In 1984, there was no ABS, traction control, or four-wheel drive. In 2014, this purity has a grail-like quality to it, but, back when the Porsche 959 arrived in 1986, it pulverised the 288 with its techno onslaught. The F40 arrived three years later, the last Ferrari to be personally overseen by Il Commendatore. It too uses contemporary F1 tech, with a tubular steel spaceframe chassis with Kevlar panels bonded on, while the doors, bonnet and bootlid are all carbon fibre. The engine is a 2,936cc V8, twin-turbocharged to 471bhp, rocketing the F40 to 62mph in 4.1 seconds and more importantly to a claimed 201mph top speed. In 1987, that really was something, the first production car to breach that magic marker. Now it was the pulveriser.