FirstOrDefault behavior directly in LINQ statement

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Seems like I may have missed something simple in the syntax, but I'd like to get the results of FirstOrDefault from a linq statement directly without having to store the IEnumerable in a temporary variable first. Something like this:

var bestCar = from c in cars
              orderby c.Price
              select first c

I know the first keyword doesn't actually exist but illustrates what I'd like to do. I also know I can wrap the from...select statement in parenthesis and call FirstOrDefault directly but I think the above syntax is cleaner and easier to read.

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