Journey back to the beginnings of the automotive industry when the iconic sports car first hit our roads making headlines around the world as one of the most popular set of wheels in history.

Meet Ferdinand Porsche and his radical rear-engine roadster that introduced the engineering precision of the German sports car, and delve into the swagger, power and style of Enzo Ferrari's twelve-cylinder racing dynamos that illustrated what Italian passion can produce. Take a look under the hood of one of the world's first racing legends – the unbeatable Italian speedster known as the Alfa Romeo dazzled everyone from Ferrari to Benito Mussolini. The sports car looked like a doomed anachronism when gas prices soared and emission controls choked horsepower in the 1970s, but this all changed when BMW, Porsche, Mercedes, Jaguar raced into production with new roadsters designed to catch the fancy of the second generation of enthusiasts. Sit back and relax while we take some of these legendary machines out for a drive.