Alfa Romeo

One of Italy’s most storied car-builders, Alfa trades on a glorious history of fast, beautiful road and race cars, at least some of which weren’t terribly unreliable. On its good days, this Turin-based manufacturer serves up fizzily exotic alternatives to the strait-laced German exec fare (hello, Giulia Quadrifoglio!). On its bad days, it serves up lightly reheated Fiats (hello, MiTo!). Hardly a reliable banker, but never, ever boring.