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title: "What’s the Coolest Car Key You’ve Ever Seen?"
date: "2024-01-22"
modified: "2024-01-22"
authors:
  - name: "Andrew P. Collins"
    job_title: "Executive Editor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/andrew-p-collins"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/whats-the-coolest-car-key-youve-ever-seen"
categories:
  - "Culture"
  - "News"
  - "QOTD"
---

# What’s the Coolest Car Key You’ve Ever Seen?

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/22/300ZX-Titanium-Key.jpg>)
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An elegant key or fob is one of my favorite car details to be impressed by. I mean I'm not saying an ugly key is a dealbreaker. But when a key is exceptionally interesting, I always think of a car just a little more fondly. What's the best you've seen?

If we're talking old-school, classic keys (that physically slide into rollers) I think my personal favorite is the rounded one you'd find on a Z32 chassis Nissan 300ZX. It's a great shape—I [had a key made in this style, from titanium](<https://47point9.com/product/300zx-titanium-key-n1/>), for my older Z31 when I had that thing and it was totally worth it. I loved the look and feel of that thing so much. Early NSXs also have really nice-looking Ti keys.

For more modern stuff, I like Porsche's Porsche-shaped keys (cute) though I don't know if they count as "coolest I've seen." I like the Kia Stinger's fob too, which looks like some kind of bomb detonator. I'll have to mull a little longer to decide what my actual all-time favorite is.

I know there are some really neat [aftermarket options for air-cooled Porsches](<https://www.formawerx.com/>) and some intense decorative wireless key fobs for current-gen luxury cars. But I'm more interested to hear about what you've encountered in your travels. So what’s the coolest car key you’ve ever seen?

## Author
As Executive Editor, Andrew touches everything on the site from daily news coverage to feature stories, sponsored content, product reviews, road testing vehicles, ecommerce, and more. He's held pretty much every role there is to have at an automotive news site and has been with The Drive's publisher Recurrent since 2020. Andrew's a lifetime gearhead and longtime writer with a particularly strong penchant for road trips, off-road adventures, and archaic vehicles. His passions outside of the automotive world include skiing, obsolete video games, and his dog Bramble who occationally helps review cars.

### Author social links  
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[LinkedIn](<https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewpetercollins/>)