The worlds Most Beautiful Car?

I wouldn't be a fan of it either...looks like it was made out of plastic and left in the oven for a couple of hours!
I'd reckon that the Mercedes Gullwing would be up there in the list of the world's most beutiful cars

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It's like a bunch of beautiful curves put together in all the wrong ways....getting those big long straighter panels with that quality back in 1940 something must have been a heck of a job.
 
Oh, I disagree Lefty and demorier!

It appears a very early Luis Colani effort. I love that car, always have. It does seem out of proportion, but once must consider the time and the engines available them. That's one reason the rear is so long. This is a mid-engine, rear drive car, unheard of in an American car at the time. the engines were huge straight-8 cylinder, long. It also featured an aluminum body over a steel chassis, this was one step beyond for its day in the USA.

But like Colani's designs, it is a stylist's car there is no practicality in it whatsoever. I love the look, but I have always loved curved fenders that looked like a cat hunched and ready to charge.

Caz
 
I'm really torn between a few. For classics the Lotus 11, Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato, the Jaguar XK120, the Jaguar E-Type, there are so many that are beautiful to behold.

For modern cards then it's the Aston Martin V12 Vantage, and I do love the new Lotus Evora.
 
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I used to own a Austin Healy and I took it to Birmingham, Ala. to get it tuned. I had it don't several times in my home town and it just got worse. There was a German Mechanic there that, I was told, really knew his cars.
While I was waiting on mine, he said it'll only take a few minutes, I rambled in the shop. Way back in the back of the shop was a red Gull wing Mercedes. Right next to it was a Red Farrai, like the repoduction in Miami Vice. Very rare to see both cars side by side.
The Farrai alone was valued at over a million.
I will never forget that ...........
 
hewman100 said:
This is what it would probably look like with the curves in the 'right' places.
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Or like this: http://www.1001ch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/auto-union-type-c-streamliner-salon-de-geneve.jpg The Auto Union Type C high speed record car. :d

But of course there's nothing wrong with a nice XK120:

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Or a Ferrari 250 Lusso:

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Or a Lamborghini Miura:

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How about a Bugatti T55:

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Or this Lancia Aurelia Spider :

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Another classic, the Jaguar D-type:

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Or the best design of the last ten years, the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione?:

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I could go on for hours! :jump:
 
It's not often you see two of these in a small po-dunk like I live in, but these two were parked at a local appliance dealer during one of my recent walks.

The Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione is beautiful Ferry, looks like Colani had a hand in it.

Caz

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Isn't it interesting that as soon as a car is paid off - it becomes the most beautiful car in the world to it's owner. . . !



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Toastmaker said:
Isn't it interesting that as soon as a car is paid off - it becomes the most beautiful car in the world to it's owner. . . !

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There are exceptions to that rule, of course. I never though my Mazda 323 wagon was beautiful, even when it was paid off. And I doubt Cazzie was smitten with his Chrysler Town & Country...

Brian
 
'ere Maddog, that's a British Design Classic, and Icon of the 20th Century. ;):unitedkingdom::salute:
 
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