Desirable Cars

The history, design and legacy behind the cars everyone secretly wants — supercars and heritage classics alike.

Modern & Classic Icons, Side by Side

Some manufacturers span eras as comfortably as they span price brackets — a badge that means something completely different depending on whether it's stitched into a 1960s cabin or a current one. Each guide on this site pairs a marque's classic icons with its modern equivalents, tracing what's actually changed and what's stayed stubbornly the same.

Coverage spans everything from million-dollar auction icons to more attainable classics, and from hypercars to the current range-toppers of more everyday brands. Where a car's story involves a genuinely remarkable number — an auction record, a continuation run, a production count — we lead with it, because that's usually the fastest way into why a car matters.

Browse Desirable Cars by Make

Modern and classic icons from the same manufacturer, side by side.

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