Most beautiful automobile

[Llarry]

Related to the "Cool pics - vehicles" thread but more focused, name one -- and only one -- car that you consider to be the best-looking auto of all time. Price, performance, reliability -- none of that matters. Just the most beautiful.

My choice: Early/mid 1960s Jaguar E type (XK-E) roadster

[RigaTony1982]

My favorite:

[Esteban]

My favorite BMW: the 2000-2006 E46 M3.

[cmyx6go]

I don't know if I would call it the most beautiful but the '63 split window vette has always been a favorite of mine.

[Josh-PA]

My Fav 288GTO:

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

I don't know if I would call it the most beautiful but the '63 split window vette has always been a favorite of mine.


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Very nice.

[erickonphoenix]

A friend of my pops was delivering one of these to a guy in Houston when I was a kid. On the way he stopped by to visit us at our apartment in Beaumont. My jaw hit the pavement, I'd never seen anything like it in my life. The lines, the color, the stance, then the theater of that 351 Cleveland just made it look and feel like a cartoon.

He'd come through delivering some pretty cool cars but the De Tomaso Pantera was my all time fave.

[mjj]

Originally Posted by Josh-PA

My Fav 288GTO:

My favorite as well.

[Llarry]

Originally Posted by Esteban

My favorite BMW: the 2000-2006 E46 M3.

I considered the E46 M3, but the Jag won out. Still, if I could have just one (older) car, the E46 M3 would be it. I had mine for 7 years.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by Llarry

I considered the E46 M3, but the Jag won out. Still, if I could have just one (older) car, the E46 M3 would be it. I had mine for 7 years.

The Laguna Seca Blue (my bottom pic) is my favorite color.

[TboneS54]

E46 CSL obviously

[Llarry]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

I don't know if I would call it the most beautiful but the '63 split window vette has always been a favorite of mine.

Great choice!

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by TboneS54

E46 CSL obviously

Of course, but not available in the US.

[Alfisti]

[NikMN]

Originally Posted by Alfisti

All great choices but Type 33 is the correct answer

[ShopVac]

Since someone already posted my GTO

I'd say that I also got a soft spot for the Aston Martin V12 Vanquish with a manual. DB5 looks nice, but I'd take this.

[Car-Addicted]

Always at the top of my list: Ferrari 330 P 3/4

[3798j]

For me...it's the 1956 Alfa Romeo 1900 SS Zagato

[///MPhatic]

Originally Posted by Josh-PA

My Fav 288GTO...

I'm not sure if I'd call it the most beautiful, but it's certainly my pick for most desirable, with a few tweaks, of course.

After seeing renders like these by Jon Sibal, and people actually recreating them, I think my pick would be one of them.

[GarySL]

My car

[NickyC]

Huayra BC Roadster or Zonda Cinque. Can't decide which.

[dradernh]

Originally Posted by Llarry

Related to the "Cool pics - vehicles" thread but more focused, name one -- and only one -- car that you consider to be the best-looking auto of all time. Price, performance, reliability -- none of that matters. Just the most beautiful.

My choice: Early/mid 1960s Jaguar E type (XK-E) roadster

A white Series III E-Type Roadster I owned back in the mid-70s is still the one for me. Like your choice, they look as good today as they did then. Others tick that box for me, too, but that one I owned, so it tops my list.

I used the car to run back and forth from the Texas Panhandle and Denver Metro. While the car had a number of notable, engineered-in flaws, I was still young enough to ignore them while reveling in the smooth, rheostat-like delivery of its incredible 12-cylinder engine. For the day, it was a terrific GT car.

I put 18K on the car and sold it for $500 less than I paid for it two years earlier. Labor was $12/hr. in Texas, so it didn't cost me much at all to own.