The 10 Most Beautiful Cars of All Time

Yahoo News/CNBC ^ | Colleen Kane

[Michael.SF.]

1954 Mercedes-Benz 300SL

It was the fastest top-speed production car at the time. The 1954 edition was the first consumer-oriented (non-racing) car sold with fuel injection.

[Michael.SF.]

Some hits and misses, IMHO. The list is alost exclusively sports cars and seems to not sewriously consider any others. But if we limit it to sports cars, how could they leave these three beauties off the list?

The Mark II may not qualify as a sports car, but it sure is gorgeous. Certainly such lists are of interest and never definitive.

Bugatti

1956 lincoln continental mark ii

1938 Talbot Lago 130 C

[bgill]

Ack, to each his own but they do beat today’s boring cars hands down.

[yarddog]

The Jaguar XKE has to be one of them. Probably won’t be listed as there were so many made.

When I was growing up in the early 60s there was an old man, a rich old man, who drove one of those Mercedes sports cars around town.

I doubt if he ever got it over 50. He typically cruised around at maybe 30mph.

[chrisser]

Have to disagree on the Porsche and the Challenger. Not that weren’t great cars and attractive, but top 10? Sorry.

I’d even say the DB and the GT40 don’t belong in terms of pure beauty. Top 100? Maybe.

And nothing from the 30s? Like the late 30s MB 500k just to name one?

[dfwgator]

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

1968 Pontiac Firebird

[Michael.SF.]

LOL.

I am shocked that bad boy did not crack the list!

[knarf]

1960 Buick LeSabre

[re_nortex]

Maybe because it takes me back to my early 20's when life was good, and before GM became a government-run entity, but the 1965 Pontiac Catalina always appealed to me:

[The Cajun]

Just because I owned one, way back when and it could run. I know, I'm a red neck coonass :^)

[commonguymd]

Recently sold my 65 Bonneville convertible. Very similar vehicles. Loved it.

[yarddog]

The wagon queen family truckster was one tough vehicle.

“You think you hate it now”

[knarf]

That's my car without the chrome wheels.

Ageanta teal blue, tach on the hood .. 350 OH cam, 4 speed.

Too much car for my mush head young mind, I broke it.

[drbuzzard]

I would take the current Austen Martin DB-9

over most anything on that list.

Or the original Lincoln Zephyr.

[WakeUpAndVote]

[knarf]

PS .. bought it in October ‘68 (demo, about 300 mi) for $3,050.

[Responsibility2nd]

Not that weren’t great cars and attractive, but top 10? Sorry.

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Indeed. The author was confusing beauty with performance.

Some of those cars were beautiful. Some were performance only. Some were both and some were just OK.

[andyk]

Better than a crappy purple Scion.

[dfwgator]

[andyk]

Better than a crappy purple Scion.