Okay, they're great cars now, but that is only through sheer Teutonic pigheadedness regarding the utter refusal to put the engine somewhere sensible. Some may say that it is through the refining of the rear-engine concept, advances in suspension technology and the addition of sophisticated electronic stability systems that has tamed the 911's tendency to launch itself backwards into the scenery, but it is probably simply the fact that they persisted with it for so long that the laws of physics simply gave up and buggered off to bother someone else.
7. Peugeot 205 GTi
Yes, it was a revolutionary car at the time. But that's the key phrase - "at the time". Now it's a small, cramped, noisy, uncomfortable, unreliable ball of death waiting to happen. Safety systems consist of, well... nothing really, and its remarkable ability to swap ends under virtually no provocation in the wet is sphincter-clenching fun for all the family. That said, it is still huge fun to drive, that is until it breaks down (which it will) or you hit anything bigger than it.
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