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There have been some mind boggling car designs over the years, some we are all familiar with, and some we aren't. The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance 2011 is a place where you can have your mind very easily boggled.

Held on August 17th this year, 2011 saw this 61st concourse being a place to celebrate 125 years of motoring, and a display of 22 Ferrari 250 GTOs celebrated the automobile's 50th anniversary as did Jaguar's E-Type.

This year's event was co-sponsored by Mecedes Benz who, in keeping with the 125 years of motoring theme, had an exceptionally old 1886 Benz Patent Motor Wagen Replica on display.

I am struggling to actually think of a better setting for a car show,More...

Quite simply, for this week at least, I've found my new favourite car. The beautiful motor vehicle that you see here is from a rather nice site called theaircooledguys.com, and this is a 1968 Porsche 911 Targa with Sportomatic transmission. It was in 1967 that Porsche first introduced the Targa into the 911 range. Combining beauty with protection, the Targa had a roll bar with a stainless steel exterior coating. The car combined the best of a hard top and a soft top, but only seemingly came about because Porsche suspected that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) might be on the verge of banning fully open convertibles in the United States. Porsche certainly didn't want to fall foul of the lucrative US market.More...

Bentley Arnage

BMW ItalDesign Nazca V12

Ferrari 348

Ferrari F355

Ferrari 512

Ferrari 550 Maranello

Ferrari 575M Superamerica

Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano

Ferrari Enzo

Ferrari F40

Ferrari F50

Ferrari 430 Spider

Ferrari Testarossa

Jaguar XJ220

Lambourghini Cizeta V16T

Lamborghini Countach

Lamborghini Diablo

Maserati 4200

Mercedes Benz CLK DTM AMG

Mercedes Benz CLK DTM AMG

Rolls Royce Phantom

While reading through some motoring news I have recently stumbled across this almost unbelievable collection of sports cars and prestige vehicles for sale on JamesList.com which is an auction site selling luxury goods.  Once the richest man in the world, the Sultan of Brunei is now selling off a few of the rarest and most exotic vehicles you could ever hope to see, although it is a mere snip of his entire automotive collection which is supposed contain hundreds of vehicle's stored in buildings behind bomb proof gates.  I mean, how many people have in their garage these particular 21 unwanted vehicles:  Bentley Arnage, Ferrari F355, Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano, Ferrari 575M Superamerica, Ferrari 430 Spider, Ferrari 550 Maranello, Ferrari 512, Ferrari 348, Ferrari Testarossa, Maserati 4200, Ferrari F50, Ferrari F40, BMW ItalDesign Nazca V12, Lambourghini Cizeta V16T, Jaguar XJ220, Lamborghini Diablo, Lamborghini Countach, Mercedes Benz CLK DTM AMG (there's 2 of these if you're counting), Rolls Royce Phantom and a Ferrari Enzo, which like many of the cars is unregistered and only has only delivery mileage on it.  For all intents and purposes it is a brand new car despite dating back to 2004. More...