For July's issue, we assembled the most important cars ever built, working forward from 1955, when we were founded as Sports Car Illustrated, and the modern auto industry came of age. These are Car and Driver's GOATS – the Greatest of All Time. Today: Exotica.
1987 Ferrari F40 and 1987 Porsche 959
Nothing fuels fantasy quite like competition, the compulsory "would you rather" forcing deeper consideration than a solitary subject. In the late '80s, when the 911 Turbo was making 282 horsepower and the Testarossa was at 380, Porsche and Ferrari unleashed a pair of race-bred outlaws with 444 and 478 horsepower, respectively. But power was just the beginning, with features like an adjustable-height suspension, sequential turbocharging, and carbon-fiber and Kevlar body panels bringing a new generation of racing technology to the streets. Both were featured in our November 1987 issue. The F40 was merely a static preview, but after testing the 959, we concluded, "If you want to call the Porsche 959 the best car in the world, you will get no argument from us." —Jared Gall
McLaren
1992 McLaren F1
The F1 was tragically underappreciated by those who could afford it in its time. McLaren planned to build 300 but made only 106. It used the tech of the day but nothing that would muddy the driver's connection to the car, such as power steering. The F1's 221-mph top-speed record stood for a decade; its overall greatness may never be surpassed. —JG
Porsche
2004 Porsche Carrera GT
At the dawn of the computerized-supercar era, the Carrera GT kept the driver in the game with its manual trans, unfiltered steering, and absence of stability control. It was no Luddite, though. The GT's pushrod suspension, carbon-ceramic brake rotors, and free-spinning 5.7-liter V-10 engine brought race-car tech to the streets. —Eric Tingwall
The Holy Trinity: 2014 Ferrari LaFerrari, 2014 McLaren P1, and 2015 Porsche 918 Spyder
By 2014, a decade had passed since the last Ferrari/Porsche supercar clash, and the rematch deepened with the addition of McLaren to the playbill. What a singular moment in history, when three of the world's great supercar makers simultaneously released limited-production halo cars, all with output in the neighborhood of 900 horsepower and price tags around a million bucks.
And what a forecast that all three incorporated hybrid systems. Aside from that, though, there's enough promise here that the future will continue to cater to different tastes, with one twin-turbo V-8, one 9000-rpm V-12, and one naturally aspirated V-8 with an electric motor supplying all-wheel drive. They are all delights. Every car geek on earth dreamed of getting all three in the same place at the same time. —JG
McLaren
2019 McLaren Senna
The Senna ditches the McLaren P1's hybrid system and about 400 pounds of weight along with all concern for aesthetics in its pursuit to be quicker around a racetrack than any other street-legal car. And from our testing, it is—by a considerable margin. That might not be your definition of greatness, but it is a concrete one. —JG
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