Hong Kong, Feb. 11 -- Style and speed have flirted through generations of luxury and competitive motoring. Switching in reverse, let's take a look at some of the former 'world's fastest cars' that were also considered style icons.

The thrill of speed is truly something but sometimes, the automobiles delivering these thrills can turn out to make quite the style statement as well. Right since the dawn of motoring, we've always wanted to figure out how to make things go faster. Which then became a sport and a dedicated industry of automobile engineering. But there's a junction where the road and track meet and a long list of cars that drive there. Some of these, end up being eternal style icons of their generation which we'll be focusing on...