Many of the people featured in this story, including Rowan Atkinson, drive or own some of the world's best cars - but where did they all start?
We select the machines we reckon are the most important and finest examples from the Land of the Rising Sun
A feast for your eyes
Join us to celebrate all the cars that dared to be different - and didn't always succeed
Engines can be good, bad, or somewhere in between. But others are hard to put in a set box, for a variety of reasons…
We look at the cars whose nature and abilities were dramatically altered by the arrival of a new powerplant
Some go nowhere, but other concept cars really point to the future. We take stock of the most interesting and influential ones ever made
Which of these cars do you remember?
Second-hand needn’t mean second-best, so here’s the cream of the classified crop
We suggest you get well out of the way of these cars
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