5 Great Exotic Cars

Any list of 5 Best Exotic Cars is bound to stir up a lot of passionate debate. How do you measure exotic? How do you account for personal taste? And since there are so many great exotics on the market, you can always make perfectly valid arguments for at least another 5.

For example, our number six might be the $257,000 V12 Ferrari 612 Scaglietti two-plus-two Berlinetta we drove around Oregon's Mount Hood. Or the 427-cubic-inch yellow Corvette Z06 we later drove up to Pacific Raceways.

We had some excellent exotic car adventures in 2008. Here are our top selections from a very memorable year.