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Old 02-20-2008
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American cars of the 90s and 2000s. Caprice, Roadmaster, Taurus, Crown, Towncar, Intrepid, Caravan, Charger, CTS, Impala, I just love them all. If I had the choice between a Lambo and a Caprice, I would choose the Lambo. But just because I can sell it for alot of money and buy a Caprice for lets say 6000 bucks. B body ftw!!!

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personally, im a fan of the 60's to 80's.... for both America and UK.

basically Mini's, Cortina's, moggi minors, muscle cars, hotrods, etc etc.

theres a few exceptions with what I class as "modern" cars... Cossy's, Skylines, and the DB9.... other than that... I dont think theres anything fantastic now... and especially with everyday cars... the designers are going too "futuristic".
I also hate most "Super cars".... mainly for the fact that when I think of them, it just brings images of mid-life crisis people with too much bloody money lol


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I find that in most decades there are cars that I like based on technical stuff and looks, but am not so much liking modern cars with power everything. love the mechanical stuff. my thing is size of cars, big heavy and room for 6! not to mention big block motors! 454, 460, 440,500! my closest period will be 1930's to 1990.

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1930s to 1970s for me, and Porsches mainly =)

There are exceptions, of course...
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Old 02-28-2008
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i think that ervery periode has a lot of good cars

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Old 03-07-2008
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I love the 1930's, mostly.

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Oldschool muscle cars and jap hatches really turn me on.


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Old 05-04-2008
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Sadly I can't say that the 60s/70s had the best cars. There were a handful that stuck out, but, frankly, the Golden Era of automobiles is relative. In a sense, since they're only been around for just over a century, there haven't been enough changes to truly make any decade the 'Golden Era'.

If anything we're on the verge of a Golden Era as we step into alternate fuels, lower CO2 emissions, better collision safety and even cars that park themselves and incorporate adaptive cruise control right up to stopping themselves at traffic lights.

Technologically speaking vehicles are about to step into an era of automation, function leading form and a sensibility of purpose that before was more of a luxury than a necessity.

That being said, I do like progressive design. As far as aesthetics are concerned the latest breed of concepts and hybrids are always going to be, to me, and in relative terms, the peak of the Golden Era.

Also, the 50s because of the DB5 ^_^;
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97 Supra, It starts and ends there =)

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From the design point of view I prefer the 30's, and especially the late 30's. Especially all those hand-built one of a kind bodies. I suspect that in terms of performance those cars were not especially exciting in todays standards. But still.

In any case high quality handwork is something I appreciate a lot. In fact the well-executed 3d models fall in the same category. Unfortunately, nowadays, when everything around us is mostly made in ... somewhere else, it is difficult to come across really high quality artefacts.
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