There is a narrow window in the history of the road car, the years after electronic driver aids became possible but before they came to define the way very fast cars behaved, when a handful of manufacturers still treated the driver as the primary control system. The Ferrari F40, the McLaren F1, the Porsche 911 GT2 of 1995, and the Pagani Zonda F belong to different points within that transition. Four machines, three countries, eighteen years, and the same underlying question: how much responsibility should remain with the person behind the wheel?