Jeff Dunham's The Cars That Drove Us

The 1980s supercar explosion sent next-level performers like the Lamborghini Countach, Porsche 959 and Lotus Esprit Turbo peeling out of Europe. Detroit designer Jerry Wiegert enters America into the race with his jet fighter on wheels -- the Vector W8.

While the DeLorean is best known as the time machine from Back to the Future, the true story behind the DMC-12 has more plot twists than any Hollywood movie; telling the tale of its inventor, John DeLorean, and his quest to create a new U.S. car company.

The Pontiac Trans Am isn't just part of the muscle car movement, it is a statement and a complete package on the track or the streets; a star of film, Smokey and the Bandit, and television, Knight Rider, the Trans Am pushes muscle cars to the limit.

Before becoming America's Sports Car, the Chevrolet Corvette was the bane of General Motors' existence; when the automaker attempted to discontinue the line in 1983, a small team of self-funded true believers went rogue, sparking a civil war within GM.

Hollywood gives audiences plenty of hero cars they can drive home, Knight Rider, the DeLorean, even Herbie, but the Batmobile is always out of reach; of all its incarnations, no other machine redefined the movie car more than the 1989 Batmobile.

As the American military outgrows the Jeep, it needs something strong, tough, more versatile, and the Humvee is the answer; from Desert Storm to Rodeo Drive, it became America's vehicle of choice, courtesy of its big fan, Arnold Schwarzenegger.