What’s the best part of CSR Racing 2? Is it the racing? The car-customizing and tuning? Perhaps the giddy feeling of collecting your dream machines?

That stuff is all nice. But the part that’ll blow your mind is seeing those automobiles in AR (augmented reality). After placing the cars in your own driveway—or for that matter your living room—you can walk around them, pop the door and hood, and peek inside.

The cars in this game are not just for looks. CSR Racing 2 is a drag-racing game, the keys to victory being your ability to nail the launch of your cars, the timing of your shifting, and the strategy of when to use your nitrous boost. As you win, you earn the in-game currency to upgrade and tune your cars.

Thanks to AR, see the race cars you’ve built up in photorealistic renderings—either as small as a toy car or at life-size scale. Take the spectacular Lamborghini Aventador Coupé, for instance. In CSR Racing 2 you can get close enough to examine the carbon fiber on the dash and the pop of red stitching on the steering wheel.

Now move on to the Porsche 911 GT3. Notice how the ignition switch is to the left of the steering wheel, as it is in every Porsche. Raise the rear hood of the Koenigsegg Agera, a car most of us will never even see in real life, and peer over its 5.0-liter turbocharged V-8.

There are more than 200 officially licensed vehicles in the game from the likes of Ferrari, McLaren, Bugatti, Pagani, Ford, Honda, Toyota, Mercedes-Benz, and BMW.

And since this is AR, you can hand your iPhone or iPad to a friend and pose next to your dream ride for a photo. For a lot of us, it’s as close as we’ll ever get to these cars.