Cars

Civic Type R

The driver's benchmark in the hot hatch class. Four decades, five generations, one of the most committed FWD platforms ever built.

Civic Si

The everyday enthusiast Honda, still.

Integra Type S

The Type R that wears a suit.

Golf R

All-wheel-drive sleeper, every weather.

Golf GTI

The original. Still the template.

GR Corolla

Rally-bred turbo triple. Toyota remembered.

GR Yaris

The homologation special everyone wants and nobody got.

Elantra N

The hot sedan Koreans built while everyone else gave up.

Audi RS3

Five cylinders, all-wheel-drive, no apologies.

Audi S3

The reasonable RS3, except it isn't.

Mercedes-AMG A45

The most powerful production four-cylinder, daily edition.

BMW M135i

The M Performance hatch the M2 fans pretend they hate.

Mini John Cooper Works

Go-kart hot hatch, John Cooper Works tune.

Porsche 911 GT3 RS

Toyota GR86

The everyman sports car, sharpened.

Subaru BRZ

Twin-of-the-86, with a quieter personality.

Mazda MX-5 Miata

Lightweight, rear-drive, manual roadster. The blueprint nobody else has the discipline to ship.

Porsche Cayman GT4

Mid-engine, naturally aspirated, finally legitimate.

Porsche Boxster Spyder

The roadster the purists kept asking for.

Porsche 911 GT3

Six generations of naturally aspirated, motorsport-derived 911. The benchmark for what a road-legal track car should be.

Toyota Supra

Mk4 to A90 — two halves, one nameplate.

Nissan Z

Five letters of Z heritage, finally turbocharged again.

BMW M2

The last small M coupe with a stick.

BMW M3

Six generations, six different engine architectures, one of the most consistently re-evaluated nameplates in performance cars.

BMW M4

M3 in coupe form. The original idea, reasserted.

Chevrolet Corvette C8

Mid-engine America. The shift everyone underestimated.

Lotus Emira

Lotus, but you can live with it.

Ford Mustang

V8 pony car, from Boss 302 to the Dark Horse.

BMW M5

The original super-sedan — V8, V10, and back to V8 hybrid.

Honda Prelude

The four-wheel-steered icon returns as a hybrid coupe.

Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing

Supercharged V8, six-speed manual — the M5 antidote from Detroit.

Hyundai Ioniq 5 N

The EV that made enthusiasts care — fake shifts and all.

Audi RS5

The RS coupe — from screaming 4.2 V8 to twin-turbo V6.

Lexus LC 500

Concept-car looks, naturally aspirated V8 — the GT Lexus dared to build.

Porsche 911 Turbo

All-weather all-wheel-drive supercar — plus the RWD GT2 outlier.

Nissan GT-R

Skyline GT-R to Godzilla. Four decades of pursuit.

Porsche 718 GTS 4.0

The flat-six comes back to the mid-engine Porsche — manual GTS 4.0.

BMW M5 Touring

Eight cylinders, five seats, one continent of luggage.

Audi RS6 Avant

The wagon that made wagons cool again.

Audi RS4 Avant

The RS6's smaller, sharper sibling.

Mercedes-AMG E63 Wagon

Twin-turbo V8. Sleeper of the autobahn.

Volvo V60 Polestar

Sweden's answer, in the only body style that matters.