Here is a list of what we consider to be some of the greatest icons of our times. What we'd like you to do is to vote for what you consider to be your favourite icon. Or if you are feeling creative submit your own.
The 48-hairpin northern route is a ‘must drive’ road; the prettier southern pass is the really breathtaking bonus for making the trip.
Star of countless films and car commercials, US State Route 1 hugs over 500 miles of California coastline, from Orange County to San Francisco.
He only won six Grands Prix but that’s not the point. Villeneuve is the original racer’s racer, ask any real F1 fan.
Another Grand Prix great who lived fast and died young, but not before he’d completely re-written the record books.
How many F1 World Champions were also hard-partying budgie breeders with a fondness for dining at expensive London restaurants with their pet Alsatian? Only one…
The world’s first waterproof, automatic chronograph, but so what? Steve McQueen wore one in his movie, Le Mans, and that’s what counts.
Phil Hill won the F1 world title in 1961 using a new MOMO wheel on his Ferrari. The rest of the world soon followed suit.
Every year ‘experts’ remind us that Monaco’s streets are too narrow, the cars too fast but every year is any Grand Prix more popular with fans?
Not just a motor race, but a test of human resolve, bravery and how to stay awake all day and all night. And that’s just the spectators.
Since 1911 when Ray Haroun won the first race in his Marmon Wasp, the Indianapolis 500 has arguably been the world’s biggest single racing event.
1978 was ‘year zero’ in F1 as the awesome Lotus 79 launched the ‘ground effects’ era. The sport would never be the same.
In 1988 the pretty, but devastatingly effective, McLaren MP4/4 won 15 out of 16 Grands Prix in the hands of Senna and Prost.
In 1991, the rotary-engined 787B became the first – and is still the only – Japanese manufacturer to win Le Mans.
Motorsport is all about winning but looking good doing it makes it even better. In the early Nineties the works Martini Integrales had it all.
Lady P was a rubbish special agent but her trick pink Rolls Royce made perfect sense, didn’t it? Ridiculously camp, we just didn’t know it.
“Robin - to the Batmobile.” It didn’t stop us loving it, but why did the dynamic duo’s crazy car always seem to move so slowly?
Two backward brothers, one stupid sheriff and Daisy Duke’s cut-offs were great entertainment but the real star was always the car.
Cartoon capers with the routine good-beats-evil ending but be honest – you enjoyed this quite a lot more than Vision On, didn’t you?
These days, it’s second nature to ‘clunk-click every trip’ (and illegal not to) but the comfort and safety of inertia reel seatbelts cannot be overstated.
Like many automotive innovations, anti-lock braking systems were first introduced on aircraft, as long ago as 1929 in primitive form.
Invented by Yorkshireman, Percy Shaw, in 1933 these little rubber blocks with glass balls in them have since been used around the world.
Other toy cars were more fun but if you’ve still got a mint and boxed example, you’ll be glad you never played with it!
Just imagine being 12 again, with your own Aston Martin with rocket launchers, ejector seats and spikes on the wheels!
Remember how Villeneuve and Arnoux thrilled us by banging wheels, overtaking, re-overtaking, sliding off the road and still finishing 2nd and 3rd?
Against the might of both the Jaguar and Mercedes teams, Mazda lasted longest in one of the best Le Mans stories ever.