The Best Cars Of All Time

The World's Greatest Cars. In Detail

From Bugattis to Ferraris and Porsches to Dusenbergs, the team at Sports Car Digest have decided to create profiles of some of the best cars ever produced. We didn't rank the top 100 cars ever because we don't want hate mail but we dive into the details and history of these historic, rare and desirable machines. Some of these cars are historically significant, some are about pushing the automotive technology of their time, while others are just the pinnacle of the driving experience - engaging, fast and fun. On this page we take a look at some of the most memorable sports cars of all time, all of them iconic and recognizable to any car-obsessed fan reading this site. These are the cars that get our blood flowing here at Sports Car Digest, from vintage racers to classics to the latest supercar offerings, we realize that there are myriad discussions debates over which ones are the most memorable, the most celebrated and the most remarkable. Ignore the debates and refrain from picking an overall winner. Just sit back and celebrate.

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The benefit of wider tires of this M-B 500E are visible as it’s pressed hard through a bend. The Porsche touch ensured a near-50/50 front/rear weight distribution.

Porsche Makes a Mercedes: The 500E Story

Editor’s Note: This story was reproduced with permission from our companion website Stuttcars.com. A New Opportunity for Porsche For Porsche’s Michael Hölscher this was his first major project. It was...

Opala: American by Heart, Brazilian Excellence

The Roots of the Opala Established in Brazil on January 26, 1925, General Motors’ Brazilian subsidiary – Companhia Geral de Motores do Brasil S.A., later General Motors of Brazil (GMB)...

The McLaren F1 – Never Better

If you had to pick one car to represent the most advanced design of the 20th century, it would be difficult to choose a vehicle more significant, more outrageous, or...

Leyland’s Eight — The First Supercar 

A Bold Vision from Leyland Motors Conditions in Britain’s world of car producers changed radically after the Great War. The war itself contributed. Increasingly regarded as a symbol of unpatriotic...

The Many Lives of the McLaren M25

ALLIANCES NEVER LAST FOREVER Almost synonymous with the bubbling motorsport scene of the early 1970s, Bruce McLaren Motor Racing was what one might consider a manufacturer that knew how to...
In front of the Austro-Daimler headquarters in the autumn of 1922 Ferdinand Pors

Porsche’s Grand Prix Austro Daimlers

Background and Post-War Context Coming out of World War 1, Ferdinand Porsche was in complete charge of Austro Daimler, one of the greatest and most versatile manufacturing companies of the...

The Volkswagen SP and SP2

The current automobile industry is suffering from a lack of new unique and exclusive designs, increasingly seeking standardization across different markets around the world. This involves especially rationalizing processes, in...
Its fastest lap of 4:26.0 was the quickest ever turned by a Cunningham entry at Le Mans, but it took ten seconds longer than the best lap of Ferrari’s latest 4.9-liter V-12.

The Ferrari That Went American

Cunningham’s Mission to Build an American Sports Car In retrospect, it’s no easy task to communicate what the Cunningham sports cars meant to car enthusiasts in America in the mid-20th...
One of only two drivers to finish in the car they started, Fangio was hailed the victor at the Buenos Aires Autodromo at a speed of 77.509 mph. DaimlerAG

Every Silver Arrow Has Its Day

Fangio’s Advantage and Moss’s Arrival Juan Manuel Fangio had a head start. He joined the Mercedes-Benz racing team in mid-1954, when his principal team rival was a fast but inconsistent...
Photo Credit: Bill Purta

Ferrari Comes Full Circle at 360

The 1990s were a booming period of time for car manufacturers. Having built up refreshingly needed relief from the disastrous lull of the late 1970s and early 80s, the late...
Two generations of Renndiensts pose for the birdie. One is a veteran of the 1960s, the other from the twenty-tens foretelling the future.

Renndienst: Racing Toward the Future

With relationships between Porsche and Volkswagen fructifying in many ways over the years, even decades, this one was inevitable. Its basis was the third generation of the sainted van, sold...

Need for Speed: The Fastest Mercedes-Benz

Auto Union started this new craze for record‑breaking. The pastime had always been left to the British, the French, the Italians, even the Americans. Surprisingly few German names were among...
1937 Cord 812 Phaeton

The Cord 810/812

The Cord 810 was a sensation when it was revealed to the public in November of 1935. With its strikingly attractive styling and advanced design, these cars captured the imagination...
This was the world’s first sight of the Indianapolis-bound 3.0-litre Bentley during its shakedown at Brooklands. Frank Clement joined Douglas Hawkes for its exercise.

The Bentley That Went to Indy

Douggie could have talked W.O. into it. It was such a bizarre idea that the boss would not have dreamed it up on his own. And Wallace Douglas ‘Douggie’ Hawkes...
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1959 Behra-Porsche F2

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1939 Mercedes-Benz W165 – V for Voiturette

Fed up with seeing their major races won by the Germans in the 1930s, the Italians allowed only 1½-liter entries in their 1939 races to eliminate their opposition. They reckoned...
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