Monterey Car Week

Gabriel Voisin built aeroplanes before automobiles — his cars kept the aluminium, the sleeve-valve engines and the conviction that a machine should be a work of art.

The engineering house of Detroit's golden age — hemi power, letter-series 300s, and Ghia-bodied ideas Europe took seriously.

Myron Stevens's chassis and Harry Miller's engines — the pairing that ruled the Indianapolis bricks between the wars.

A manufacturer in its own right, not a tuner — Porsche’s shape carrying RUF’s engineering.

Three cars carry the roundel into blue-chip territory — the 507, the CSL, the M1.

The 3D-printed hypercar start-up — the supercar redrawn by algorithm and additive metal.

The inventor of the automobile — and owner of the most expensive car ever sold.

Marcello Gandini's uncompromised Diablo — built by Claudio Zampolli with sixteen cylinders set across the tail.

Eric Broadley's works supplied the world's grids for half a century — and the T70 remains the most beautiful thing it built.

Le Mans glory in the fifties — and the fastest car in the world in 1992.

The company that went to Le Mans to beat Ferrari — and did, four times straight.

Preston Tucker built fifty-one cars and a legend — the 48's cyclops eye still stares down Detroit's what-ifs.

Rolla Vollstedt's Portland-built single-seaters carried the rear-engined revolution to Indianapolis.

Rally’s greatest homologation specials — the Stratos wedge and the last RWD champion.

The quiet constructor of Varano — the chassis builder behind half of modern motorsport, from Indianapolis to its own Stradale.

The Bearcat made Stutz a byword for American speed — Indianapolis-bred and Jazz-Age famous.

Renzo Rivolta's Italian-American idea — Bertone bodies over Corvette power, and the Grifo to prove the mix could be noble.

Steve Saleen turned Mustangs into supercars and then built his own — the S7, America's mid-engined answer to Europe.

Japan’s mass-market major — and the maker of the Skyline GT-R the road learned to fear.

Front-wheel drive, hidden headlamps and coffin-nose Art Deco — the boldest engineering house of pre-war America.

Faenza's grand prix house — the junior team whose car won at Monza in Vettel's hands.