Sinclair C5
The C5 was stupid-looking, probably dangerous, but strangely prescient and now kind of retro and cool. Clive Sinclair’s doomed project was the product of the extreme entrepreneurialism of the early eighties.
The Buckeye Bullet
A student-constructed electric vehicle that recently set a land speed record at 307 MPH
This 897-horsepower twin-turbocharged Suzuki SX4 negotiated the 12.42 mile Pikes Peak course in 10 minutes and 11.49 seconds.
McLaren F1
The long-time holder of the fastest-car title, engine bay lined with gold makes it the most bling too
Maybach 62
The biggest car currently on sale, but a sales disaster for parent Mercedes-Benz: crass, ugly and overly bling. Also the heaviest.
Smart ForTwo:
Currently the shortest car on sale but Gordon Murray’s new T25 city car will be 30cm shorter and have an extra perch
Caparo T1:
You’d struggle to call it a car, but it does wear number plates and has a power-to-weight ratio that blitzes anything else you can buy with 575bhp in a body weighing less than half a tonne
Bugatti Veyron Super Sports
Not again! But we didn’t mention that alongside all its other records, it’s also the most expensive and least-efficient car you can currently buy?
Compiled by Michael Fordham & Ben Oliver