Best looking car ever made

Sporky

Jo-to-po said:

New Lotus ain’t bad:

Looks better than it drives, sadly, and by too big a margin. Desperately needs to shed 300kg.

Offset

Sporky said:

Jo-to-po said:

New Lotus ain’t bad:

Looks better than it drives, sadly, and by too big a margin. Desperately needs to shed 300kg.

A mate of mine has one on order.  He has lots of nice cars (in the trade) and I'm interested in getting a spin in it when (or if) it materialises.

Still can't get away from Loads Of Trouble, Usually Serious...

Jo-to-po

Sporky said:

Jo-to-po said:

New Lotus ain’t bad:

Looks better than it drives, sadly, and by too big a margin. Desperately needs to shed 300kg.

I don’t know a great deal about it beyond the two available engine configurations and the price; as for the weight I imagine even if it was as spartan as an Elise was it’d still weigh more than they did back then, but I imagine Lotus made a conscious decision to have a slightly more ‘luxurious’ interior as they probably need to shift a good few of these, and the market for something as stripped-out as the 90s/00s models probably just isn’t there!

rlw

Devil#20 said:

GT3


Daytona

The Daytona even looks scary, which is very appropriate.

ICBM

Paul_C said:

Surprisingly, all four wheels are on the ground...

Try that in a Rover 3500 V8 and the weight of the engine would roll the outside front tyre off the rim.

Joyous things, 1970s British Leyland cars! My dad had a succession of them, mostly Austins and Triumphs, they were all crap. My aunt had a Maxi that was the *colour* of shit but was surprisingly not that bad as a car.

After the BL abominations he had one of these, which was very good indeed and I still think pretty good-looking -

Sporky

The Emira weighs twice as much as the original Elise...

DB1

I won't claim that they're the best looking (there are some fabulous looking cars in the thread, but I had a couple of Griffiths (and three or four Chimaeras) and loved the look of them, especially the Griff. The A610 pictured below was actually my car - I graduated to it after a couple of GTA's.

Deadman

Maserati A6GCS

roberty

Car threads remind me of this haha

DB1

I went to try a TVR 350i in a garage in Worcestershire, but fell in love with the Lancia Flavia. I didn't come home with either, but came home with a kitten instead which I found in a layby halfway through the test drive.

roberty

rze99 said:

Brize said:

An Aston Martin showroom salesman let me sit in the driver seat of one of these when I was about 9 or 10 back in the mid '70s.

It made a big impression on me at the the time. I also remember vividly the price on the windscreen - £7,999 - which may as well have been a million to a little squirt from humble background. 

About the same as a Murphy Lab Les Paul ;-)

Axe_meister

Corvette C1, E-type, DB5, Elise S1b

GuyR

rze99 said:

GuyR said:

Offset said:

...and who would have thought that a mere decade or so after designing what was to become the Cobra, AC's next notable contribution to automotive history was, errrm, this:

This is the reason I could never buy a strat in daphne blue

thanks. I never made that association before and now I have to look at my blue Fenders

If they’re nitro, leave them by a south facing window for 10 years and they’ll turn green. Sorted 

LastMantra

DB1 said:

I went to try a TVR 350i in a garage in Worcestershire, but fell in love with the Lancia Flavia. I didn't come home with either, but came home with a kitten instead which I found in a layby halfway through the test drive.

My sister had a reliant kitten. Not sure where she found it.

  

DB1

LastMantra said:

DB1 said:

I went to try a TVR 350i in a garage in Worcestershire, but fell in love with the Lancia Flavia. I didn't come home with either, but came home with a kitten instead which I found in a layby halfway through the test drive.

My sister had a reliant kitten. Not sure where she found it.

  

I wish it had been a Reliant. The little tortoiseshell bastard absolutely hated me.

LastMantra

ICBM said:

Paul_C said:

Surprisingly, all four wheels are on the ground...

Try that in a Rover 3500 V8 and the weight of the engine would roll the outside front tyre off the rim.

Joyous things, 1970s British Leyland cars! My dad had a succession of them, mostly Austins and Triumphs, they were all crap. My aunt had a Maxi that was the *colour* of shit but was surprisingly not that bad as a car.

After the BL abominations he had one of these, which was very good indeed and I still think pretty good-looking -

My mate had the older model, I think, with the round headlights? Red. Wasn't a GTE but it was a slightly posher spec. than basic iirc. Loved that car, was the first between us when we were young, went loads of cool trips in it. Would have been quite old at that time but good condition. 

crosstownvamp

DB1 said:

I went to try a TVR 350i in a garage in Worcestershire, but fell in love with the Lancia Flavia. I didn't come home with either, but came home with a kitten instead which I found in a layby halfway through the test drive.

The PF Flavia's nice from the side, and the fast back is gorgeous  but the twin heads are a bit ugly on the front. Don't ask me how I know!

DB1

I do like the headlights, funnily enough. But... how do you know?

AK99

Axe_meister said:

Corvette C1, E-type, DB5, Elise S1b

Interesting - never came across the 'b' suffix on the S1 before, and I thought I was verging on proper Elise anorak level territory at one stage. Can I ask, what's the S1b when it's at home ? 

duotone

1972 Porsche 911 Carrera RSH

https://www.carscoops.com/2022/01/this-1972-porsche-911-carrera-rs-is-a-sought-after-classic-hence-the-1-35-million-asking-price/

https://www.carscoops.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Porsche-911-Carrera-RS-1.jpg

https://www.carscoops.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Porsche-911-Carrera-RS-8.jpg

https://www.carscoops.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Porsche-911-Carrera-RS-3.jpg