The Best Looking British Cars

[GarfieldLeChat]

Morris Minors look fantastic. E Type jags are cool too.

i've always thought that the early etypes were to skinny on the wheels it looks like they sit wrong. the later ones were a bit fatter and sat better...

nearly bought one as my first car it was £800 which was a bloody fortune to me but i was smitten with owning one. took it for a test drive it pulled to the left all the time and had many many many visable holes through which you could see the road. It was a builders car really and had been treated very unkindly... it diid have that glorious engine note and felt like it would have been a hell of a goer if i had tried. in the end i went for the sensible option and didn't get it got a moggie instead i have to say the traveller handelled much better and was a lot smoother than the Etype...

subsiquent etypes have drive have sadly put me more and more off them as an orniment they are great, but they aren't all that... now the C type... or the Dtype... oh dear god it's a shame that the production models were a comprimise too far...

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

Baby you can dive my car...

sepaking of which i still owe you a drive and things dont' think i have forgotten... what you doig later on this year...

 

[Roadkill]

sepaking of which i still owe you a drive and things dont' think i have forgotten... what you doig later on this year...

I'd be over the moon at the chance of a go in the Bentley.

 

[Poi E]

Bloke in my hometown had a Bentley turbo painted matt black with the plate "Satan". Well cool.

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

Bloke in my hometown had a Bentley turbo painted matt black with the plate "Satan". Well cool.

pah they ain't real bentleys though...

 

[Poi E]

pah they ain't real bentleys though...

They break down like real Bentleys, though

 

[corporate whore]

Rover P6

gets my vote

 

[pseudonarcissus]

Got to disagree about the A35. I think they look great, in a camp sort of way. Owners tell me it's one of very few cars that will make people go 'Ah, innit sweet?'

I love the way you yank on the winged "A" hood ornament to get inside the bonnet

 

[pseudonarcissus]

it's a bit sad how so many of our faves appear on this list

 

[dessiato]

largely cos the a35 was/ is a bloody arwful car...

Actually that one is an A30

The Minor originally had the pre-war sidevalve engine though.

Got to disagree about the A35. I think they look great, in a camp sort of way. Owners tell me it's one of very few cars that will make people go 'Ah, innit sweet?'

this is an A35

 

[pseudonarcissus]

and for completeness, here's an A40, like my grandad's, not a pretty car

 

[Roadkill]

Oh I think the Farina A40 looks rather good. It's not dramatic but it's clean and functional, and it still looks quite modern.

 

[Roadkill]

With small cars, though, the question is the old Ford Anglia:

Is the old Anglebox endearing or ridiculous? I can never decide.

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

I kinda prefer the damiler dart for similar looks.

It kinda looks likea flatterned anglia

 

[Roadkill]

I've just thought ...

Ford RS200 - one of the best-looking of the Group B cars, if not the most successful

 

[ethel]

e type jag...every time..

 

[Firky]

Caterham R300 is beautiful and sounds even better.

Austin-Healey 3000, sex!

Not british but I don't care! I once had a ride in one of these around Keilder Forest and my guts were in the back seat. AMAZING piece of kit.

Lancia Delta Martini.

 

[nellyphant]

With small cars, though, the question is the old Ford Anglia:

Is the old Anglebox endearing or ridiculous? I can never decide.

Blimey my dad had one of these when I was a nipper. He used to rally prepare cars and took my mum in one that he modified and ended up leaving the rear axle at a set of traffic lights!

 

[Firky]

Got a soft spot for this thing too

Silver Ghost

 

[nellyphant]

Caterham R300 is beautiful and sounds even better.

Austin-Healey 3000, sex!

Not british but I don't care! I once had a ride in one of these around Keilder Forest and my guts were in the back seat. AMAZING piece of kit.

Lancia Delta Martini.

The Healey is a very beautiful auto-mobile indeed (and v.fast!).

Is that an Delta Intergerali?

 

[Firky]

My favourite vehicle of all time.

gives me a stiffy! Great fun to fly around in off road too, they go through anything

 

[Roadkill]

Is that an Delta Intergerali?

No, it's a Delta S4.

And it's Italian.

 

[Firky]

The Healey is a very beautiful auto-mobile indeed (and v.fast!).

Is that an Delta Intergerali?

Nope, it is a Delta Integrale

 

[Firky]

No, it's a Delta S4.

And it's Italian.

Shit! I googled and you are right

 

[Roadkill]

Shit! I googled and you are right

I iz teh anorakz

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

The Healey is a very beautiful auto-mobile indeed (and v.fast!).

Is that an Delta Intergerali?

no s4 corsa

 

[nellyphant]

I've just thought ...

Ford RS200 - one of the best-looking of the Group B cars, if not the most successful

American though

 

[Roadkill]

American though

Not really - conceived, built and rallied from Essex.

True, Ford are originally an American company but Ford Europe is very separate and a lot of their cars designed and built here. I reckon the RS200, the Escort and so on count as British cars.

 

[chriswill]

 

[nellyphant]

TVR Speed 12 - I used to work with a guy who used to have one of these beauties...It was a fast as my motorbike! Just looked up the specs and it does 0-60mph in 3.3 secs!