Forever young...............

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nissan tuner
i dont think most of you guys read the thread title (including OP)
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The thread title refers to sort of an impossibility. I don't think there's really any car that will look forever young. Plus people were born in different years, so what appears young to one person may not to another.
 
isuzu 4200
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from 1989
plus their vehicross
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designed in 1993 still looks quite fresh now
 
nissan tuner
i dont think most of you guys read the thread title (including OP)
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It seems you didn't either then ;) I've tried to justify all my choices at the very least.

ROAD_DOGG33J
The thread title refers to sort of an impossibility. I don't think there's really any car that will look forever young. Plus people were born in different years, so what appears young to one person may not to another.
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Agreed. As I mentioned a couple of pages back, it'd be easier to pick cars that have aged badly than ones which look modern even today. I honestly can't think of a single car of more than ten years old which doesn't look dated today. There are many cars in this thread that look good now, but nothing really that I'd describe as "forever young".
 
yea true... anything now sucks to me.

almost every car out now has an identity crisis


anything after 99 i hardly like.
 
bit of a flop this thread eh?

the later the cars come the more they get gradually less driver-involved, automatic this, computer aided blah blah and made so joe public cant do anything to it easily, or cheaply
 
homeforsummer
I'd love a CitiGolf, to me it's got a very appealing combination of classic looks, good performance and a good interior.

Sadly I'm pretty sure they've stopped production of the Kombi too now, I seem to remember a year or two ago they came out with the Serie Prata (Silver edition) which was supposed to be their end-of-line model. Yet another classic-yet-new VW I'd love to own, along with an end-of-line Beetle.

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(For the record I'm not including this in my "forever young" choices)

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Was it not just the transition from air-cooled engines to water-cooled units?

The really big thing with some of these cars are pop-up headlights, which have effectively died today. If you give some of the cars with them exposed covers, they'd look at least a bit less dated, like the Celica or the Venturis.

The Lotus Esprit looks old, but has lasted anyways.

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As road cars thinly disguised as race cars go, it looks old compared to modern prototypes but still fresh compared to supercars. Even the CLR/CLK-GTR road car of the same year looks aged compared to it. Of course, seeing as it was built fairly recently, it may not be truly forever young, but it certainly made the competition appear from a bygone era.

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On that subject, I think it is just me, but the lines of the R-34 Skyline seem to be able to stand for a couple of years and still look young.
 

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