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Based on a French family car, the A110 miraculously rose to the highest ranks in the world of rally racing.

Twin-turbo power, taut sheet metal and scintillating driving dynamics made for one hell of a ride.

Only six AMX/3 were ever built.

The BMW E39 M5 sits at the top of the sports sedan food chain.

The Audi Sport Quattro brought to light the benefits of all-wheel-drive, a game-changer for rally.

The Jensen Interceptor took Italian design, infused it with British luxury and armed it American power.

The Karmann Ghia will never set any land speed records, but the small, sporty coupe was the perfect post-war car for VW.

The original Maserati Ghibli is a force of engineering — a grand tourer that’s legendary in both performance and design.

The Mercedes-Benz 500E emerged from the tire smoke of the iconic AMG Hammer 300E and gave the world a proper Euro-sleeper that toed the line between insane and stately.

In the pantheon of automotive design, there exist but a few gods whose thrones will likely never be usurped — the Lamborghini Miura staunchly occupies one of those glorious gilded chairs.

AMG’s stratospheric rise to the pinnacle of motorsports can only be attributed to one mountain-moving sedan: The Red Pig.

You can’t build a successful SUV today without incorporating comforts like leather and DVD players alongside trail-dominating suspension and chunky all-terrain tires.

The Willys-Overland Jeep not only helped win World War II, it wrote the recipe for every Sport Utility vehicle that followed.

Your closest encounter with the winter beast known as the Tucker Sno-Cat was probably watching as scientists and explorers with frozen beards made their way through parts unknown in an episode of National Geographic. What you probably don’t know is that these cold-capable snow monsters materialized out of one man’s desire to find a better method of snow travel, or that they comprise a proud family of multi-purpose vehicles that got their start way back in 1942.

The Ferrari Enzo and F40 need no introduction — they’ve virtually been canonized. There is a Ferrari supercar, however, that travels under the radar compared to its two aforementioned (and more modern) brothers.

The BMW M3 easily shows up in the top 10 performance cars on just about every critic’s list. With the new M3 just on the horizon, it’s time to pay homage to the original: the BMW E30 M3.

Looking like the combination of a duck’s bill and a chisel, the Lancia Stratos was developed as an homologation car (production numbers to justify its rally racing intentions) a year after the revolutionary Lancia Stratos HF Zero car debuted. It was a car with virtually limitless rallying potential based on its design and performance.

It’s easy to marvel at modern supercars — the Bugatti Veyron, Ferrari 458 Italia and Lamborghini Aventador. They’re remarkable automobiles that almost defy logic, packed with technology that can turn just about anybody into a semi-competent driver.