I’m surprised nobody has mentioned these three classic F1 cars yet:
1992 Williams FW14B - Ended the Grove squad’s title drought in emphatic fashion, with 10 wins out of 16 (9 for Nigel Mansell, then an all-time single-season record, plus one for Riccardo Patrese) in 1992 thanks to its highly advanced combination of an immensely powerful Renault V10, active suspension, anti-lock brakes and traction control. Also marked the start of Adrian Newey’s streak of title winners.
1991 McLaren MP4/6 - the last F1 car ever to win either championship with a V12 engine or a manual transmission; it had both. It brought the late, great Ayrton Senna his third - and last - world title, in a season when there were three previous world champions (Senna, Prost, Piquet) and also three future world champions as well (Mansell, Schumacher and Hakkinen). It would also turn out to be the last championship-winning McLaren for seven years.
1994 Benetton B194 - For all the controversy surrounding it, its significance as the car that gave Michael Schumacher his first of seven Drivers’ Championships will never be overlooked. Moreover, it was the last title-winning car ever to be powered by a Ford/Cosworth engine, and the last championship winner powered by a V8 engine from any supplier until the configuration was mandated in 2006.
All three are so much better to look at and listen to than any of today’s turbo hybrid monstrosities, and mostly simpler to boot, especially the upcoming 2018 models with their awkward, cumbersome Halos, and should make a very convincing case for banning turbos and hybrid tech permanently when the next regulation change comes in 2020. As a matter of fact, they might not even need the Halo by then, which should be reason enough to persuade them to bin it for good as well.