A walk down memory lane with one of Volkswagen's most interesting products, the Corrado coupe.

The Lamborghini LM002 is a creature of automotive folklore, the four-wheeled equivalent of Bigfoot. Rare indeed, but if you know where to look, it will actually pose for the camera all day long, as did this bright red example for us.

Before the BMW M3 made it to our shores, Mercedes-Benz showed us how a four-valve head could totally transform a humble four-cylinder German compact into a proper sport sedan. Behold the 190E 2.3-16.

When Volvo dropped the 850 T-5R on us back in 1995, its 150-mph top speed was thoroughly impressive for a family sedan. We drove a low-mile example to see how well its mojo has aged.

When Audi bought Lamborghini in 1998, it set to work correcting a couple decades worth of wrongs. The one car that combined the best of the old Lambos with a bit of solid German engineering was the Diablo VT 6.0 SE. It also happens to be one of the rarest.

The 280SE is an unexpectedly modern-feeling cabriolet, especially considering that its W111/112 chassis code dates back to August of 1959, when the first “fintail” sedan appeared. But the truth is, the W111 was a truly modern car.

When Saab bolted a turbocharger to its eccentric little 99 sedan way back in 1977, vehicles that offered practicality, safety, comfort, economy and performance all in one package were especially rare. Saab's cars had most of those qualities, but the 99 Turbo changed everything for the little company.

Are we car geeks always wrong, or do we love weird things simply because they're weird? Car lovers buy wagons over crossovers; we beg for diesels when manufacturers insist no one wants them. And we seem to be the only ones who love shooting brakes, that odd genre created for the landed gentry of England.