Your favorite car of all time

Ded_Zebra · 16-05-2013 09:30PM #1

Self explanatory thread is self explanatory.

Post some pics and info about your favorite car.

**One car per post please**

My favorite car is the Lamborghini Miura.

3.9l V12, 5 speed manual. In original guise it produced 350BHP which worked it's way up to 380BHP over the years.
Here is the Wikipedia page:)

Sorry about the large pics but needed them to do the car justice :P

Supergurrier · 16-05-2013 09:40PM

The greatest car of all time will no doubt going by the history books be the Bugatti Veyron (rightly so imo)

Comfort @ a physics defying 270mph

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Personally i have always loved the 300ZX TT and it's that or a V8 for me next

Ded_Zebra · 16-05-2013 09:44PM

Were the stars and the bold in the OP not clear enough!!!!

Pique · 16-05-2013 09:46PM

One ? Oohhh so many to choose from.

Not really. BMW E30 M3.

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coylemj · 16-05-2013 09:58PM

OP, agree that the Lambo Miura was an awesome motor but I never liked the Sinsheim eye lashes.

Ded_Zebra · 16-05-2013 10:01PM

Every Miura S had those lights

EDIT: Post I posed in reply to was edited. S lights are still better though

Anan1 · 16-05-2013 10:11PM

The original 8v Delta integrale.

Pique · 16-05-2013 10:24PM

Anan1 wrote: »

The original 8v Delta integrale.

That was the only other car in contention with my choice (albeit briefly).

Wouldn't say no if you threw me the keys of either, though.

Integrale in the Martini colours....a work of art!
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That one (albeit an Evo) is a Norn Irish one too, I think.

dgt · 16-05-2013 10:26PM

Anan1 wrote: »

The original 8v Delta integrale.

Excellent choice!

There is only one Delta for me....

And despite driving/owning a lot of cars I sought after, I'll prob never ever get a drive in that monster....

bazz26 · 16-05-2013 10:29PM

Honda NSX:

mb1725 · 16-05-2013 11:45PM

Lotus Esprit Turbo in red, does it for me!

JerCotter7 · 17-05-2013 12:08AM

Supergurrier wrote: »

The greatest car of all time will no doubt going by the history books be the Bugatti Veyron (rightly so imo)

Comfort @ a physics defying 270mph

Personally i have always loved the 300ZX TT and it's that or a V8 for me next

Just because the Veyron can go 270mph doesn't mean it would be comfortable at it.

Also the one for sale can't actually go to the top speed. :P

Supergurrier · 17-05-2013 12:14AM

JerCotter7 wrote: »

Just because the Veyron can go 270mph doesn't mean it would be comfortable at it.

Also the one for sale can't actually go to the top speed. :P

It is a luxury car as much as a sports car tbh, look at the other 240mph+ cars and the engineering behind them, they are basically dragsters yet still not as fast accelerating or at the top end.

Tigger · 17-05-2013 12:20AM

mustang boss 429

wrong wheels but you get the idea

Pique · 17-05-2013 12:42AM

Supergurrier wrote: »

It is a luxury car as much as a sports car tbh

They said the same about the Porsche 928.
"Nothing as luxurious goes as fast, and nothing that goes as fast is as luxurious."

The 928 is a footnote in the annals of automotive history.

The F40, 959, EB110, XJ220, F50 and Veyron are all examples of 'the fastest' but that (IMO) does not make them the 'greatest'.

Lurching · 17-05-2013 12:43AM

It has to be the McLaren F1 for me. Ever since the day it came out.
I remember Jeremy Clarkson (I think) driving it, explaining that you needed to plug your phone line directly in to the car prior to your service to alert the garage about what was going on with the car.

V12, 627 BHP, more precious metals than you can shake a stick at and more boot space than a Punto.
Oh, and that central driving position.

It's one of the few cars that's still appreciating in value.

It also looked sweet in the Gulf racing colours:

anthony4335 · 17-05-2013 12:47AM

I was always a sucker for the DMC12

dh0011 · 17-05-2013 01:07AM

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opel rekord from the 80s. Just a big comfy tank

Boskowski · 17-05-2013 06:03AM

I'm one for the classics so for me it has always been - even as a child - the original 1954 Mercedes 300 SL.
The gullwing is a right looker but I prefer the convertible.

The most beautiful car in the world

The 'gullwing'

The roadster

Wibbs · 17-05-2013 08:13AM

bazz26 wrote: »

Honda NSX:

+1 though I'd go for the Type R version myself.

Pique wrote: »

They said the same about the Porsche 928.
"Nothing as luxurious goes as fast, and nothing that goes as fast is as luxurious."

The 928 is a footnote in the annals of automotive history.

The F40, 959, EB110, XJ220, F50 and Veyron are all examples of 'the fastest' but that (IMO) does not make them the 'greatest'.

+1 I really don't get the Veyron myself. Yes I certainly appreciate the engineering, but I find it too "nerdy" a car. A Playstation car made flesh, all about the figures, a brain with no heart. Aesthetically it's also too heavy looking for me. The McLaren F1 on the other hand is much more a drivers car. Engineering is spectacular, but there's heart in it too and the design works far better to my eye. Pity the company haven't gone for the 3 up cabin in subsequent models.

Yea the Mercedes 300 SL is sex on wheels alright. E-type jag would be another.

h3000 · 17-05-2013 08:18AM

If I had to choose just one it would have to be the 911. I'd love anything from the late 70's 3.0SC right up to the 991.

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime · 17-05-2013 08:20AM

tbh mine is a car that I would possibly never own because its not very practical but I do like how they put so much power into a tiny car .

2L turbo (glanza or starlet ?)

tiny box with lots of power, would love to drive one (a decent one) just to see and so on but I don't think I would buy one and own it for at least a year

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Mycroft H · 17-05-2013 08:22AM

Wibbs wrote: »

+1 though I'd go for the Type R version myself.

+1 I really don't get the Veyron myself. Yes I certainly appreciate the engineering, but I find it too "nerdy" a car. A Playstation car made flesh, all about the figures, a brain with no heart. Aesthetically it's also too heavy looking for me. The McLaren F1 on the other hand is much more a drivers car. Engineering is spectacular, but there's heart in it too and the design works far better to my eye. Pity the company haven't gone for the 3 up cabin in subsequent models.

Yea the Mercedes 300 SL is sex on wheels alright. E-type jag would be another.

The Veyron is the automotive equivalent of Concorde. There will never be a another car that was ever like it. A technical masterpiece that can do more than 400km/h/. We'll never see a supercar that had so much effort put into it again. I love it.

Wibbs · 17-05-2013 09:13AM

BX 19 wrote: »

The Veyron is the automotive equivalent of Concorde. There will never be a another car that was ever like it. We'll never see a supercar that had so much effort put into it again.

They said exactly the same of the F1 back in the day funny enough.

Naturally it's down to personal taste after all, but for me the F1 is twice the drivers car the Bugatti is. It's far purer in intent and execution. It's a damn sight prettier and was shaped by the wind, whereas the Bug was shaped by a designer and made fit the wind(to be fair that was some achievement). The F1 weighs half as much as the VW and is more nimble, yet can seat three up and has more luggage space if such things matter.

Like I said the Bug is all about the numbers, with acres of powerups even "cheats" to get there. Take the Top Gear drag race. It's since come out they had to do ten takes to get the result they were after, as the Bug bogged down off the line as the Mc headed for the horizon. Even in the final take the Mc has the tubby Bug by the nuts until well over 100Mph. Switch on launch control in the Bug? Cool, but the clutch won't last too long and it's another "cheat". Hell in the Bug you have to stop the car and flick a switch to put it in hyperspace mode. None of that with the F1.

They worked backwards from the design and the numbers. If we're talking airliners, the Bug is like a Jumbo Jet forced to go as fast as Concorde. As I said no mean achievement and one worthy of admiration for the boffins who did it, but the best supercar of all time? Not for me.

Then again it is down to personal taste and preference. IE down at the more everyday level, I'd far prefer an EK9 Civic Type R to a Mark 6 VW Golf Gti so that's where I'd be coming from and the reason why I'd rate the F1 way ahead of the Bugatti.

EDIT I suspect history may treat the Bugatti the way it treated the Lambo Countach. When I was a kid the latter was fap material on bedroom posters for a generation. Today it's seen more as an overhyped overweight monster.

Viper_JB · 17-05-2013 09:13AM

That's a though question...so many cars to pick from....and my favorite changes all the time

Ferrari 458 for one for some beautiful technology

M5 E60....I hope to own one at some point

dharn · 17-05-2013 09:32AM

Pagani Zonda

advertsfox · 17-05-2013 09:39AM

First thing that came to my mind - has to be the Clio V6.

piston · 17-05-2013 09:46AM

MK 1 Golf 1.8 GTI

Fast enough in the real world, comfortable enough, practical enough, economical enough, a great all rounder, and unlike all the previous cars mentioned, it is entirely possible for me to own one.

So very tempted to say Carina II Diesel...it is Ireland after all.

mailforkev · 17-05-2013 10:07AM

If I came into serious money in the morning I'd be down to order my new Porsche 991 but this is what I'd really love.

1984 Ferrari 288 GTO.

First 300 km/h production car and kinda eventually turned into the F40.

Also, just look at it.

Tea 1000 · 17-05-2013 10:18AM

Wibbs wrote: »

Like I said the Bug is all about the numbers, with acres of powerups even "cheats" to get there. Take the Top Gear drag race. It's since come out they had to do ten takes to get the result they were after, as the Bug bogged down off the line as the Mc headed for the horizon. Even in the final take the Mc has the tubby Bug by the nuts until well over 100Mph. Switch on launch control in the Bug? Cool, but the clutch won't last too long and it's another "cheat". Hell in the Bug you have to stop the car and flick a switch to put it in hyperspace mode. None of that with the F1.

While I agree with you largely in principal, I have to pull you up on this. Top Gear, while I love it, is a tabloid-like production with an immense British bias, who always go for show over facts.
That race was a farce, a few proper motoring jornos have said as much. A turbo car like the Bugatti will lose a larger percentage of it's power in those sort of temperatures than an N/A car, and not allowing a car to use it's launch control and putting a guy who can't really drive behind the wheel in it versus a racing driver in the McLaren is also a farce. The Launch control is part of the car, it's not a cheat. It has an auto box, it needs launch control to tell it when to give maximum off the line acceleration. Not allowing it because it's a cheat is bollox, that's like saying "turn off the auto-pilot in the Eurofighter and it can't even fly, so it's crap and worse than an F14". It was designed with it's use in mind.
Also, just go to Autocar for any real information on the Bugatti versus the McLaren. You can give a McLaren a 10 second head start... think about 10 seconds of a McLaren accelerating at full tilt... then set the Bugatti off, and the Bugatti will still reach 200mph first. That's all you need to know. The F1 never had nor never will have a Veyron by any nuts.
Which you'd rather own is a completely different matter, and that brings many other factors in, but there is no comparison in straight line speed.
And Top Gear magazine themselves admitted that the race was set up deliberately to favour the McLaren. They love British and still hate the Germans. Look at even the F1 power board. Brought Lewis back on the most ideal day for it, gave him a different Liana, and let him keep going until he beat Vettel.
Look even at the Tesla article, where they admitted that it didn't run out of charge, they pushed it back to the garage just to make their own point. It could have driven there!

Tea 1000 · 17-05-2013 10:21AM

Having said all of the above, you can keep the F1 vs Veyron argument! This is the drivers car I want to own above all others...

toastedpickles · 17-05-2013 10:25AM

If there's a more evil sounding car out there I've yet to find it

The thing's I'd do to have one of these frightens me

DELTATIP · 17-05-2013 10:30AM

My first motor A 1 liter Silver metallic 4x4 great crack

gallag · 17-05-2013 10:31AM

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lotus carlton.

mitosis · 17-05-2013 10:40AM

Muckie · 17-05-2013 10:48AM

Here are my favs

Pique · 17-05-2013 01:08PM

mailforkev wrote: »

1984 Ferrari 288 GTO.

First 300 km/h production car and kinda eventually turned into the F40.

Also, just look at it.

I remember reading a story about Eddie Irvine powersliding one of these around some city in Italy when the Polizei pulled him. Once they realised who it was (he drove for Ferrari at the time) they just laughed and sent him on his way.

The 288GTO is my ultimate supercar. the original GTO and an utter beast but as you say....just look at it !

wesf · 17-05-2013 01:19PM

Nissan Skyline R32 GTR, nicest of all the skylines and I will own one.

dodderangler · 17-05-2013 01:50PM

My favourite has to be the Mitsubishi lancer ex turbo gsr
Absolute cracker of a car
Can't upload pics but this is a site I found with pics of it
Enjoy
http://jdmikediecast.blogspot.ie/2009/12/1984-mitsubishi-lancer-ex-turbo-gsr.html?m=1

Larbre34 · 17-05-2013 02:06PM

I'll just leave this here....

However, for real world classic car aspiration the M100 6.9

Joe 90 · 17-05-2013 03:02PM

Boskowski wrote: »

I'm one for the classics so for me it has always been - even as a child - the original 1954 Mercedes 300 SL.
The gullwing is a right looker but I prefer the convertible.

The most beautiful car in the world

The 'gullwing'

The roadster

Mercedes have produced 2 interesting cars in my lifetime. The gullwing door, space frame, low pivot point rear swing axle 300SLR and the current SLS. First one when I was in short trousers, indeed not long out of a nappy and the second one when I'm getting on a bit.

Only about 60 years between them so there is hope for Ford yet. They haven't produced a road car to lust over since the 3 door Cosworth Sierra.:D

H3llR4iser · 17-05-2013 03:09PM

toastedpickles wrote: »

If there's a more evil sounding car out there I've yet to find it

The thing's I'd do to have one of these frightens me

More evil sounding? I think I found one

toastedpickles · 17-05-2013 03:14PM

H3llR4iser wrote: »

More evil sounding? I think I found one

It's up there alright, but it doesn't sound as angry as the quattro

I'm just waiting now for dgt to one up me, like most examples I've given in threads :pac:

The camber one being an example

Red Kev · 17-05-2013 03:36PM

This is what I'd buy with a Lotto win, with honourable mentions to the F1, F40, Porsche 959 and Miura.

Not everyones cup of tea but a beautiful and very elegant car in the flesh, the detailing and craftsmanship on it is second to none.

KT10 · 17-05-2013 03:41PM

Mazda RX7 FD3S, owned one for a while, awesome car, I see another in my future at some point

djimi · 17-05-2013 04:09PM

This is very definitely my "when I win the lotto" car!

Alanstrainor · 17-05-2013 04:29PM

djimi wrote: »

This is very definitely my "when I win the lotto" car!

Sure it probably only costs about 20 quid :P well the one in that pic at least!:D

TomMc · 17-05-2013 05:42PM

What I'd really like - Siata 208CS, Lancia B20 GT or B24

I'd settle for a Jensen FF

But alas a Fiat 130 Coupe or Renault Alpine A610 is about all I'll ever be able to afford.

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glynf · 17-05-2013 07:38PM

V4 · 17-05-2013 09:31PM

af_thefragile · 17-05-2013 09:53PM

One day...
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All time favourite muscle car:
71 Hemi 'Cuda

Favourite supercar:
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Dem curves!!!!!

Your favorite car of all time

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