"Did you play Top Trumps as a kid? And yes, I mean the car kind: was there any other? Of course you did. And the same instinct that lit your little heart when you saw you’d been dealt, say, "
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Our Favourite Extreme Machines
Sinclair C5
![c5-430](https://www.adrianflux.co.uk/influx/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/c5-430.jpg)
The C5 was stupid-looking, probably dangerous, but strangely prescient and now kind of retro and cool. Clive Sinclair’s doomed project was the product of the extreme entrepreneurialism of the early eighties.
The Buckeye Bullet
![buckeye-bullet-01](https://www.adrianflux.co.uk/influx/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/buckeye-bullet-01.jpg)
McLaren F1
The long-time holder of the fastest-car title, engine bay lined with gold makes it the most bling too
Maybach 62
![Maybach_1](https://www.adrianflux.co.uk/influx/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Maybach_1.jpg)
The biggest car currently on sale, but a sales disaster for parent Mercedes-Benz: crass, ugly and overly bling. Also the heaviest.
Smart ForTwo:
![Smart_fortwoC-04-1024](https://www.adrianflux.co.uk/influx/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Smart_fortwoC-04-1024.jpg)
Currently the shortest car on sale but Gordon Murray’s new T25 city car will be 30cm shorter and have an extra perch
Caparo T1:
![caparo_t1_09_5](https://www.adrianflux.co.uk/influx/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/caparo_t1_09_5.jpg)
You’d struggle to call it a car, but it does wear number plates and has a power-to-weight ratio that blitzes anything else you can buy with 575bhp in a body weighing less than half a tonne
Bugatti Veyron Super Sports
![Veyron_SS_Engine](https://www.adrianflux.co.uk/influx/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Veyron_SS_Engine.jpg)
Not again! But we didn’t mention that alongside all its other records, it’s also the most expensive and least-efficient car you can currently buy?
Compiled by Michael Fordham & Ben Oliver
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