Mercedes-AMG SLS Black Series

Black Series is the badge AMG puts on the versions it stops being sensible about. The SLS was already unusual - a very long bonnet, a cabin pushed back over the rear axle, doors hinged from the roof - and the Black Series took weight out, widened the track and left the 6.2-litre naturally aspirated V8 alone. It ran for two model years, and the car that replaced the SLS uses a twin-turbo 4.0, so this was the end of that engine in that body.

The doors are the obvious shot, which is the reason to be careful with them. A gullwing opening is the single most photographed thing about this car; lead on it and the film is every other film about this car. The more interesting problem is the proportion - the distance from front axle to windscreen is absurd, and it only reads from a low three-quarter where the bonnet runs away from you.

Doors up also changes the lighting completely. Two large panels swing overhead and turn into reflectors, bouncing the rig back down onto the roof and the shoulders. It's genuinely a different setup to the same car with the doors shut, which is worth knowing before you open them.