1. VW Beetle
   1960s Mustang
2. Cadillac Eldorado
   Buick LeSabre

The VW Beetle was an ideal car for the young, broke and freewheeling of that day. It got you from point A to Point B without using up a lot of gas or looking old and stodgy, as an old sedan might.

1. Bugatti Veyron
   Porsche 911
2. Porsche Cayman
   Volkswagen Passat

The Veyron made a huge splash in the auto world of the mid-2000s. Top Gear presenter James May reached a speed of 417 miles per hour in a test-track drive.

1. Corrado
   Insight
2. Beetle
   Golf

The Volkswagen Corrado is a beautiful "hot hatch" that, for some reason, never caught on. You'll see one every once in a while on the road, driven by an owner who probably loves it to death.

1. Honda Del Sol
   Honda Insight
2. Ford Escape
   Porsche Cayman

The Insight beat the Toyota Prius to the US market. Why, then, did the Prius do so much better? Because it has four doors, and the Insight only had two.

1. BMW 320xi
   Porsche Cayman
2. Mercedes SLS-AMG
   Volkswagen Touareg

When Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone have owned the same vehicle, that's real street cred!

1. Chevy Corvette
   Dodge Viper
2. Ford Probe
   Lamborghini Gallardo Balboni

The series "Viper" ran for one season on NBC before going to syndication for another three years. The car the crime-fighters drove was a special "Viper Defender," of which less than 20 were made.

1. Porsche Boxster
   Mustang convertible
2. Toyota Prius
   VW Beetle

Okay, maybe you're not a fan of Miss Spears. But the Boxster is famous if for no other reason than one made its way into Justin Timberlake's revenge video, "Cry Me a River," in which a pretty ash blonde girl whose face we never see bounces out of her mansion and into one, leaving Justin to come in and get down in bed with another girl. Cheeky!

1. Buick LeSabre
   Toyota Previa
2. Volvo wagon
   VW van

The Volvo wagon -- particularly the 240 series -- was an inexpensive, easy-to-maintain ride for the young and broke throughout the '80s and '90s. Nowadays, a Volvo wagon or sedan will run you more than US $40,000 new.

1. Silverado
   Ram
2. Tacoma
   Touareg

The early-generation Tacomas were a compact truck. In later years, they swelled to "mid-sized," keeping up with a "bigger is better" ethic in the truck world.

1. Audi A4
   Mercedes SLK
2. Porsche Cayman
   Subaru Outback

The four linked rings, a bit like the logo of the Olympic Games, is the symbol of Audi. Like Saab, Audis are a high-quality car for people who a like subtler, less showy design.

1. Ford Escape
   Nissan Pathfinder
2. Range Rover
   Chevy Suburban

Range Rover is a luxury SUV of British make. In the 2000s, the firm asked Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham to consult on a special edition, the Range Rover Evoque.

1. Cadillac Eldorado
   Dodge Dart
2. Subaru Outback
   Trans-Am

Outbacks are popular because they're durable enough to take hiking, mountain biking, stand-up paddleboarding, etc. -- yet without the environmental guilt that goes with having a full-sized SUV.

1. BMW 330i
   Honda Odyssey
2. Audi A4 Quattro
   Tesla Roadster

The Tesla Roadster was introduced to the world by South African entrepreneur Elon Musk. It was the first mass-produced electric car.

1. Accord
   Civic CRX
2. Insight
   Luna

The CRX was a sharply wedge-shaped hatchback with only two seats. Well-maintained, this car could achieve 48 miles per gallon, more than 15 years before the hybrid Insight and Prius arrived on the scene!

1. Hummer
   Land Cruiser
2. Range Rover
   Touareg

The Land Cruiser started out as a Jeep-like vehicle and gradually grew more comfortably appointed. The Land Cruiser is still made today, in its J200 model.

1. Corvette
   Chevette
2. Silverado
   Tahoe

In truth, the Corvette was introduced before the Mustang. This hasn't, though, lessened the perception that the two cars are in more or less direct competition with each other.

1. Lotus Elise
   Insight
2. Lexus LS
   Porsche Cayman

Lexus is Toyota's luxury brand. Telephone staff at Toyota service centers are trained to always introduce themselves as "calling from the Lexus service center," not Toyota.

1. Dodge Challenger
   Lexus RX300
2. BMW 330i
   Volkswagen Golf

Lexus was one of many automakers to start bringing luxury to the SUV in the 1990s. They were responding to the vehicle's evolution into a status symbol for urban and suburban owners.

1. Chevrolet
   Honda
2. Subaru
   Toyota

The Subaru Impreza is part of a modern trend of giving cars meaningless names loosely based on real words -- in this case, "impress." Jerry Seinfeld lampooned the trend in his stand-up routine.

1. Ford F-150
   Jeep
2. Mercedes SLS-AMG
   Lotus Elise

Of course, this is the Jeep. The BBC show, "Life on Mars," begins with the hero crashing his Jeep Wagoneer in 2007 and waking up in 1973. When he tries to explain the situation to a police officer, the bobby says incredulously, "You were driving a military vehicle?"

1. Ford F-150
   Ford F-250
2. Ford F-350
   all of these

The Ford F line of trucks has been hugely popular with people in these trades. And for some reason, the color of choice is almost always white. (If you're one such owner, maybe you can explain this preference in the comments.)

1. Accord
   Fit
2. Camry
   Whim

Honda's ads for the subcompact Fit were a far cry from when Japanese importers tried to smooth over their cars's Asian origins. "The Fit is go" was part of an advertising campaign designed to look like a gaudily-colorful Japanese video game.

1. Aston Martin Vanquish
   Jaguar XJ6
2. Mini Cooper
   Ford Mustang

In this caper film, Michael Caine's Charlie Croker chooses Minis for their maneuverability. The cars get away with a shared cargo of gold bricks after a daring heist.

1. Dodge Dart
   Chrysler Imperial
2. Buick LeSabre
   the DeLorean

The compact version of the Dart, made from 1967 to 1976, got a reputation as a kind of poor man's car as the years went by. But in 2013, Dodge revived the name for a stylish little sedan based on a Fiat design.

1. Honda Del Sol
   Ford Fairlane
2. Nissan Altima
   smart Fortwo

The smart brand (all-lowercase is the standard spelling) is part of a 21st-century craze for very small European cars. Just enough room for you, your honey, and your also-fashionable teacup Yorkie!

1. Ferrari Mondial
   Fiat 500
2. Bugatti Veyron
   Lamborghini Gallardo

The Fiat 500 returned to North American markets in 2011. Actress Jennifer Lopez took one for a spin in the first U.S. commercial.

1. BMW 320xi
   Ferrari Testarossa
2. Dacia Sandero
   Aston Martin Vanquish

This car proved popular with sports-world figures, especially in the 1980s and '90s. Michael Jordan, O.J. Simpson and Mike Tyson all owned one.

1. Altima
   Fiero
2. MR2
   Probe

Fiero is in that class of cars that are more often called "sporty" cars than "sports cars." But, hey, love is in the eye of the beholder!

1. Catalina
   Charger
2. Probe
   Chevelle

Yup, the humble Probe might have been a Mustang. Actually, the fourth-generation Mustang that designers finally came up with didn't look at all that different, tbh.

1. an Acura
   a Corvette
2. a Mustang
   a Mercury Mountaineer

The 1980s Mustang had a solid build, less aerodynamic than the generation to follow, but just as powerful. Clarice Starling's Roush Mustang in "Hannibal" is a Fox body.

1. Rabbit
   Golf
2. Passat
   Touareg

The Tuareg people for whom this SUV is named are nomadic North Africans. We're guessing they don't travel in as much luxury as Touareg owners.

1. 320xi
   XJ6
2. Pathfinder
   X5

BMW is best known for its sedans, but like nearly everyone else, had to enter the SUV market. All those yuppies in law school in the 1980s starting having kids and needed bigger vehicles, we suppose!

1. a Dodge Challenger
   a Chrysler LeBaron
2. a Ford Mustang II
   a Plymouth Duster

According to show trivia, there were more than 200 "General Lees" used in the production of the show. Maybe this makes sense given how hard filming would have been on the car (the boys made a jump in it in nearly every episode, it seemed).

1. an Alfa Romeo Spyder
   a '60s Mustang
2. a Plymouth Fury
   a Volkswagen Squareback

Stephen King's books often celebrate pieces of classic Americana, like 1950s cars -- but with a dark spin on them. This was the case with "Christine," the murderous Plymouth Fury.

1. a Chevette
   a Dodge Monaco
2. a Ford Thunderbird
   a Volvo 240

The Dodge Monaco is a car that few people would remember if it weren't for its turn as the "Bluesmobile." Some of them were police cars, as was the one in the film.