BMW Turbo

1972 BMW Turbo Gullwing doors grab the eye, but look past them. The Turbo's center console was angled toward the driver so a belted driver could reach the controls, and BMW put that driver-oriented layout into production in the first 3 Series of 1975. Most BMW dashboards still lean toward the driver. It also carried a radar distance warning that showed the gap to the car ahead and sounded an alert when it closed too quickly. That system never went on sale, and it only warned rather than kept a distance, but BMW's radar-based Active Cruise Control arrived on the 7 Series in the early 2000s. Its turbocharged engine reached showrooms far sooner, in the 2002 Turbo of 1973.