Most Beautiful Car EVER?

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I had only been here a couple of months at the time of making this thread.

The quality of my posting has much improved.

Also, no-one liek Diablo?!?!/
 
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Woah, now thats cool 👍
 
my favs would be these:

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AMC Gremlin

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'86 MR2

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Alfa Romeo Junior by Zagato

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205 T16

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Volvo P1800

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Toyota Celica TA-22
 
I wouldn't call any of those particularly beautiful...but great cars. '80s cars...let's face it, not pretty. Those would all be fun drivs, though. The Gremlin? Screaming for someone to turn it into a Drift car someday, all that motor room, Rear wheel drive, and a hatchback. the TA22? a micro-musclecar.

Okay, I'll let the P1800 go as beautiful.
 
My list changed a little.

3. 350Z
2. DB9
1. Carrera GT

3:
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2:
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1:
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God that car looks hot in yellow!
 
I'm sorry. Nobody seems to comprehend the stylistic triumph that is the Volvo 240. THose swooping, flowing curves...





















.....:confused: No, really. Volvo 240 = pretty.
 
I have to agree with Top Gear on this one...
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Good lord the Brera is a good looking car, if they were sold in the states I would take one in a heartbeat.
 
The Brera is supposed to be coming here for 2009, along with the 159, and stories are also saying that the new FIAT 500 and maybe another FIAT or two will join the Alfas as well...

I've always been a sucker for the C2 Corvette, and I'd have to say that its in my top-five all-time lookers.

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(1966 C2 Vette pictured)

Among other noteable models to be included:

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(Porsche 911 Carrera RS 2.7)

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(Toyota 2000GT)

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(Ferrari 575M GTC)

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(Triumph TR6)
 
I might have to start saving my nickels and dimes then, I would love to own one of those.
 
The angle on that Carrera GT posted by JCE3000 is just BEAUTIFUL! Not saying that any other angle of the car is not because it's a gorgeous car but that angle is amazing.
 
The Toyota concept looks like something I'd stick into my shoes to make them fight right. It may even work as a door-stop. Sepository? Some kind of electric shaver? Its ugly, oddly-shaped, and has no chance of production.

...At least they (Toyota) got the LF-A right...
 
So, there are plenty of long threads here on car pictures... imports, muscle cars, hot rods, sexy and mean cars... but as far as I can see there isn't one dedicated to true automotive beauty. Not agression - an R35 GTR is a great looking car because it's purposeful and agressive but it certainly isn't beautiful.

Here we're looking for curves, elegance, grace, perfect colour schemes, intricate details, and certainly no bodykits unless the designer was called Bertone, Pininfarina, Zagato, or some other exotic moniker. Don't bother comparing performance either - that's missing the point.

Try and keep it to one pic per post, unless you're showing a couple of views of the same car. Gives people with slow connections a chance and gives everyone else a chance to discuss the car you've posted :)

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So, my addition to get the ball rolling.

The Figoni et Falaschi Talbot-Lago T150SS "Goutte d'Eau"

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What a car to get us started with. Dedicated coachbuilders were very popular around the 1930s and 1940s for taking a basic saloon car chassis and reclothing it in swooping curves. The T150SS was designed for racing, which just makes it even cooler.
 
And herein lies the problem.

Beauty means different things for different people. Who's to say what's truly beautiful, and what's not?

I mean...I think this car is beautiful...

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But you probably don't, seeing as how you're probably more concerned with the baroque classics, and perhaps early-mid '60s European GT and sports cars. Who's to say you can't find beauty in a late '60s American sports coupe, in the strong lines?
 
You're right, I generally think of beautiful cars being sleek teardrop 30s cars or voluptuous 60s European sports cars, but I can see the beauty in that Charger. I was expecting some muscle cars to be honest, and as you said beauty is open to interpretation. Which is why I encourage discussion and debate :)

With regard to the Charger, it has a beauty that many muscle cars do not however. I'm a big fan of Mustangs, Challengers, 'Cudas etc, but the Charger has much cleaner lines. It's long and elegant, and has subtle haunches that suggest the power within.

It'll be interesting to see from which decade the most beautiful cars appear. I have a sneaking suspicion it will be the 60s, thanks to the racing cars, sports cars and muscle cars from that decade, but you never know.

Keep the pictures coming :D
 
This to me is beauty:

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And so is this:
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That Merc is just so beautiful. Its a shame that I'll NEVER see a real one in person much less own one.
 
I think the Gullwing Benz could quite possibly be the most beautiful car to hit the streets. However:

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That is a good challenger. Any Auto Union car is right up there in my book for that matter.
 
Definitely agree with the Merc, it has the elegance and attention to detail that makes it a genuinely beautiful car. Not a line out of place, and a classic style that gives it effortless cool, and doesn't make the driver look a bit of a plonker like a modern SL does.

The Roadrunner (or is it a Superbird?) isn't beautiful to me, which is strange considering it's based on the Charger which I'd agreed was a very elegant car. The nose is aesthetically (though not physically) blunt, and the spolilers and graphics are too OTT for me to consider them beautiful. However, seeing one doing 200mph on the banking at Daytona would give it the beauty it needs - it's a race car and that's it's perfect environment.

Again, certainly not saying you're wrong, as everyone has their own idea of beauty.

I'll throw another one into the mix - our first Ferrari in the thread.

1966 Ferrari 330 GTC

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Now this was a difficult one. I already knew I loved the car, but one of the things I mentioned in the original post was colour. The 330 looks completely wrong in red, as do pretty much all front-engined Ferraris in my opinion. Mid engined Ferraris should be red or yellow, and the tourers should be chosen in metallic blue, silver or black. Classy colours to suit classy cars.

The 330 is an incredibly pretty car. Nobody would look more right driving such a beautiful Ferrari as a beautiful young woman. The shape of the car is tapered elegantly at both ends, the lights, tail ones especially, are small and discreet. All the lines are subtley accented in chrome, including the four fluted tail pipes.

The GTS spyder version is argueably even more beautiful, but I've always prefered coupes to soft-tops so the GTC it is.
 
The Roadrunner (or is it a Superbird?) isn't beautiful to me, which is strange considering it's based on the Charger which I'd agreed was a very elegant car. The nose is aesthetically (though not physically) blunt, and the spolilers and graphics are too OTT for me to consider them beautiful. However, seeing one doing 200mph on the banking at Daytona would give it the beauty it needs - it's a race car and that's it's perfect environment.

Closer to 160 really...


Finally, a non-riced S13!!
 
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Always love the car back then, now and forever. The only modern supercar from Japan....... :(
 
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