Photo: Lamborghini
Sometimes you really can judge a book by its cover. When you're talking cars, some look so good, you just don't care about anything else. Are things like fuel economy, cargo room, practicality and comfort important when most folks buy a car? Yes. Do we care about them here? No.
For this round-up of true automotive art - vehicles that make your heart race like Charlie Sheen on a night out in Vegas - it's all about the looks.
We've put together a collection of the most beautiful new cars for 2012, at least to this beholder's eyes. Sure, they're mostly pricy machines, and there may be more heart-stopping ones that aren't redesigned for this model year. But these are the latest and greatest examples of automotive art coming to North America for 2012, in no particular order.
