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The car of (them/their) is just amazing!

What should I use, possessive pronoun or objective case I like a thing of them/someone is sounding good to me.yet I'm perplexed!

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"Theirs" is to be used here.
But you can use both of the following:

The car of theirs is just amazing!
Their car is just amazing!

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    Just to note: the latter is way more natural to say.
    – achAmháin
    Jul 11, 2019 at 12:17
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    What about That car of theirs is just amazing? Wouldn't that sound better in the first example?
    – Smock
    Jul 11, 2019 at 12:45
  • @Smock Not necessarily. Only if you're pointing out to a car.
    – Bella Swan
    Jul 11, 2019 at 12:53
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    @BellaSwan or just referencing someone's car in conversation (at least in BrE). [talking about the Robertsons] That car of theirs is just amazing sounds much more natural to me (lacking any context in the OP to the contrary)
    – Smock
    Jul 11, 2019 at 13:05
  • I believe we use "that" when the thing(here car) has previously been talked about!
    – Yawar Naseem
    Jul 11, 2019 at 13:12
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Their is subject, them is object. You would mostly use 'them' at the end of a sentence i.e. something is done to them, or I took the car belonging to them. The word 'Their' always precedes something which belongs to 'them'. i.e. Their Car their holiday etc. I hope this makes it a little clearer.

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