What do you think is the coolest car ever?

[Zobeid]

Take another look at the topic that started this thread. . . It's not asking for the fastest car. It's not asking for the most expensive or most exotic. It's not asking for the funkiest or most flamboyant. And it's not asking for the most sophisticated or most elegant. I've seen a lot of great cars that excelled in those categories -- it's an automotive carnival out there, and I love it. I love looking at all the photos the rest of you have posted.

However. . . The operative word was coolest. And I think there's only one really good answer to that.

 

[skalogre]

Anyone remember this?
V16 engine...

 

[Mute]

There are a number of cars that I really love but for me the moniker of "cool" belongs to this car:

 

[chrysalid]

Originally Posted by Zobeid

Take another look at the topic that started this thread. . . It's not asking for the fastest car. It's not asking for the most expensive or most exotic. It's not asking for the funkiest or most flamboyant. And it's not asking for the most sophisticated or most elegant. I've seen a lot of great cars that excelled in those categories -- it's an automotive carnival out there, and I love it. I love looking at all the photos the rest of you have posted.

However. . . The operative word was coolest. And I think there's only one really good answer to that.

no no no no no. the sort of people that drive these nowadays (at least round my neck o' the woods) are faT middle aged working class family men with a nerdy propensity for line dancing, blues played badly, and confederate flags. blokes just like coogan's new mach 1 mustang driving character saxondale - http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/programmes/?id=saxondale

cool american cars from that sort of era include the loewy penned studebaker avanti:

 

[Nantucket Red]

The 16 cylinder Auto Union

 

[chrysalid]

Originally Posted by Nantucket Red

The 16 cylinder Auto Union

in the latest topgear mag there's a piece about a company that makes exact replica's of these, generally for their ancestor company audi. i'd never heard of them, beautiful tho'.

 

[Nantucket Red]

Applying full throttle in any gear, even in high gear at high speeds, would spin the wheels.

 

[xficklefashionx]

Originally Posted by CTGuy

WHOA! that is definitely one cool car.

 

[gdl203]

 

[lawyerdad]

Well, if we're talking coolest and not necessarily best-performing, I'd go for something like one of the following:

http://www.komar.org/car/1972_oldsmo...hock_tube1.jpg

http://www.ninanolte.com/paintings_big/fotos/1474.jpg

I once knew a beautiful girl who drove me up into the mountains in a bright orange VW Thing. If context counts, that one's the hands-down winner. Err, after the red VW Cabriolet my wife was driving when we started dating, that is . . .

 

[odoreater]

Without a doubt: