Cartoon cars are often more popular than real ones. Here are our top 10.

1. The Flintstones car

How could this not be the ultimate cartoon car? To start, it's a rag top, so it's got sex appeal. It's a family car, seating a whole family and its pet dinosaur. Most importantly, it's the ultimate in green power. Forget about hybrid machines and electric power, this car was powered by foot and included two-foot brakes. And it came with leather seats. The number plate was XYZ643 not YABADO as in '94 movie.

2. Homer Simpson's car

Indestructible and pink. Homer's car was crashed so many times, yet it kept returning to each episode brand new - except for a minor dent in the front. It features a driver's side airbag, a bent radio aerial, and an eight-track audio system. While it is modelled on a 1973 Plymouth Valiant, Homer's mechanic says in one episode it is made from Soviet tanks and built in Croatia. The orange station wagon driven by his wife Marge is also similarly indestructible.

3. The Homer

Yes, from the same cartoon show, this was Homer's vision of the perfect car. It was the height of sex appeal with its shag carpeting, tailfins and three horns that played La Cucaracha. Homer said the engine sound causes people to think the world's coming to an end and has "power like a gorilla, yet soft and yielding like a nerf ball". But its crowning glory was its family values with its separate sound-proofed dome to enclose the kids in the back seat, including restraints and muzzles. It also had supersized cup holders. It cost $82,000 and sent his half-brother's company bankrupt.

4. Scooby Doo Mystery Machine

This multi-coloured psychedelic van was a mystery because it seemed to be able to fit a huge number of people: a Great Dane, four teenagers, the Harlem Globetrotters and various guest stars. The van was bought by redhead Daphne Blake's rich dad. He should have bought the rights to it as well, because millions have been made on the toy version.

5. Speed Racer's Mach 5

At 5000 horsepower this race car has five times more power than a Bugatti Veyron. It has many features such as being able to drive on the ocean floor, jacks for super jumps and quick repairs, and seven buttons on the steering wheel that could adjust road traction - 40 years before Ferrari thought of doing it with its F1 race car.

6. Lightning McQueen

The star of the Pixars film, Cars, is an amalgam of three of the best-loved sports cars of all time: Chevy Corvette C1, Mazda MX-5 and Dodge Viper. Add a big smile on its face and give it a bright disposition and who couldn't love it? The car is mistakenly believed to be named after Hollywood star and car nut Steve McQueen, but is actually named after a Pixar worker who died of skin cancer.

7. The Gadgetmobile

Inspector Gadget's car was, of course, loaded with gadgets. They include the ability to turn itself into any other type of vehicle, radar to track Gadget's location, tyres that expand upwards and retractable jail bars for criminals in the back seat. But it's really a hoon machine with its rear-mounted powerful engine and constant law-breaking speeds. The Gadgetmobile says: "Speed limits are for cars, not the Gadgetmobile."

8. The Compact Pussycat

Penelope Pitstop's compact pink convertible in the Wacky Races had red lip bumpers and was a beauty parlour on wheels. She often used these features in her car to improve her appearance and distract the other drivers in the race. Sometimes they even let her pass. Typical!

9. Spider-Mobile

Spiderman's car wasn't ostentatious like the Batmobile, but a fun dune buggy. Spider-Man was asked by Corona Motors to drive a non-polluting vehicle but he asked friend Johnny Storm to customised a dune buggy. It features web-launchers, a spider-signal and could be disguised as a normal car. It was wrecked but later modified to go up walls and drive itself.

10. Hong Kong Phooey's Phooeymobile

The "number one super guy" travels around in the Phooeymobile fighting crime with the aid of his manual, The Hong Kong Book Of Kung Fu. He's an incompetent anti-hero and a shocking driver who crashes into everything but gets away with it. When he drove the Phooeymobile through wet cement, splattering workers, they said it was an honour to have a whole day's work ruined by "the great Hong Kong Phooey". The perfect car for incompetent drivers.