6.8 · The car that invented factory AMG.
• Mercedes SLK 55 AMG — 6.8 · The friendly, affordable way into a real AMG V8.
• Camaro ZL1 1LE — 6.8 · A Nürburgring lap record wearing a Chevy bowtie.
• Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 (C7) — 6.8 · 755 hp, a supercharged LT5 and the last front-engine ZR1 Corvette.
• Ford Mustang SVT Cobra "Terminator" — 6.8 · Rated at 390 hp, and nobody has ever believed the number.
• Ultima GTR — 6.8 · McLaren borrowed two of these to develop the F1, then crushed them both.
• Corvette Stingray (C8) — 6.5 · Mid-engine for the many.
• Lotus Emira — 6.5 · The last petrol Lotus, driven like a first.
• Toyota GR Supra (A90) — 6.5 · The BMW handshake that worked.
• Lexus LC 500 Convertible — 6.5 · The concept car they accidentally sold, roof down now.
• Lotus Evora GT — 6.5 · The last Lotus with a proper name, sent off at its best.
• Ford Mustang Dark Horse — 6.5 · The last naturally aspirated Mustang halo, arriving right on schedule.
• Ferrari 456 GT — 6.5 · Four seats, a gated six-speed V12, and a decade spent worth less than a new Golf GTI.
• Lexus LC 500 — 6.3 · The concept car they accidentally sold.
• Corvette Z06 (C5) — 6.3 · Track pace per dollar, still unbeaten.
• Ferrari FF — 6.3 · The V12 Ferrari built to carry skis, not trophies.
• Fiat Coupé 20V Turbo — 6.3 · Pininfarina's shape, a turbo five, a cult that skipped America.
• Porsche Boxster Spyder (981) — 6.3 · The manual, roofless Cayman GT4 nobody remembers.
• McLaren 600LT — 6.3 · 96kg lighter, and it shows in how it's used.
• Noble M12 — 6.3 · A twin-turbo mid-engined supercar from a company nobody at the golf club has heard of.
• Noble M400 — 6.1 · Four hundred horsepower per tonne. That's not a nickname, it's the specification.
• Porsche Cayman GT4 (718) — 6.0 · The 911 pecking order's worst nightmare.
• BMW M850i — 6.0 · Ninety percent of the M8, for buyers who did the math.
• Maserati GranTurismo MC — 6.0 · Ferrari's V8, Maserati's depreciation curve.
• BMW 850CSi (E31) — 6.0 · The only manual, V12 8-series BMW ever built — and no longer cheap.
• Corvette Z06 (C7) — 6.0 · 650 supercharged horsepower, occasionally throttled by its own cooling system.
• Ferrari Portofino — 6.0 · The California T, with the complaints fixed.
• Dodge Viper GTS — 6.0 · 450 hp, a roof, and nothing whatsoever to help you.
• Maserati Coupé GT (6-speed) — 6.0 · A gated Ferrari V8 for the price of a used Golf, and the reason nobody sane sells one.
• McLaren GT — 5.9 · The McLaren built to be driven, not tracked.
• BMW Z4 M Coupé — 5.9 · The second shooting brake BMW built, and the one nobody quotes.
• Porsche 718 GT4 RS — 5.8 · A 9,000 rpm pass for the track.
• Porsche 911 GT3 Touring — 5.8 · The RS engine in a business suit.
• Ferrari GTC4Lusso — 5.8 · The shooting-brake V12 Ferrari nobody cross-shops on purpose.
• Jaguar XKR-S — 5.8 · The last and angriest XK, discounted below the car that replaced it.
• Ford GT (2005) — 5.8 · Bought to drive, appreciated anyway — the rare supercar with both.
• McLaren 675LT — 5.8 · The McLaren enthusiasts actually got to buy.
• BMW M8 Competition — 5.8 · The fastest M car BMW makes. Also the heaviest, and the most GT.
• Ferrari 612 Scaglietti — 5.8 · The cheapest way into a V12 Ferrari, and the most car for the money in Maranello's history.
• Alpine A610 — 5.7 · 818 built, a Porsche layout, and the last time anyone said Alpine for 22 years.
• Shelby GT350R — 5.5 · The 8,250 rpm Mustang that gets used.
• Jaguar F-Type R — 5.5 · The soundtrack sells the car.
• Noble M600 — 5.5 · No badge, no aids, no reason to buy one but wanting to drive.
• Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 — 5.5 · 760 hp of supercharged V8, no clutch pedal allowed.
• Jaguar XJ220 — 5.5 · No power steering, no ABS — the realest hypercar here.
• Ferrari California T — 5.5 · The Ferrari purists said wasn't a real Ferrari.
• Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano — 5.5 · The last manual V12 Ferrari, and almost nobody ordered one.
• BMW M6 (E63) — 5.5 · A 8,250 rpm V10 in a grand tourer that shipped detuned by default.
• Aston Martin DB7 Vantage Volante — 5.5 · Twelve cylinders, a folding roof, and a price that has been embarrassing for twenty years.
• TVR Cerbera — 5.4 · British chaos with rear seats in theory.
• McLaren 650S — 5.4 · The 12C's fix, now a depreciation bargain.
• Audi R8 V10 — 5.3 · The approachable supercar, gently parked.
• Aston Martin Vantage — 5.3 · Bond cosplay with real bones.
• Lamborghini Gallardo — 5.3 · The Lambo that actually got driven.
• Dodge Viper ACR (Gen V) — 5.3 · America's lap-record project car.
• Ferrari 360 Modena — 5.3 · The volume Ferrari that still gets driven.
• Ferrari F430 — 5.3 · The last manual V8 Ferrari, and nobody noticed until it ended.
• McLaren 570S — 5.3 · The dynamics McLaren nailed on the first cheap try.
• BMW M6 (F13) — 5.3 · Twin turbos fixed every objection to the V10 except the interesting one.
• Aston Martin DB11 AMR — 5.1 · The DB11 finally grew sharper teeth.
• Mercedes SL 63 S E Performance — 5.0 · Heavy, fast, and quietly used as a car.
• Mercedes-AMG GT — 5.0 · The SLS idea made usable, then bought both ways.
• Aston Martin Vanquish — 5.0 · A hand-built V12 GT, held back by its own gearbox.
• Alfa Romeo 4C — 5.0 · A carbon tub with commitment issues.
• Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1 (C4) — 5.0 · Lotus engineering in a Corvette nobody could spot.
• Mercedes-AMG C 63 Black Series — 5.0 · The naturally aspirated C-Class turned menace.
• TVR Sagaris — 5.0 · 406 bhp, 1,078 kg, no ABS and no airbags — as a matter of policy.
• Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 (C6) — 5.0 · 638 hp, a window in the bonnet, and the first six-figure Corvette.
• BMW Z3 M Coupé — 5.0 · An after-hours engineering argument that BMW was talked into building.
• Spyker C8 Spyder — 5.0 · Aviation cosplay with an Audi V8 and a gearshift on display.
• Porsche 992 GT3 RS — 4.8 · A track tool with a flipper tax.
• Mercedes-AMG GT R — 4.8 · The Beast of the Green Hell, mostly resting.
• Ferrari 458 Italia — 4.8 · The last NA Ferrari V8, priced like it knows.
• BMW 1M Coupé — 4.8 · The parts-bin special that outgrew the badge.
• Porsche 911 GT2 (996) — 4.8 · The widowmaker, un-softened.
• Ferrari 550 Maranello — 4.8 · The manual V12 GT blueprint.
• Porsche 911 GT3 (992) — 4.8 · Same engine as the Touring, minus the anonymity.
• Pagani Zonda — 4.8 · A gated manual in a hypercar, still shifting today.
• Ferrari F12 Berlinetta — 4.8 · The V12 GT bridge nobody remembers between 599 and 812.
• Ferrari Roma — 4.8 · The boulevard Ferrari the badge was built to sell.
• Aston Martin V12 Vantage S — 4.8 · A screaming NA V12 over an automated gearbox, until the manual finally arrived.
• Koenigsegg CCX — 4.8 · The last Koenigsegg you could row yourself.
• Mercedes-AMG GT C — 4.7 · The AMG GT nobody quite remembers, wedged between S and R.
• Mercedes-Benz CLK 63 AMG Black Series — 4.7 · DTM cosplay with a hand-built V8.
• Gordon Murray T.50 — 4.7 · The F1 corrected, and the one halo whose owners drive it.
• Mercedes-AMG GT S — 4.6 · The GT with its wick turned up.
• Ferrari 812 Superfast — 4.5 · V12 heart, collector wrapper.
• Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG — 4.5 · Gullwing theatre over a real chassis.
• Honda NSX (NC1) — 4.5 · Right car, wrong decade.
• Porsche 911 GT2 RS — 4.4 · The widowmaker, minus the clutch pedal.
• Corvette Z06 (C8) — 4.3 · A Le Mans engine in markup purgatory.
• Lamborghini Huracán Performante — 4.3 · The Huracán that remembers lap times matter.
• GMC Syclone — 4.3 · A turbo AWD pickup that out-dragged Ferraris.
• Bugatti EB110 — 4.3 · The forgotten 90s Bugatti, now remembered at auction.
• McLaren MP4-12C — 4.3 · McLaren's rocky reboot, now the bargain in the room.
• BMW i8 — 4.3 · A hypercar silhouette over a three-cylinder hybrid heart.
• Ferrari F8 Tributo — 4.3 · The last non-hybrid V8 Ferrari, and nobody planned it that way.
• Ferrari 296 GTB — 4.3 · 819 hybrid horsepower, and a fake V12 note piped through the firewall.
• BMW M1 — 4.3 · The homologation racer that skipped the race and went straight to the vault.
• Ferrari Testarossa — 4.3 · The '80s poster car that's actually pleasant to drive.
• BMW Z8 — 4.3 · The Bond car most owners keep sealed.
• Porsche 911 Speedster (991) — 4.3 · 1,948 units. The 991 swan song — a manual, open-top, naturally aspirated farewell.
• Porsche 911 Dakar — 4.3 · The one 911 that is worth more the dirtier it gets.
• McLaren 720S — 4.0 · Devastating pace, revolving owners.
• Lamborghini Huracán — 4.0 · The rental-exotic economy, in one car.
• Mercedes-AMG SL 65 Black Series — 4.0 · 661hp of fixed-roof V12 menace, mostly parked.
• Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Roadster — 4.0 · The gullwing theatre, minus the gullwing doors.
• Ferrari 488 GTB — 4.0 · The turbo apology tour.
• Aston Martin Valkyrie — 4.0 · An F1 car with plates, barely street-legal by design.
• McLaren Artura — 4.0 · McLaren's first hybrid, still working out the bugs.
• Maserati MC20 — 4.0 · A genuinely great engine wearing a badge nobody trusts on resale.
• Porsche Carrera GT — 3.8 · An analog monument, rarely woken.
• Mercedes SLK 55 AMG Black Series — 3.8 · Hardcore oddball turned collector bait.
• Lamborghini Murciélago — 3.8 · The last clutch-pedal Lambo V12.
• McLaren F1 — 3.8 · The greatest car, in the softest bubble.
• Lexus LFA — 3.8 · The 9,500 rpm apology letter.
• McLaren 765LT — 3.8 · Too fast for public roads, just usable enough to tempt fate.
• McLaren Senna — 3.8 · Built to be tracked, and mostly is.
• McLaren 620R — 3.8 · A road-legal GT4 racer that mostly stays parked.
• Ferrari 458 Speciale — 3.8 · The last NA V8 Speciale, priced like everyone knew it.
• Aston Martin DBS Superleggera — 3.8 · 715 hp of V12 GT, mostly asked to idle at valet stands.
• McLaren Elva — 3.8 · So few people wanted one, McLaren cut the run twice.
• Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione — 3.8 · 500 coupes, a Maserati V8, and one of the great modern noises.
• Pagani Utopia — 3.6 · A manual gearbox on a two-and-a-half-million-dollar sculpture.
• Lamborghini Diablo — 3.5 · The poster car that bites.
• Mercedes-AMG GT 43 — 3.5 · GT body, four-cylinder reality.
• Mercedes SL 55 AMG — 3.5 · Supercharged sofa for the seafront.
• Porsche 918 Spyder — 3.5 · The trinity's engineer, vaulted with honors.
• Ferrari 488 Pista — 3.5 · The 488 done properly, and it shows in who actually tracks it.
• Mercedes-AMG "Hammer" (W124) — 3.5 · The Q-ship that put AMG on the map, now a vault piece.
• Mercedes-Benz CLK DTM AMG — 3.5 · A DTM road car for 100 buyers, never for America.
• Pagani Huayra — 3.5 · The V12 got an upgrade; the gearbox didn't.
• Mercedes SLR McLaren — 3.3 · Monaco cruiser with an F1 badge.
• Lamborghini Aventador — 3.3 · The poster car that stayed a poster.
• BMW M4 CSL — 3.3 · 1,000 built, half already in bubbles.
• Ferrari SF90 Stradale — 3.3 · Ferrari's fastest flagship yet, still finding its footing as a hybrid.
• McLaren Sabre — 3.3 · Fifteen built, allocated to people who won't drive it much.
• Lamborghini Huracán Evo Spyder — 3.3 · The Huracán's flip economy, with the roof down.
• Vector W8 — 3.3 · 625 turbocharged horses, routed through a Toronado gearbox.
• Koenigsegg Agera — 3.3 · A Swedish record-chaser with real driver access, mostly parked anyway.
• Lamborghini Countach — 3.3 · The poster on every kid's wall, now too valuable to actually poke.
• Koenigsegg Regera — 3.2 · No gearbox, no drama, mostly no miles.
• Hennessey Venom F5 — 3.2 · 1,817 hp of Texas, and they do actually run it.
• Mercedes SL 65 AMG — 3.0 · V12 torque at boulevard pace.
• McLaren P1 — 3.0 · Batmobile spec, bank-vault life.
• Buick GNX — 3.0 · 547 built, most parked the day they arrived.
• RUF CTR3 — 3.0 · Thirty built, and not a Porsche — RUF moved the engine in front of the axle.
• Ferrari F50 — 2.8 · Formula 1 with a roof, rarely opened.
• Ferrari LaFerrari — 2.8 · The apex predator of climate-controlled storage.
• Ford GT (2017) — 2.8 · Contractually yours, briefly.
• Mercedes-Benz CL 65 AMG — 2.8 · A V12 barge bought cheap, sold cheaper.
• Koenigsegg Jesko — 2.8 · 1,280 hp, a nine-speed marvel, and a waiting list instead of miles.
• Mercedes-AMG One — 2.8 · A Formula 1 power unit, and a maintenance bill to match.
• McLaren Speedtail — 2.8 · 250mph, reclined, and rarely driven.
• Lamborghini Aventador SVJ — 2.6 · The last loud V12 before the museum rope.
• SSC Tuatara — 2.6 · Chased the record, lost the record, kept the price.
• Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series — 2.5 · A Nürburgring weapon trapped in auction velvet.
• Ferrari Enzo — 2.5 · Eight figures and climbing — nobody's driving this one.
• Porsche 911 R — 2.5 · The engineering-over-theatre 911, priced like theatre anyway.
• Bugatti Veyron — 2.5 · The horsepower war's opening shot, mostly parked since.
• Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport — 2.3 · A sharper-handling Chiron, same allocation-flip ownership pattern.
• Ferrari Monza SP1 — 2.3 · A windscreen-less showpiece, driven exactly as often as that implies.
• Bugatti Chiron — 2.0 · Same trophy case, a better view through the windshield.
• Porsche 911 Sport Classic (992) — 2.0 · 1,250 ducktails, and the resale listings started before the deliveries did.
• Bugatti Divo — 1.8 · Called a corner-carver, driven like a vault item.
• Bugatti W16 Mistral — 1.5 · The W16's last word, delivered straight into storage.
• W Motors Lykan HyperSport — 1.3 · Famous for a stunt performed by fibreglass copies.
• Lamborghini Centenario — 1.2 · An Aventador dressed as a numbered asset.

JDM icons

• Nissan 350Z (Z33) — 8.6 · Nissan put the Z back within reach, and everybody drove it.
• Toyota MR2 Spyder (W30) — 8.2 · 996 kg, mid-engined, and no boot whatsoever.
• Daihatsu Copen — 8.2 · A powered folding metal roof and a four-cylinder 660, built better than it needed to be.
• Subaru SVX — 8.0 · Giugiaro's glass canopy, a 3.3 flat-six, and an automatic gearbox as the only option.
• Honda S660 — 7.8 · 660 cc of pure intent.
• Nissan Skyline GTS-T (R32/R33) — 7.7 · The Skyline without the four-wheel drive — and, most of the time, the better one to drive.
• Toyota Starlet GT Turbo — 7.7 · 930 kg, a turbocharged 1.3, and a Japanese-market secret for most of its life.
• Toyota Chaser Tourer V (JZX100) — 7.7 · A turbocharged straight-six and a manual gearbox, disguised as a rep's saloon.
• Toyota Aristo V300 (JZS161) — 7.6 · The Supra’s engine, four doors, and nothing outside to say so.
• Nissan Silvia (S12) — 7.5 · The Silvia nobody collects, carrying the Skyline’s twin-cam turbo four.
• Honda S2000 — 7.3 · 9,000 rpm and no excuses.
• Mazda RX-8 — 7.3 · Apex seals sold separately.
• Honda Beat — 7.3 · Sixty-three horsepower, delivered through three separate throttle bodies.
• Subaru WRX STI (GVB) — 7.3 · Subaru gave the STI its four doors and its wing back, and was forgiven.
• Nissan 300ZX (Z31) — 7.2 · The Z that swapped the straight-six for a turbo V6 and sold in enormous numbers.
• Honda Integra Type R (DC5) — 7.2 · Sold in America as something else, and something less.
• Suzuki Cappuccino — 7.2 · Kei rules, 725 kg, and a roof that comes apart four ways.
• Datsun 280ZX (S130) — 7.2 · The Z that traded lightness for a T-bar roof, and got bought anyway.
• Toyota Soarer (Z20) — 7.2 · A touchscreen, a digital dash and two turbochargers. In 1986. Japan only.
• Nissan 370Z Nismo — 7.1 · The GT-R Nismo's cheaper, more track-honest little brother.
• Suzuki Alto Works — 7.1 · 660 cc, 64 PS by national agreement, 700 kg — and it revs past 8,000.
• Mitsubishi Galant VR-4 — 7.0 · The Evo's engine and AWD, years earlier, for a fraction of the price.
• Toyota MR2 (AW11) — 6.9 · Toyota built a mid-engined car for Corolla money, then asked Lotus how to make it steer.
• Autozam AZ-1 — 6.8 · Kei-car lunacy with gullwing doors.
• Honda CR-X Si — 6.8 · The featherweight Honda everyone drove until they noticed.
• Nissan 180SX — 6.8 · The S13 Japan kept: same fastback, turbocharged, a different car to own.
• Mitsubishi Starion — 6.6 · Flared arches, pop-up lamps, and balance shafts Porsche paid to use.
• Nissan Pulsar GTI-R — 6.5 · GT-R hardware in a hatchback nobody was supposed to notice.
• Nissan Skyline GT-R (R33) — 6.5 · The GT-R everyone skipped, and the first production car under eight minutes.
• Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII — 6.5 · The first Evo that thought hard about the centre differential.
• Honda City Turbo II — 6.5 · 735 kg, blistered arches, and an intercooler on a 1.2.
• Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IV/V — 6.4 · Where the Evo stopped being a fast Lancer and became a homologation weapon.
• Mazda RX-7 (FD) — 6.3 · Rotary romance for actual drivers.
• Toyota Celica GT-Four (ST185) — 6.1 · The car that made Toyota the first Japanese manufacturer to win the WRC.
• Subaru WRX STI (GD) — 6.0 · Rally blue, gravel optional.
• Toyota MR2 (SW20) — 6.0 · The budget Ferrari with a twist ending.
• Honda NSX (NA1) — 5.8 · Everyday supercar, promise mostly kept.
• Mazda Eunos Cosmo — 5.7 · Three rotors, two turbochargers, four seats — and no manual gearbox ever offered.
• Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X — 5.5 · S-AWC sharpened the corners, numbed the wheel.
• Honda CR-X SiR — 5.5 · The same shell as the American Si, and a completely different engine.
• Nissan GT-R (R35) — 5.3 · Godzilla, aging into an asset.
• Honda Civic Type R (EK9) — 5.3 · B16B: the small engine that could, forever.
• Toyota Celica GT-Four (ST205) — 5.3 · The forgotten homologation Toyota.
• Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII/IX — 5.3 · America's first legal Evo, worth building again.
• Toyota Supra (A70) — 5.3 · The Supra before 2JZ mythology took over.
• Nissan 240SX (S13) — 5.3 · Drift's founding chassis, mostly sacrificed to it.
• Subaru Impreza WRX STI (GC8) — 5.3 · The homologation STI, America never got to buy.
• Mitsubishi 3000GT VR-4 — 5.0 · The tech barge finally getting respect.
• Honda Civic Type R (FD2) — 5.0 · Last of the NA Type Rs, first as a sedan.
• Honda Integra Type R (DC2) — 4.8 · The FWD benchmark, being priced away.
• Nissan 300ZX (Z32) — 4.8 · The tech flagship, aging into respect.
• Nissan Skyline GT-R (R32) — 4.8 · Godzilla original, still hunting.
• Nissan GT-R Nismo (R35) — 4.5 · Godzilla's track trim — half weapon, half hedge.
• Nissan Silvia (S14) — 4.5 · The Silvia everyone forgot between S13 and S15.
• Mazda RX-3 — 4.5 · An ordinary Mazda saloon shell, and the end of the Skyline GT-R’s streak.
• Toyota Supra (A80) — 4.3 · 2JZ legend, now auction bait.
• Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI — 4.3 · Mäkinen's homework, now collector-proofed.
• Toyota AE86 — 4.3 · The drift tax made it a unicorn.
• Nissan Silvia (S15) — 4.3 · Drift royalty, import-priced.
• Acura NSX Type S — 3.8 · The best NC1 arrived after the market stopped listening.
• Nissan Skyline GT-R (R34) — 3.3 · Import-law unicorn, priced like art.
• Subaru Impreza 22B — 2.8 · The blue-chip Subaru.
• Nissan Skyline GT-R (Hakosuka) — 1.8 · Godzilla's ancestor, priced like a masterpiece.
• Nissan Skyline GT-R (Kenmeri) — 1.3 · Six months on sale, forever a relic.

Hot hatches

• Ford Fiesta ST (Mk7) — 9.0 · Maximum grin per euro.
• VW Golf GTI (Mk8) — 9.0 · The default answer, still correct.
• Volkswagen Golf R (Mk8) — 8.8 · Fast everywhere, loud nowhere.
• Škoda Octavia vRS TDI (Mk2) — 8.6 · 170 PS, 350 Nm, 50 mpg and a boot you could sleep in. The company-car driver's revenge.
• Hyundai i30 N — 8.5 · The value-brand surprise that stuck the landing.
• Citroën Xsara VTS — 8.5 · 167 hp and 1,150 kg, from a company that spent the nineties denying it made hot hatches.
• Fiat Panda 100HP — 8.5 · Six gears and four disc brakes in a car designed to park in Naples.
• Hyundai Veloster N — 8.4 · The i30 N America wasn't supposed to get, driven exactly like it.
• Volkswagen up! GTI — 8.4 · 997 kg, 115 PS, six gears — the Mk1 Golf GTI formula, forty years late.
• Volkswagen Polo GTI — 8.3 · The GTI badge, one size down, DSG-only, never sold here.
• Peugeot 208 GTi (by Peugeot Sport) — 8.3 · The last Peugeot Sport hot hatch before the badge went quiet.
• Ford Focus ST (Mk3) — 8.3 · America's cheapest real Ford Performance product.
• Fiat 500 Abarth — 8.3 · A scorpion-badged city car that actually bites.
• Dodge Neon SRT-4 — 8.3 · Twenty thousand dollars, thirteen-second quarter miles, no limited-slip anywhere.
• Opel Astra OPC — 8.2 · The Golf GTI's forgotten German rival — never sold where anyone could cross-shop it.
• SEAT Ibiza Cupra — 8.2 · The GTI-fighter nobody cross-shopped.
• Škoda Fabia vRS (Mk2) — 8.2 · A supercharged-and-turbo Skoda, DSG-only and quick about it.
• Renault Clio RS 200 (Clio III) — 8.2 · The last naturally aspirated Clio RS, and the best.
• Ford Puma — 8.2 · Steve McQueen in the advert, a Yamaha-finished head in the engine.
• Abarth 595 Competizione — 8.1 · The everyday scorpion, fully armed.
• Peugeot 306 GTi-6 — 8.1 · Six gears, 167 horsepower, and a rear axle that steers.
• Renault Twingo RS — 8.1 · The smallest, cheapest and least respected car Renault Sport ever signed off.
• Autobianchi A112 Abarth — 8.0 · The hot hatch before 'hot hatch' was a category. Still priced like one.
• Ford Fiesta ST (Mk8) — 8.0 · Three cylinders, an optional Quaife diff, and the end of a 47-year line.
• Suzuki Swift Sport (ZC33S) — 8.0 · 970 kg. Everything else about it is a footnote.
• Peugeot 106 Rallye — 7.9 · 825 kg, steel wheels, no power steering — and 100 hp at 7,200 rpm.
• Ford Focus RS (Mk3) — 7.8 · The one hot hatch Ford finally did sell in America.
• Honda Civic Type R (FN2) — 7.8 · 8,000 rpm and a rear wing, no apologies.
• Renault Mégane RS 275 Trophy — 7.8 · The Trophy tune, minus the Ring-record price tag.
• Abarth Grande Punto / Punto Evo — 7.8 · The forgotten modern Abarth — a proper hot hatch nobody talks about.
• Chevrolet Cobalt SS — 7.8 · Held the front-wheel-drive Nordschleife record for a decade. From a Chevrolet dealer.
• Abarth 695 Biposto — 7.5 · Rear seats deleted, dog-ring gearbox optional. Abarth stopped pretending this was a city car.
• Toyota GR Corolla — 7.3 · The GR Yaris for the rest of us.
• Mercedes-AMG A 35 (W177) — 7.3 · AMG's entry ticket, priced like a warm-up.
• Citroën Saxo VTS — 7.3 · Cheap, thrashed, and adored — everything the Index rewards.
• Mini Cooper S (R53) — 7.3 · Go-kart handling, still cheap for a reason.
• SEAT Leon Cupra R — 7.3 · A Golf GTI in a sharper, cheaper suit.
• Peugeot 206 RC — 7.1 · The 206 GTI Peugeot should have sold everywhere.
• Renault 5 GT Turbo — 7.1 · 830 kg, a turbo far bigger than the engine wanted, and a reputation earned the hard way.
• Citroën AX Sport — 7.1 · 722 kg, two carburettors, white steel wheels, and a red stripe down each side.
• Smart Fortwo Brabus (450) — 7.0 · 698 cc, three cylinders, and alloy wheels wider than the car has any right to wear.
• Lancia Delta HF Turbo — 6.9 · The Delta that never got four-wheel drive, and never pretends otherwise.
• Honda Civic Type R (FL5) — 6.8 · Markup survivor, still a tool.
• Volkswagen Scirocco R — 6.8 · The Golf R's coupe cousin America never got to buy.
• Volkswagen Golf R32 (Mk4) — 6.8 · The VR6 hatch that invented the halo Golf.
• Renault Clio 182 Trophy — 6.3 · The £500 handling benchmark that grew up.
• Mercedes-AMG A 45 S (W177) — 6.3 · The 416 hp hatch that out-specs 2005 supercars.
• Honda Civic Type R (FK8) — 6.3 · America's first Type R, still worth what it cost.
• Honda Civic Type R (EP3) — 6.0 · The Type R America was never allowed to buy.
• Renault Mégane RS Trophy-R — 5.8 · A Ring record wearing a hatchback body, built to be used hard.
• Alfa Romeo 147 GTA — 5.8 · A V6 hot hatch that outgrew hot-hatch money.
• Mini John Cooper Works GP (F56) — 5.8 · Two seats, one wing, zero compromise.
• VW Golf GTI (Mk1) — 5.5 · The origin document.
• Renault Mégane R26.R — 5.5 · The hardcore-hatch benchmark, still lapping.
• Toyota GR Yaris — 5.3 · Rally homologation, garage temptation.
• Peugeot 205 GTI — 5.3 · The hot hatch blueprint, now blueprint-priced.
• Renault Clio Williams — 5.3 · The homologation hatch that made Clio a performance name.
• Volkswagen Corrado VR6 — 5.3 · The cult VW coupe with the right noise.
• Abarth 695 Tributo Ferrari — 4.8 · The numbered special that turned a hot hatch into a collectible.
• Renault Clio V6 — 4.0 · A mid-engine hot hatch, briefly legal.

Super saloons & wagons

• Mercedes-Benz E 300 BlueTEC Estate (S212) — 8.9 · The W123 300D's great-grandchild, doing the same job 300 km/h faster down the same autobahn.
• BMW 335d Touring (E91) — 8.7 · 580 Nm, 45 mpg and a dog in the boot — Europe's answer to almost every question.
• Volkswagen Arteon — 8.6 · Volkswagen's forgotten flagship, and the cheapest big car on the road.
• Saab 9-5 Aero — 8.5 · 250 hp, a dog in the back, and by 2015 it cost less than a used Golf.
• Acura TLX Type S — 8.4 · Honda built a proper sport sedan and almost nobody came to look.
• Mercedes-AMG E 63 S Estate — 8.3 · The enthusiast's family truck.
• Volvo 240 Turbo — 8.3 · It won the European Touring Car Championship. It also did the school run for thirty years.
• Audi allroad quattro (C5) — 8.2 · An A6 Avant that raises itself to 208 mm, and a repair bill that scared everyone else off.
• Genesis G70 3.3T — 8.1 · The 3 Series rival everyone told you to try, and then nobody bought.
• Audi RS7 Sportback — 8.0 · Four doors, 600 hp, genuinely anonymous bodywork.
• Volvo V60 Polestar Engineered — 8.0 · Öhlins dampers you adjust with a spanner, on a wagon nobody noticed.
• Cadillac CT6 — 7.9 · Cadillac's last real flagship, killed by a factory closure.
• BMW M5 (F90) — 7.8 · Businessman's missile, actually used.
• Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio — 7.8 · Bought with the heart, driven with it too.
• Mercedes-AMG C 63 (W204) — 7.8 · The naturally aspirated V8 C-Class, driven till it's used up.
• BMW M3 (F80) — 7.8 · The turbo M3 everyone complained about, and the one everyone actually drives.
• Lexus LS 500h — 7.8 · The most over-engineered way to be bored, and the best value in the class.
• Audi RS6 Avant (C8) — 7.5 · The wagon that replaced the SUV — sometimes.
• VW Phaeton W12 — 7.5 · Flagship engineering, hatchback money — and driven like it.
• Audi RS 3 — 7.4 · The five-cylinder sedan Audi almost didn't bring here.
• Lexus GS F — 7.4 · The forgotten F car, and the cheapest way into the engine.
• Audi RS4 Avant (B7) — 7.3 · The 8,250 rpm family wagon Audi never topped.
• Mercedes-AMG C 63 S (W205) — 7.3 · The last V8 C-Class, driven like it owes rent.
• Mercedes-AMG CLS 53 — 7.3 · The design purchase, dailyed politely.
• Kia Stinger GT — 7.3 · The value play, numb steering included.
• BMW M3 (G80) — 7.3 · Forgive the face, respect the usage.
• BMW M340i — 7.3 · The M3 alternative that doesn't apologize for being one.
• Alpina D3 Bi-Turbo — 7.2 · Diesel torque, Alpina restraint, real-world pace.
• Mercedes-Benz E 55 AMG (W211) — 7.1 · The supercharged executive sledgehammer.
• BMW M5 (E39) — 7.0 · The benchmark, still commuting.
• Lexus IS F — 7.0 · The reliability play for V8 addicts.
• Lexus IS 500 F Sport Performance — 7.0 · The last naturally aspirated V8 compact sport sedan, full stop.
• Alpina B3 Touring — 7.0 · The M3 wagon for people with taste and dogs.
• Volvo 850 T-5R — 7.0 · The yellow-brick touring-car myth.
• Audi RS6 Avant (C7) — 7.0 · 560 PS of estate car, and America was still not invited.
• Audi RS4 Avant (B8) — 6.9 · The last naturally aspirated RS4, and the last one with a redline worth using.
• Alfa Romeo 75 Turbo — 6.8 · A rear-transaxle, De Dion-axled sports saloon shaped like a filing cabinet.
• Audi S4 Avant (B5) — 6.8 · The biturbo V6 that started a whole tuning industry, in the cheaper body.
• Aston Martin Rapide — 6.7 · The four-door V12 nobody bought new and plenty now buy used.
• Audi RS6 Avant (C6) — 6.7 · The only RS6 with ten cylinders, and the only one that scares its owners financially.
• Mercedes-Benz 500E — 6.5 · Porsche built it; owners drive it.
• Audi S6 (C6) V10 — 6.5 · The Lamborghini-derived V10 Audi never put in another S6.
• Jaguar XE SV Project 8 — 6.5 · 300 units, hand-built in Coventry, 600 hp and 0 subtlety.
• Jaguar XJ Super V8 — 6.5 · Four hundred supercharged horsepower for the price of a used Golf.
• Audi RS5 Sportback — 6.4 · The usable RS that forgot to be wild.
• BMW M3 (E90/E92) — 6.3 · The 8,400 rpm V8 detour.
• Cadillac CTS-V Wagon — 6.3 · The manual wagon unicorn, actually driven.
• Cadillac CT4-V Blackwing — 6.3 · The cheaper Blackwing, bought for the stick, not the badge.
• Audi S8 — 6.3 · The Q-ship that outruns its own badge.
• BMW M5 (G90) — 6.3 · 717 hybrid horsepower, and the weight to prove it.
• Audi RS4 Avant (B5) — 6.3 · Cosworth reworked the S4's V6 and Audi only ever built it as an estate.
• Mercedes-Benz CLS 63 AMG Shooting Brake — 6.2 · The AMG wagon that refused to look practical.
• Alfa Romeo 156 GTA — 6.1 · 250 hp of Busso V6 in a family saloon, driving the front wheels.
• BMW M5 (E34) — 6.0 · Hand-built six, business suit.
• Vauxhall Lotus Carlton / Opel Lotus Omega — 5.9 · The moral panic never made it faster; it just made it famous.
• BMW M5 (E60) — 5.8 · An F1 V10 with a rod-bearing subscription.
• Mercedes-AMG GT 63 S 4-Door — 5.8 · The four-door AMG that actually earns its mileage.
• Porsche Panamera Turbo Sport Turismo — 5.8 · The Porsche wagon that became a boardroom express.
• Audi RS6 (C5) — 5.7 · 450 PS, five automatic gears, and the first RS Audi Americans could buy.
• Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing — 5.5 · A supercharged V8 and a stick, from Cadillac.
• BMW M5 CS — 5.5 · The apology that became the benchmark.
• Dodge Charger Hellcat — 5.3 · 717 hp of standing still, loudly.
• Audi RS2 Avant — 4.8 · The five-cylinder wagon that started Fast Audi.
• BMW M760i — 4.8 · A V12 boardroom missile nobody asked to corner.
• BMW M5 (E28) — 4.5 · The first M5 hid the M1's engine in a company car.
• Alfa Romeo Giulia GTA — 3.5 · The Quadrifoglio, stripped, and never sold here.

Analog classics

• Mercedes-Benz 300D (W123) — 9.1 · The car that made “it'll do half a million kilometres” a thing people say out loud.
• Renault 4 — 8.6 · Over eight million built, a gearlever through the dashboard, and a different wheelbase on each side.
• Saab 900 Turbo (classic) — 8.0 · The ignition is between the seats, the screen wraps around you, and it will do 300,000 miles.
• Mini (Issigonis original) — 7.7 · Five point four million built, and sixty-five years on nobody has improved the packaging.
• Fiat X1/9 — 7.6 · A mid-engined targa for hatchback money — which is why so many got used up.
• Mazda MX-5 (NA) — 7.3 · Where the answer started.
• Porsche 968 Club Sport — 7.3 · Delete the radio, add a gear, keep the Porsche.
• Porsche 944 — 7.0 · The affordable Porsche that stayed honest.
• Porsche Boxster (986) — 7.0 · The Porsche people bought to actually drive, and mostly did.
• Chevrolet Corvette (C3) — 7.0 · Fifteen model years, 435 hp down to 165, and no reason to store one.
• Ferrari Mondial — 7.0 · The Ferrari everyone calls the worst one, and the one they actually drive.
• Reliant Scimitar GTE — 7.0 · The sporting estate, invented in Tamworth, in fibreglass, by the three-wheeler company.
• Porsche 914 — 6.8 · Ridiculed for fifty years, and still the best-balanced old Porsche.
• Ferrari 400i — 6.5 · A V12 Ferrari with an automatic from General Motors, never sold in America.
• Alfa Romeo GTV6 — 6.4 · The Busso V6, with the gearbox at the other end of the car.
• DeLorean DMC-12 — 6.3 · Slow, famous, and genuinely kept — which is the only thing this index measures.
• Porsche 911 SC — 6.0 · The air-cooled 911 people still dare to use.
• Ferrari 308 GT4 — 6.0 · Bertone drew it, Dino badged it, and Ferrari spent decades apologising.
• Lamborghini Espada — 6.0 · Four full seats, a V12 up front, and none of the theatre Lamborghini is known for.
• Ford Sierra RS Cosworth — 5.8 · The UK's most-stolen car, chased down by its own kind.
• Porsche 912 — 5.8 · The 911 body without the 911 engine — or the 911 tax.
• Lamborghini Urraco — 5.8 · Lamborghini’s first V8, aimed at the 911, and killed by the company’s own accounts.
• Alfa Romeo Giulia GTA (105) — 5.5 · 745kg of aluminum that beat cars twice its size. Still does, on a historic grid.
• Porsche 911 GT3 (997) — 5.5 · The GT3 America was finally allowed to buy.
• Ferrari 348 — 5.5 · Judged against the 328 behind it and the F355 in front, and lost both times.
• Ford Escort RS Cosworth — 5.4 · The whale tail wasn't decoration; the physics were real.
• Lotus Elan S1 — 5.4 · 660 kg, a backbone chassis, and the handling benchmark for forty years.
• BMW M3 (E46) — 5.3 · The balance benchmark, priced accordingly.
• Ferrari Dino 246 GT — 5.3 · The Ferrari that isn't badged a Ferrari. Owners still drive it like one.
• BMW 2002 Turbo — 5.3 · Europe's first turbo road car. Still the most honest small BMW ever built.
• Porsche 911 Carrera 2.7 RS — 5.3 · The original RS. Every 911 badge since has been chasing it.
• De Tomaso Pantera — 5.3 · Italian body, Ford small-block underneath. The exotic you can actually fix yourself.
• Lamborghini Jalpa — 5.3 · The only small Lamborghini of the Countach years, and the last until the Gallardo.
• Porsche 911 Turbo (930) — 5.3 · The one that earned the reputation the later ones had to live down.
• Porsche 928 — 5.0 · The transaxle GT finally getting respect.
• Mercedes-Benz 300 SEL 6.3 — 5.0 · The pre-AMG Q-car origin story.
• Jaguar XJ-S V12 — 5.0 · It had to follow the E-Type. Buyers still haven't forgiven it.
• Lamborghini Islero — 5.0 · Ferruccio’s own car: the Miura’s V12 in a body designed not to be noticed.
• Porsche 911 (964) — 4.8 · Air-cooled tax in full effect.
• Porsche 911 GT3 (996) — 4.8 · The original GT3, still illegal to buy new here.
• Porsche 356 Coupé — 4.8 · The reason 'Porsche' has always meant light, not fast.
• Audi Quattro (Ur-Quattro) — 4.8 · The five-cylinder warble that invented modern AWD.
• Ferrari 308 GTB — 4.8 · The V8 that had to follow the Dino, then outsold it forever.
• Jensen Interceptor — 4.6 · An Italian body, a British chassis, and the largest V8 Chrysler would sell to a foreigner.
• Datsun 240Z — 4.5 · The first affordable exotic, twice.
• Maserati Merak — 4.4 · The Bora's cheaper brother, with the Citroën SM's engine and three times the sales.
• Porsche 911 (993) — 4.3 · The last air-cooled 911, priced like it.
• Lotus Esprit Turbo — 4.3 · The chassis was always right. Everything bolted to it wasn't.
• Lancia Fulvia HF — 4.3 · Won the Monte Carlo Rally outright on 115 hp and front-wheel drive.
• Ferrari F355 — 4.0 · The best-sounding Ferrari, billed hourly.
• Ferrari 250 GT Lusso — 4.0 · Doug gave it a 10 for styling and a 1 for acceleration. Both are the point.
• Jaguar E-Type (Series 1) — 4.0 · Enzo called it the most beautiful car ever made. He didn't say the most driven.
• Fiat-Abarth 695 SS — 4.0 · Abarth's answer to 'what if the 595 wasn't big enough.'
• Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray (C2) — 4.0 · The Corvette that got independent rear suspension — and the shape everybody still draws.
• BMW M3 (E30) — 3.8 · Homologation royalty, now vaulted.
• Lancia Delta HF Integrale — 3.8 · Rally royalty, now stored dry.
• Alfa Romeo SZ — 3.8 · Voted ugliest at launch; the styling is the whole point now.
• Fiat-Abarth 595 — 3.8 · The first scorpion-badged Fiat 500 — everything after it is a remix.
• Porsche 911 Turbo (993) — 3.8 · The last air-cooled Turbo, and the first one that hooks up.
• Porsche 356 Speedster — 3.8 · Built cheap for American racers, priced now like a Ferrari.
• MG Metro 6R4 — 3.7 · The one Group B car that never used a turbo — and still gets rallied.
• Opel Manta 400 — 3.6 · Two hundred and forty-five road cars, and a rulebook is the only reason any of them exist.
• Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing — 3.5 · The original halo car, now behind glass.
• Renault 5 Turbo — 3.5 · A Renault 5 with the engine where the back seat used to be.
• Ford Mustang Boss 302 — 3.5 · A rulebook made this car twice, and moved the goalposts in between.
• Ferrari F40 — 3.3 · The pin-up, permanently pinned up.
• Porsche 959 — 3.3 · Tomorrow's AWD, arriving forty years early.
• Mercedes-Benz 190E 2.5-16 Evolution II — 3.3 · The E30 M3's nemesis, now impossible to just drive.
• Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 — 3.3 · Won back-to-back WRC titles wearing a shopping-hatchback badge.
• BMW 3.0 CSL — 3.3 · Built to homologate a racer; priced like one now.
• Maserati Bora — 3.3 · Citroën's hydraulics, Giugiaro's shape, Ferrari money — eventually.
• Fiat-Abarth 1000 TCR — 3.3 · The 'Giant Killer' that beat V8s from a stripped Fiat 600 shell.
• Porsche 911 Carrera RS (964) — 3.3 · Europe got the real one. America got the RS America.
• Fiat 131 Abarth Rally — 3.2 · Three WRC titles from a car most people only knew as a sedan.
• Fiat-Abarth 850 TC — 3.2 · The touring-car legend everything else on this shelf descends from.
• Shelby Cobra 427 — 3.0 · 425 horsepower, a live axle, and no traction control. Nobody's daily-driving that.
• Lancia Stratos HF Stradale — 3.0 · Built to win rallies, now too precious to leave the trailer.
• Audi Sport Quattro — 3.0 · Cost more than a Countach new; still does, adjusted for scarcity.
• Fiat 124 Abarth Rally — 3.0 · A homologation special dressed as a Fiat Spider — 1,013 built, one rulebook satisfied.
• Ferrari 288 GTO — 3.0 · Homologated for a Group B season that never happened.
• Ford RS200 — 2.9 · Built purely to rally; barely got the chance before Group B ended.
• Fiat-Abarth 750 Record Monza — 2.9 · No double bubble, one Bialbero head, 100 built — the Zagato racer wearing the record run's name.
• Lamborghini Miura (P400) — 2.8 · The first supercar. Also one of the first cars too valuable to actually drive.
• Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0 — 2.8 · 600 built, the last Mezger flat-six RS, mostly parked since the first auction result.
• Lancia 037 Stradale — 2.8 · The last RWD car to win a WRC title — a record that can't be broken.
• Ferrari 512 BB — 2.8 · Testarossa's predecessor, and Ferrari never sold it here.
• Fiat-Abarth 750 GT Zagato — 2.8 · The double-bubble roof existed to fit a helmet. Now it barely fits in a trailer.
• Abarth-Simca 2000 GT — 2.8 · 204 hp from 2 liters in a 740 kg body — the Simca-partnership years, before Chrysler ended them.
• Fiat-Abarth 1000 Bialbero — 2.7 · A twin-cam screamer that beat bigger cars in period. Bruce McLaren drove one to a class win.
• RUF CTR "Yellowbird" — 2.5 · The widowmaker that out-ran the factory Turbo.
• Lancia Delta S4 Stradale — 2.5 · Solved Group B's turbo-lag problem; still too valuable to floor it.
• Abarth 1300 OT Periscopica — 2.5 · A roof-mounted periscope existed to stop drivers roasting alive in endurance races.
• Toyota 2000GT — 2.3 · Toyota's proof of concept. The market decided it was also a masterpiece.
• Mazda Cosmo Sport 110S — 2.3 · 1,176 cars, and the first twin-rotor engine anybody managed to sell.
• Ford GT40 (Mk I road) — 2.0 · Built to kill Ferrari at Le Mans. Now too valuable to leave the paddock.
• Abarth 205A Berlinetta — 1.7 · Carlo Abarth's first car under his own name. Three were built; expect to see one only in a museum.

Lightweights

• Caterham Seven — 7.8 · The reference point.
• Lotus Elise (S2) — 7.0 · Feel per kilogram, unbeaten.
• Abarth 124 Spider — 7.0 · MX-5 bones, Italian turbo theatre, and 41,000 of them built — the volume 124 next to the rare GT.
• Ariel Atom — 6.8 · A chassis with a license plate.
• Morgan Plus Four — 6.8 · A wooden frame and no irony.
• Ariel Nomad — 6.8 · The Atom that plays in the dirt.
• Abarth 124 GT — 6.8 · Miata bones with Italian turbo theatre.
• BAC Mono — 6.5 · A single seat, a single purpose.
• Morgan Plus Six — 6.4 · BMW turbo punch in a vintage costume.
• Morgan 3-Wheeler — 6.2 · Two litres of exposed V-twin, one driven wheel, and no argument for any of it.
• Vauxhall VX220 — 6.0 · Lotus bones without the Lotus tax.
• Lotus Exige Cup 430 — 6.0 · Hethel's last and hardest Exige — manual only, on purpose.
• Lotus 2-Eleven — 5.8 · An Exige with the roof, the doors and the windscreen deleted.
• Donkervoort D8 GTO — 5.4 · 695 kg, an RS 3 engine, and a Dutch workshop that builds a few dozen a year.
• KTM X-Bow — 4.7 · A carbon monocoque for 911 money, and no roof, doors or windscreen.

Performance SUVs

• Porsche Macan GTS — 9.3 · The enthusiast's school run.
• Toyota Land Cruiser (J200) — 9.3 · The vehicle you buy when you have decided to stop buying vehicles.
• Škoda Yeti — 8.5 · A box on stilts with three removable rear seats, and owners who refused to replace it.
• Chevrolet Silverado ZR2 — 8.1 · Formula 1 dampers under a work truck, and it earns them.
• Land Rover Defender 90 (classic) — 7.9 · Twenty-six years of the same car, and the last one left the line in January 2016.
• Lincoln Navigator L Black Label — 7.9 · A hundred thousand dollars of quiet, and sixty of it gone in six years.
• Jeep Grand Wagoneer — 7.8 · A hundred-thousand-dollar Jeep, and the badge is the cheap part.
• Audi SQ7 — 7.5 · Seven seats, 500 hp, and nobody outside the family will ever notice.
• Porsche Cayenne Turbo GT — 7.3 · The SUV bought on lap time.
• Ford F-150 Raptor — 7.3 · The desert-racer trim that never stopped selling.
• Alfa Stelvio Quadrifoglio — 7.0 · The Giulia's tall accomplice.
• Porsche Cayenne Turbo (955) — 6.8 · The segment's origin, now $15k of V8.
• Ram TRX — 6.5 · Hellcat pickup, desert fantasy included.
• Mercedes-Benz R 63 AMG — 6.3 · The AMG minivan fever dream.
• Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 392 — 6.3 · A 6.4-litre V8 in a car with removable doors and a folding windscreen.
• Ford Bronco Raptor — 6.1 · A desert racer sold through a normal dealership, with the roof optional.
• BMW X3 M Competition — 5.9 · The M3's engine, mounted 250 mm higher and asked to behave.
• Land Rover Defender 110 V8 (L663) — 5.9 · The supercharged one, on the aluminium monocoque — not the farm tool.
• Dodge Durango Hellcat — 5.8 · Three rows, one Hellcat engine, zero restraint.
• Audi RS Q8 — 5.7 · The Urus formula in a darker suit.
• BMW X5 M — 5.5 · The school run, supercharged by ego.
• Mercedes-AMG GLC 63 S — 5.5 · The school-run C63 on stilts.
• BMW XM — 5.3 · Nobody's sure who this is for, least of all the resale market.
• Maserati Levante Trofeo — 5.3 · A Ferrari-built V8 in the SUV nobody wanted to be seen buying.
• BMW Alpina XB7 — 5.1 · Alpina polish applied to maximum mass.
• Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk — 5.0 · A Hellcat for the whole family.
• Volkswagen Golf Country — 5.0 · A Golf on stilts in 1990, thirty years before anyone thought to call it a crossover.
• Aston Martin DBX707 — 4.8 · The sports-car excuse, elevated.
• Cadillac Escalade-V — 4.8 · 682 supercharged horsepower, delivered to the third-row captain's chairs.
• BYD Yangwang U8 — 4.3 · Four motors, a petrol generator, and a party trick involving water.
• Lamborghini Urus — 4.0 · A statement with a chassis.
• Range Rover Velar SVAutobiography — 4.0 · A supercharged V8 in the Range Rover least interested in being driven.
• Mercedes-AMG G 65 — 3.3 · A V12 truck bought for the badge, not the drive.
• Lamborghini LM002 — 3.3 · A Countach V12 wearing a military body — score it honestly.
• Ferrari Purosangue — 3.0 · A V12 curtsy to the school run.
• Mercedes-Benz G 500 4x4² — 2.6 · Portal axles, two metres of width, and almost nowhere to put it.
• Mercedes-AMG G 63 6x6 — 2.2 · Portal-axle theatre at military scale.

Performance EVs

• Hyundai Ioniq 5 N — 8.5 · The EV that argues for the category.
• Jaguar I-Pace — 8.5 · A $70,000 Jaguar that became a $20,000 Jaguar, and is finally being used.
• Polestar 2 — 8.3 · Nobody has ever flipped one. Everybody drives theirs into the ground.
• Tesla Model Y Performance — 8.3 · The most-driven fast car on this entire site.
• Ford Mustang Mach-E GT — 8.0 · The name argument is over. The school run is not.
• Mercedes-Benz EQS 450+ — 7.9 · The steepest depreciation Mercedes has ever engineered.
• Kia EV6 GT — 7.8 · Kia built a drift mode. Nobody asked, everybody uses it.
• BMW i5 M60 — 7.8 · 593 hp of executive saloon that never makes a sound.
• Porsche Taycan GTS — 7.3 · Precision, minus the noise.
• BMW i4 M50 — 7.3 · The quiet commuter in an M costume.
• Genesis GV60 Performance — 7.0 · A boost button, a crystal sphere, and nobody watching.
• Ford F-150 Lightning — 7.0 · America's best-selling vehicle, electrified, and then discounted onto the lot.
• BMW i3 — 6.8 · The carbon-tub city car nobody else dared build.
• BMW iX M60 — 6.8 · 610 hp, 2.66 tonnes, and everyone argued about the grille instead.
• Rivian R1T — 6.3 · An EV truck people actually take off the pavement.
• Audi RS e-tron GT — 6.3 · A Taycan underneath, an Audi on the used-car sheet.
• Tesla Model X Plaid — 6.0 · The school run, now with launch control.
• Porsche Taycan Turbo GT — 6.0 · The Ring record nobody asked for, gloriously.
• Abarth 500e — 6.0 · The scorpion goes electric. The exhaust note is now a speaker.
• Abarth 600e — 5.9 · The scorpion's first hot EV crossover — 280 hp and a synthesized howl.
• Tesla Model S Plaid — 5.8 · 1,020 hp for the on-ramp.
• GMC Hummer EV Pickup — 5.5 · Four tonnes of irony, fully electrified.
• Lucid Air Sapphire — 4.0 · 1,234 hp, whispered.
• Polestar 1 — 4.0 · A carbon-bodied hybrid GT built 1,500 times, then deliberately stopped.
• Xiaomi SU7 Ultra — 3.0 · A Nürburgring lap record nobody in America can buy.
• Cadillac Celestiq — 3.0 · $340,000, about two a day, and a mood board.
• Rimac Nevera — 2.3 · 1,914 hp, delivered to storage.
• Lotus Evija — 2.3 · Two thousand horsepower announcing a brand change.

The trophy shelf

• Bentley Arnage T — 5.8 · The last hand-built Crewe V8, now hot-hatch money.
• Bentley Continental GT Speed — 5.3 · The first 200-mph Bentley, now priced like a used German saloon.
• Maybach 62 — 5.0 · The worst investment in the index, and better for it.
• Mercedes-Maybach GLS 600 — 4.7 · The back seat is the product. The rest is delivery.
• Mercedes-AMG G 63 — 4.5 · A military box for the valet line.
• Bentley Flying Spur — 4.5 · The Rolls rival for people who might drive it themselves.
• Bentley Continental GT — 4.5 · The GT that started the modern Bentley era — and defined badge-ownership in the 2000s.
• Mercedes-Maybach S-Class — 4.3 · The back seat Mercedes builds an entire car around.
• Rolls-Royce Cullinan — 3.8 · The throne room, elevated.
• Rolls-Royce Spectre — 3.8 · Silence as a status symbol.
• Rolls-Royce Ghost (II) — 3.7 · The Rolls-Royce its owner actually drives, which is a low bar cleared.
• Rolls-Royce Phantom (VIII) — 3.5 · The original valet-line trophy, still rear-seat-first.
• Mercedes-AMG SL 73 — 3.5 · The forgotten AMG V12 with Pagani DNA.
• Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Series — 3.2 · The gullwing turned into a track weapon.
• Lamborghini Aventador SV — 3.1 · The rawer Aventador before SVJ mythology.
• Bentley Mulsanne — 2.9 · The last Crewe flagship, and the last of a V8 that started in 1959.
• Ferrari 599 GTO — 2.8 · A front-V12 track special too valuable to risk.
• Rolls-Royce Wraith — 2.3 · The sportiest Rolls-Royce is still 2.4 tonnes of British theatre.
• Aston Martin Lagonda Taraf — 2.0 · 120 built, a million dollars each, and Aston never explained why.
• Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse — 1.9 · The open-top 250-mph crown jewel.

Coming soon

• Mercedes-AMG CLA 45 EV — TBD · AMG's four-door electric gamble, now official.
• BMW M3 CS Handschalter — TBD · The last three-pedal M3, pre-marked-up.
• Honda Prelude — TBD · The name is back; the clutch pedal isn't.
• BMW iM3 (Neue Klasse) — TBD · Four motors to recreate one straight-six.
• Tesla Roadster (2nd gen) — TBD · Eight years of deposits, zero owners.