Over the past several decades cars have gotten safer, more comfortable, more powerful and more efficient – but along the way there have also been a few deviants that defied all rules and pushed imagination and engineering to their limits. After all, what fun would these cars be if they weren’t a bit out of their minds?
1. Bentley Meteor
There are V12’s and V16’s, even ludicrous V8’s, but nothing beats a car powered by a monstrous Rolls-Royce Merlin V12 from a Spitfire fighter-plane. That’s right; 27-litres of raw power (660 horsepower and 1,600 lb.-ft. of torque to be exact) placed on a 1930 Rolls-Royce Phantom II chassis, and modeled to look like a 1930’s Bentley 4.5-Litre “Supercharged”, which was a legendary race car in its time. At 19-feet in length and with a sound that is out of this world, people will be sure to take notice. Shockingly enough, you can buy a Meteor – they are built by hand in Devon, U.K. However, all that novelty comes at a price of £500,000. Arguably, this Bentley is a motorized depiction of “pomp and circumstance.”
