Cool Factor, The: A Guide to Achieving Effortless Style, with Secrets from the Women Who Have It

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This promo poster from Watchmen. True, he could be lighting the cigar purely from the convection of heat, or off the barrel of the flamethrower, but you do NOT want to taste a cigar that's been lit off a kerosene flame. Riding a motorcycle is an exhilarating, wild, wind-in-the-hair adrenalin rush that most riders find addictive, and it never seems to fade. Ridiculously Potent Explosive— For when normal explosives just don't give the necessary cool-factor. As with the above list, these blasts from the past are selected on a wholly subjective basis, and have been chosen with significant personal preference and prejudice. You will find no Porsches, Ferraris or Lamborghinis in this rundown because of this, and also because enough online lists of cool cars already exist detailing some of the more iconic cars from these manufacturers. 1. Renault Avantime Nobody will know what it is, but that air of mystery isn’t the only thing that makes the Facel II cool (we’ll admit the name is a bit awkward, though). Built in tiny numbers by a company that went bankrupt not long after it started making cars, just 26 right-hand-drive Facel IIs were made. This French luxury GT car was billed as the fastest four-seater coupe in the world in 1962 thanks to the 6.3 and 6.7-litre Chrysler V8s that powered it.

These cars are painfully cool, hailing from a time when Mercedes build quality was the epitome of high-end automobile manufacturing. It's also the only justification for some of the tactics depicted. Even if the hero knows nothing of his own world's history, common sense should tell him that having lightly armed cavalry charge armour and machine guns is suicide but it's such cool, heroic suicide that he does it anyway. Note that you only get to invoke the Rule of Cool if the end product is, in fact, cool. Note also that different opinions on what is "cool" create the most arguments over this. The Rule of Cool is very subjective. Failure to properly use this trope can cause collision damage with walls.Even more painfully, the SEC used to cost buttons on the second-hand market, but a growing recognition of just how special these large coupes are has pushed prices up. The 560 AMG model, meanwhile, commands serious money – if you can find one. 3. Honda NSX The Grazing Shed is a parable of life in twenty first century Wales," goes their missions statement. "A couple of young individuals taking destiny into their own hands, leaving behind unfulfilled lives of wasted talent to come together with their different skills to create something from nothing and make it work!" Couldn't agree more! Irrespective of missing out on Hollywood fame, the 500 is still loved the world over, with Fiat’s newer versions continuing to sell well. Part of the original’s charm was down to its stylish exterior, dinky proportions and incredibly simple interior. Not all models were born equal, though, because the 500 L (or Lusso – meaning luxury) had a more plush cabin including a different instrument panel and seats. One example, pointed out by Bob Gale on a DVD Commentary, occurs in the third film. Doc and Marty try to get the DeLorean up to eighty-eight miles per hour by pulling it with horses. Gale pointed out that the Doc would know horses don't run that fast and the Doc even points that out in the scene. However, the filmmakers had to do that shot with the DeLorean being ridden across Monument Valley like a covered wagon because it would look cool. Porsche 911 The driver’s choice in the cool cars list, the Porsche 911 is an icon of design and engineering

Most will know of James Bond’s original watch of choice, the Rolex Submariner – still just about the most complete watch you’d ever want. It arose with the boom in recreational SCUBA after the war, but by 1967, the hardcore commercial divers of France’s Compagnie Maritime d’Expertises (COMEX) needed to take things up (or rather, down) a few levels. The NSX would be cool even without Senna’s involvement, though, being a truly usable supercar decades before the Audi R8, and a car whose chassis was the benchmark against which the McLaren F1 was set. Oh, and before we even begin to talk about the looks, did we mention that the naturally aspirated V6 engine redlines at 8,300rm? 4. Lotus EspritAlthough not the very first hot hatch to have ever been made, Volkswagen’s Golf GTI didn’t half make a success of it. As the story goes, VW engineers decided that while the standard Golf was a good car, it really needed a little more fire in its belly. So, in their spare time (between designing normal car parts and eating bratwurst) they tweaked the styling, played with the engine and created an icon. Among motorcyclists, the wheelie is the stunt that is the most well-known and the one that is performed the most frequently. Even people who are not in the motorcycling world know what a wheelie is. “Doing a wheelie” may be a fun pastime, but it is also a pretty dangerous move to try. You must… Importantly, though, the Range Rover Classic was (and still is) massively comfortable and hugely capable when the going gets muddy. Such features proved all too alluring for the elite of the day and as a result it wasn’t long before the Range Rover had morphed into a luxurious five-door off-roader.