There’s an excellent case to be made for the Jaguar E-Type being the most beautiful car ever built. The Lamborghini Miura gets close, as does the Ferrari 250 GTO, but the E-Type just has a certain something. Not even Jaguar’s spiritual successor, the F-Type, could match its beauty.

It was designed long before wind tunnels and aerodynamics became a thing. Therefore, it’s style just for the sake of style. You can sketch the profile using just three swipes of a pencil, which is always a sign of great design. Then there’s the long hood and the stubby rear end. It looks dainty, but the E-Type sounds monstrous thanks to its unfiltered inline-six engines.