In naming the SVX as his #10 choice for best of the '90s Sports Cars, Peter Brock had the following comment when he got some flak on his choice:

"One of history's great unknown classics, the SVX is the poor man's Porsche 959! All-wheel drive and a flat-6 engine in a handsome body that missed being perfectly done by just a few miscued lines. The designers of SVX swung for the fence and narrowly missed. The SVX was just too far ahead of its time."

Amen, Pete... (His choice for #1 is the McLaren F1).

For those of you who may not know, Brock is the designer of some significant cars, among which are Jim Hall's first Chaparral
and the Cobra Daytona Coupe, so his choice of the SVX has some
provenance.