Nice cars Aussie, very nice. I agree, Lotus is THE car. Only thing as good is a Porsche and nothing can take anything away from the classic 911. One possible is a car a friend of mine in college had, a Fiat-Abarth 2000. It was the Fiat 850 fast back, the first and one of the nicest looking fastbacks with an Abarth 2000 cc V8, 4 valves per cylinder, dohc, blown and fuel injected, tuned exhaust by Abarth, of course all driving a 6 speed ZF box. Man, was that a fun car. Up to 60 mph, it would blow away anything short of a fuel dragster, up to 90 it was still pretty hot. The gearing was for short rally courses, like in Italy, with straight runs less than 500 meters and lots of hair pins, so it wasn't much on the high end, speedwise, maybe 120 tops.
But Lotus is still THE car. Ah, memories of a Super 7 in the Santa Cruz mountains or running down Big Sur.