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The 25 sexiest cars of all time
Our picks for the most stylish cars ever made.
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Sorry, Prius—you were thiiiis close.
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Things that will always be cool: looking like the preppy villain from an ‘80s movie; Jay Z’s video for “Song Cry”; all-black cars patterned after fighter jets.
The thinking man’s supercar: fast, light, nimble, and so impeccably engineered, they barely changed it from 1990 to 2005.
Sexy enough to turn heads, but not enough to draw the paparazzi every time you go out for milk.
And its coming back.
It’s an outside-the-box luxury four-door, but even more sumptuous and unexpected.
And terribly exclusive, too: only 200 will be made, offered (not sold) specific clients in the Middle East and select bits of Europe.
Time to ask your real estate agent about listings in Monaco and Dubai—you’ve got a guy, right?
A Bugatti? How gauche.
If you want to drop millions at auction for the cutting edge of fanciful '30s Deco car design, go for one of these, from the revolutionary French maker whose name disappeared over half a century ago.
Yeah, I drive a multi-million-dollar classic. But you probably haven’t even heard of it.
The crowning achievement of late-70s/early-80s automobile angularity, and the second most iconic Bond car of all time.
And if you can make yours like Elon Musk’s, then quadruple kudos to you.
Nothing says French cool the same way as a car that's both technologically revolutionary and stylistically arbitrary—like Sartre with a set of radial tires.
In the 21st century, driving a DS from 1955 says you look good and are in absolutely no rush—a choice equation, in our book.
The original Z-car arrived Stateside in 1970 and did nothing less than establish the legitimacy of lightweight, hyper-kinetic Japanese sports cars just as American muscle began drawing its last breaths.
(Also awesome: it was called the Datsun Fairlady in Japan.) Drive a 240Z, and more than the Fast and the Furious crowd will give you props.
All that said about the Datsun...if the GQ guy is going to muscle up, he’s making the lesser-known choice: the one that has always sat in the Mustang's shadow, but is maybe all the more special for it.
Dare we say it? If Steve McQueen were still around, he might trade in his iconic Bullitt car for the underdog.
Or, forget everything we said about understatement and roll up in this, the ultimate symbol of Depression-era income inequality when it debuted in 1928.
Nobody’s going to resent your stunting when it’s this classy.
Stealthy-fast super-sedans aren’t quite as cool as they used to be, thanks to the population of Greenwich, Connecticut, but that hardly detracts from the coolness of the O.G. Ultimate Driving Machine.
That it’s Frank Ocean’s favorite car should be enough evidence for you to follow suit.
Everybody and their Mrs. Robinson wants an Alfa Spider, just like Dustin Hoffman had.
You want this, its achingly beautiful, quintessentially Italian predecessor from the early ’60s.
If ever you wanted to unload all your Italiano superlatives— Grandissimo! Sprezzatura!—on a car, now is the time.
Italians know urban cool. They also know every other kind of cool.
But putzing around Rome in a half-liter micro-hatchback doesn’t sound cool, until you have a sprezzy Milano suit and one of these.
It’s such a cool car, in fact, that when the new one came out, we designed one ourselves.
The old Ford Bronco has a reputation for...well, we don't need to go there.
But its rustic charm hasn’t diminished with time or crime, which is why Icon’s better, faster, stronger homage has a permanent spot in our country dream garage.
For every corner office in the world, there’s a stately black luxury sedan of Germanic origins in the parking garage.
You can be that guy, or you can be this guy, who owns a suave Italian four-door with such good looks and such a cool-sounding name that you didn’t even realize it’s just Italian for “four doors.”
Everyone else will be so—how do you say?—geloso.
The Mercy, as Kanye calls it, kicked off the Italian firm’s Audi-owned era in (relatively) restrained style, transforming Lambos from bonkers, 12-year-old bedroom poster material into a tasteful supercar the rest of us might drive…if we were slow-rolling down the shoreline of Monaco, anyway.
So get one, and go and kiss an heiress for us, alright?
New cars are a tough proposition, stylistically speaking.
Who knows how they’ll age?
The curvaceous, featherweight, carbon-fiber-clad 4C, however—somehow, we’re pretty confident about this one.
In a world filled with honest-to-god gold-plated Camrys, this is just about the best ratio of luxury to not-looking-like-a-douche in existence.
The fabric top is lined with cashmere, and the back has teak decking, like on a yacht. And there’s no vulgar rev counter, just a “power meter” that goes from 0 to 100 percent. Live like an oil magnate; look like Clark Gable.
All those futuristic bubble-shaped concept cars from the world’s biggest car manufacturers got our hopes up through the 80s and 90s, and yet it’s a man with PayPal money and a belief in battery power who shows up to change the automotive landscape.
And—and!—not only does it look classically elegant, the top-end P85D model will out-accelerate a Dodge Viper.
We love a good uncomplicated roadster. They’re perfect for the picturesque countryside villas we don’t own.
And this is about as uncomplicated as it gets: not fast in any sense, but handsome and reliable, with Germanic reliability and plenty of replacement parts.
If breaking down on a dirt road isn’t a stylish look to you, this is the antidote.
Not exactly a curveball here, since the E-Type is the most beautiful car ever made according to Enzo Ferrari and pretty much the rest of humanity.
You just don’t quibble with perfection.
The thinking man's vintage Porsche is the 928, made from '78 to '95. Porsche's last great GT car (sorry, Panamera) is easier to drive than 911s of that era, and every bit as pretty.
Between the circular pop-up headlamps and that perfectly proportioned rear three-quarter view, we always get caught staring. That said, if your Porsche lust begins and ends with the numbers 9-1-1...
None of the mid-tier bankers and mid-life-crisis sufferers have the style or savvy to get this, a completely re-engineered and modernized 964.
It’s a vintage car experience with no breakdowns, more speed, and a bespoke, handcrafted polish. If you’ve ever wanted to stunt over everyone in the golf club set, this is how.
To just about everyone it’s a very gorgeous vintage car, but to any car nerd it's the first Japanese supercar and an automotive holy grail.
It debuted in 1967, and one just sold for nearly $1.2 million—better snag one while the price is still reasonable.
Mercedes invented the concept of the four-door “coupe”—maybe the defining automotive design movement of the modern era—with its swooping CLS, but to our eyes the subtle sexiness of the A7 elevated it from oxymoron to aha moment.
There's really no better way to transport yourself, your wife, your two kids, and the dignity you retained after choosing the Audi over a minivan.
Bond drove one, of course. And DiCaprio's Frank Abagnale, Jr. drove one in Catch Me If You Can, just because Bond drove one. But that's not a reason to love this surly British stunner.
The DB5 is restrained brawn and I-got-this attitude wearing an impeccable Italian-tailored suit.
This is the car we all want to be when we wake up in the morning.
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