What are your favorite car decades?

[Classic Anycar]

I prefer twenties to seventies.

 

[fangorn_forest]

My favorite decades are the 60's for the musclecars and lots of great Ferraris, and the 90's through now because I'm a big japanese supercar fan and also the proliferation once more of affordable, fast perfomance cars.

 

[1X83Z]

Twenties to seventies? That's sixty years.

Who are these people?

I mean, if you can have sixty years, then I can have even more - I prefer 1890s to 2000s.

 

[Azuremen]

Trying to win again...

80's and 90's - The Era of Japanese sports cars... so more like 85 to 95, with the MR2s, the AE86, the FC and FD and so on....

 

[Slicks]

The 60's, by far.

 

[ND4SPD]

I prefer the 60's then the 80's to present.

 

[Firebird]

Trying to win again...

80's and 90's - The Era of Japanese sports cars...

the AE86

Sorry sonny-jim, but it was a run-of-the-mill economy car back in the day, and is still a run-of-the-mill economy car now.

 

[Azuremen]

The 86 is nothing amazing, though I do like the 4A-GE powerplant, depsite its shortcoming in the 16 valve form. Its just a cheap, or at least was, RWD economical car that could be FUN. A car does not need to be fast to be fun. Hell, my Tercel was lots of fun when I wanted it to be.

I know exactly what the car is, I drive its better cousin, the AW11 MR2.

Yes, its not a sports car as much as a fun car, but whats it matter? At least I didn't talk about MAD DRIFTZOR SKILLZORS or something... But that era was the Japanese Sports car era, before exchange rates murdered the MR2 GT-S, the RX-7 TT, the 300ZX TT, the Supra, and so on...

 

[ShobThaBob]

Any car seems fun when you throw it sideways down a mountain. Typically though, really FUN cars are the ones that you can have fun in without having to endanger you and everyone else on the road.

 

[Azuremen]

Thus, slow ones With low limits. On gravel... on mountains Snow is also alot of fun...

Also, I just realized... how many 4 cyl RWD Japanese cars can you think of from the 80's? The 86, the AW11 MR2, the 3rd Gen Celica, the Nissan 200SX... and?

Out of those, the MR2 and the 86 have the same high reving engine... with less weight and what not...

 

[McLaren]

The 80's for so many beautiful cars from the 288 GTO, Testarossa, Countach, to the gorgeous Pantera and F40.

The early 90's ('90-'95) for the fact that automotive manufacturers wanted to push the last decade to the limits before the new century. Lamborghini succeeded with its beautiful Diablo VT, SV, GT, and GTR racers. And the introduction of Ferrari's F1 inspired F50 that pushed speeds going 204MPH. And how could I forget. Although short lived, McLaren Cars Limited became known and showed the world it was not going to be a push over with the famous F1, the Le Mans winning F1 GTR, the special F1 LM, and ultra rare F1 GT. Sadly, the company didn't quite make to the new centruy itself. However, the name lived on to get to that special Mercedes.

Both eras were a time for beautiful cars.

 

[slimer90210]

My favorite 10 years of cars: 1963-1973
-Mopar: 330, Charger, Challenger, Super Bee, Road Runner, Duster, Dart, Cuda, 426 Hemi, 383, 400, 340...
-Chevy: Nova, Chevelle, Impala, Camaro, Corvette Stingray, 302, 327, 350, 396, 427, 454...
-Other GM: GTO, Firebird, 442, Wildcat, 430, 455...
-Shelby: Cobra, GT350, GT500, 289, 427...
-Ford: Mustang, 302, 351, 427...

My second favorite 10 years of cars: 1948 - 1958
-Mopar: 300, Fury, 330 'Baby' Hemi...
-Birth of the Corvette!
-Chevy: 55-57 Bel Air/Nomad/Corvette, The Small Block Engine...
-1949/50 Mercury Coupe

 

[GameBoyFX]

I like the late 60's early 70's.....Super bee Camaro!

 

[MazKid]

Late '80s to early '90s.

 

[Victor Vance]

Eighties. Smaller engines making more power; turbos have a potential for MUCH higher than stock hp levels, not to mention response and smoothness, if you use modern parts. The cars still didn't have too much technology in them, more than I'd like but otherwise I couldn't pick a decade better than the eighties.

 

[GameBoyFX]

Well if i got a 69 camaro i would much rather replace everything in it and make them band new, because the older items are just.. not as good

 

[T5-R]

80's to mid 90's

Audi Quattro to Volvo 850 R

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

Just about any car or truck from 1967-1972

 

[Lethalchem]

I'd be curious to see what everyone's response would be if we were to limit this to just a single year. If that were the case, I'd say there were more beautiful cars built in 1969 than in any other year I can think of.

 

[liquidyellow]

Lamborghini Murcialago, Gallardo, McMerc SLR, Porsche Carrera GT, Ferrari Enzo, Ford GT40 reborn, Pagani Zonda, BMW M3, M5, M6 and so on.
I would say this one is my favorite the noughties or whatever its called? And we are only half way through.

 

[Takumi Fujiwara]

I'd say I've got two.

One is a decade and a half, 1960-1975, the golden age of the classic sports car. Ferrari, Lotus, Triumph, Lancia, Lamborghini, Shelby, Aston Martin, et al. The best racing and the most beautiful cars came out of those years. Datsun's 240Z, the original GT-Rs, the first Silvia, and the Toyota 2000GT came out of the same years.

The other is 1989-1999, the age of the Japanese sports car.
Those years saw the S13, S14, and S15 Silvia, the R32~34 Skylines, the MkIII (JZA70 / MA70 and IV Supras, the S5 FC3S and the FD3S RX7s, the Lancer Evolution and the WRX STi, the DSMs and the 3000GT, the Civic and Integra Type Rs, the NSX, the 300ZX, and on and on.

Also from that same time were the F355 and F360s, the F550, the M3 and M5, the legendary McLaren F1, the Diablo, and too many more to mention.

 

[1X83Z]

I'd be curious to see what everyone's response would be if we were to limit this to just a single year. If that were the case, I'd say there were more beautiful cars built in 1969 than in any other year I can think of.

1996, but 2006 will be the best model year in automotive history. At least until 2008. The combined years of 2008 and 2009 will probably kick more ass than a professional ass-kicker.

 

[Takumi Fujiwara]

What about 2007? It seems all the "next-gen" cars are 2007 releases.

 

[a6m5]

I like the 70's and 80's, but probably the 80's little bit more. I like the 70's for the style(especially their interior design), 80's because I grew up during the 80's.

 

[Blackbird.]

60s and 70s for all the muscle cars.

 

[Quick_Nick]

I'd be curious to see what everyone's response would be if we were to limit this to just a single year. If that were the case, I'd say there were more beautiful cars built in 1969 than in any other year I can think of.

Okay, I think 1994 was the best year for sports cars. The 80's & 90's are the best decades.

 

[Takumi Fujiwara]

I'd have to say '95. A year in which FD, S14, R33, 300ZX, and more coexisted, And, of course, my car's a '95....

 

[1X83Z]

What about 2007? It seems all the "next-gen" cars are 2007 releases.

Not sure how you decided this. For the last fifteen years, odd model years have been lesser years. The 2006 model year will be the biggest ever; 2005 wasn't that much.

 

[TwinTurboJay]

1957 to 1976

 

[Elstro]

The 1980s and the 1990s are the best decades.