Good arguments are made here for most of these – but the Buick Riviera? Because of its touch-screen? That's really a stretch, especially when you exclude such automotive landmarks as the 1922 Lancia Lambda (first monocoque; first FWD production car; first production car with four-wheel brakes); 1891 Panhard et Levassor (first car with engine at front, driving through a clutch to the gearbox, then out to the rear wheels – the layout for virtually every car for the next half-century); and, of course, the 1959 Austin Mini (walk down any street: how many cars under two litres do you see that DON'T have a transverse engine driving the front wheels in a two-box shape?).
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