These are the best cars we saw in 2024

These are the top seven best cars we’ve seen in 2024.

Or perhaps we should use the word vehicles, because one of them is perhaps not really a car.

2024 was a transitional year for the auto industry, and this is unlikely to change in 2025.

But it’s certainly great to see some automakers out there still know how to make the most of it.

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Bugatti Tourbillon deserves to be in this year’s top seven

The new Bugatti Tourbillon deserves a spot in the top seven, although some might say this is not actually a 2024 car because production will only commence in 2026.

That’s true, but it was unveiled this year, and we reckon it would be a shame to leave it out of the list.

Bugatti took its sweet time to develop the long-awaited successor to the Chiron, but for good reason.

First, the Chiron had a very long shelf life, with limited-edition models on top of special-edition models that always sold like hot cakes and kept the car alive for almost a decade.

Second, Bugatti has totally changed its structure since the years of the Chiron, merging with Croatian hypercar manufacturer Rimac.

When Rimac acquired Bugatti, everyone assumed (and feared) the new Bugatti would be electric, but that wasn’t the case.

The Tourbillon uses a V16 that’s larger and more powerful than the Chiron’s W16.

All good.

Lamborghini Temerario is also one the best cars we’ve driven

Just like the Tourbillon, the new Lamborghini Temerario will only be available from next year, but it still needs to be on this list.

It replaces the Huracán, which is one of the best-selling Lambos in history, so no pressure there.

The engine is smaller, it’s a V8, but more powerful, with over 900 horsepower.

Unlike (nearly) every other car here, the Temerario isn’t limited in terms of productions, but we can reasonably expect a long list of special-edition variants in the coming years.

It’s definitely one of the best cars of the year, certainly in the top seven, and one of the best we’ve driven.

Ferrari F80 is one of the best cars in history

Ferrari has unveiled more than one new vehicle this year but the F80 is arguably the most important one, and the name tells us why.

The F80 replaces the LaFerrari but, more to the point, it is also a successor to both the F40 and F50.

This 1,184-horsepower V6 hybrid racer is a flagship supercar designed to start a three-year celebration that will lead to Ferrari’s 80th anniversary.

The way Ferrari did it is genius.

The car was unveiled in 2024, with production set to begin in 2025 but spanning 2026 and 2027 as well.

That way, the last (of 799) F80 will leave the factory in 2027, just in time to celebrate the brand’s 80th anniversary.

McLaren W1

The McLaren W1 is another car that absolutely had to be included here.

The W1 picks up from where the F1 and P1 left off.

It uses a heavily revised version of the twin-turbo 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8 that powers most modern McLaren, but it produces over 1,200 horsepower in this case.

Production is limited to 399 units, with a very high price tag that’s only likely to get higher on the secondary market.

Why the Xiaomi is one of the best cars of 2024

The Xiaomi SU7 is one of two non-supercars here, but it still deserves a mention because of the way it took the industry by storm.

No one expected Xiaomi – a smartphone maker – to build a car.

But they did, and it’s here, and it’s sold out for the next 1,000 years or something.

Xiaomi set up a production line that Henry Ford would be proud of, with cars rolling off the assembly line faster than we can spell the car’s name, and yet the company still can’t keep up with demand.

Everyone loves it, and – speaking of Ford – the list of people besotted with it includes Jim Farley, the US-based manufacturer’s current CEO.

Farley got ahold of one, because CEOs routinely test cars from competition, and he loved it.

Aston Martin Valhalla

It was a long gestation, but the Aston Martin Valhalla is finally here.

First unveiled as a prototype in 2019, the Valhalla is now available as a production model.

It was designed by Adrian Newey, back when he was still at Red Bull, and it uses a Mercedes V8 along with three electric engines.

Production is limited to 999 units.

Mercedes PureSpeed

The Mercedes PureSpeed will be remembered, among other things, as the last F1-inspired car tested by Lewis Hamilton before his move to Scuderia Ferrari.

It was unveiled as a prototype in May, and a production model followed just a few months later, in late 2024.

It is a speedster with no windshield or roof, but it has a HALO system inspired by F1.

Only 250 units will ever be made.

Honorable mention: Tesla Cybercab

If we dissected what Elon Musk said over the years, looking at all the (missed) deadlines for other vehicles, and then threw the Cybercab into that context, we could draw a conclusion.

The conclusion is that this product may matter more to Tesla than anything else.

It took forever to get the Cybertruck, the Tesla Roadster still isn’t there, and yet the Cybercab materialized pretty quickly.

We went from the first mention to the first working prototype in record time.

This tells us that perhaps Tesla is heavily banking on it for its future.

After all, Musk has repeated on so many occasions that Tesla considers itself a robotics and autonomy company, not an automaker.

Tesla said Cybercab will be available in 2026, and the first location will almost certainly be Austin, Texas.

Let’s see.