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There are classics in car design, such as Ford's Mustang and Porsche's 911, whose shapes have persisted with subtle variations for forty years. Jaguar's XJ sedan is almost equally long-lived, but sales have dropped as it passed through many iterations that were all much too closely based--even the last all-aluminum model--on Sir William Lyon's original design. Now, finally, the XJ has a completely new shape, impressively handsome and vastly better, in terms of space and comfort, than any of its forebears.

Since its 2004 introduction, the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren has attempted to trade off the glory of the legendary W196S 300SLR racing cars of the 1950s. For the SLR's final run of seventy-five cars, Mercedes has crafted a whole new body for its supercar, creating the most evocative variant yet. Adding the name of another legend associated with Mercedes racing history, the final edition is called the SLR Stirling Moss.