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I know I might have posted a thread similar to this in the past, but right now I'm really digging the "cocaine" Countach. White on white on white, while snorting some white inside the car just perfectly captures this era of total excess and the dirty money that bought this car in the first place.
One of my favorite details on this car is the wheel/tire package. Those 5 spoke "phone dial" wheels, finished in white, just look at the staggered sizes on those tires. Absolutely hilarious, skinny 205/50/R15 on the front, mongo wide 345/35/R15 on the rear. Even today, there are very few cars that have that sort of wide, meaty rubber on the rear tires, it just made the Countach really look the business.
A 1987 to be exact. They were very wearing to drive on the streets. Really heVy clutch, punishing ride, after an hour or two the smile just isn't as big. Definitely a true iconic beast of a car though.
Go back 22 years to the jaguar e-type, and you have my favorite. The body styling was just gorgeous. The drive train and suspension were way ahead of its time. Plus it was rewarding to drive. Then in 2011 there was talk about bringing it back. It's styling was darn close to the original. To bad it never made it to production. It was probably due to the estimated 700,000 price tag.
1965 e-type 2012 e-type
I never was a big fan of this type of car (my automotive tastes are quite conservative)....but if I had to choose an exotic favorite, for sheer looks, I'd probably take the Aston Martin DB9/Vantage.
I never was a big fan of this type of car (my automotive tastes are quite conservative)....but if I had to choose an exotic favorite, for sheer looks, I'd probably take the Aston Martin DB9/Vantage.
I think the DB9 would be my choice too. Perfect match for my daily.
I think the DB9 would be my choice too. Perfect match for my daily.
Is that your Jag there, with the Union Jack on it? Interesting. Mini Coopers, of course, offer that as a roof treatment from the factory...aong with several other designs.
So many choices, but ultimately, Ferrari F458, but only because I got a brief experience driving it in one of the Vegas "drive an exotic" experience. Truly a scintillating and sublime experience. A car so docile, it betrays its wild beast nature underneath all that "dream car" styling that oozes refinement. It's a car that would urge you on to rev the living daylights out of that engine and its superb chassis.
I never was a big fan of this type of car (my automotive tastes are quite conservative)....but if I had to choose an exotic favorite, for sheer looks, I'd probably take the Aston Martin DB9/Vantage.
Of the Astons of the "modern era", which I consider DB7 and onward(the DB7 of the mid 90's was a revolution for Aston Martin IMO), the DB9 is my favorite. I know they've tweaked it various times and called it the same basic car the DBS and Vanquish, but for me the best styling was the original, clean lines of the DB9. Its like every time they tried to "improve it", they put on more front air damns, more side skirts, more spoiler, more boobles and doodads that muck up the really pure lines of the original DB9.
BTW, the Vantage is a seperate series of cars on a smaller chassis. While they look similar to the DB9/DBS/2012+Vanquish, they are not the same car. The Vantage had a V8 standard, was much smaller, and much cheaper in price than the DB series of cars. Vantage did get the same V12 from the DB series cars in later years, called the V12 Vantage, which is also a damn cool car IMO, lighter than the DB series with the same V12.
My other favorite "exotic" is the Lamborghini Miura. Striking in a totally different aesthetic IMO. I saw one of these in a museum(exhibit was celebrating post WWII hand built Italian cars), I must say I spent the most time staring at the Miura. $40 million Ferrari 250 GTO, beautiful car, I spent about 5-10 minutes looking at it. The Miura, I must have spent the better part of an hour looking at it, taking pictures, getting on my belly/back to look under it, talking to the museum curator, etc. It was by far my favorite car in the exhibit, and this included some rather bonkers 1 one off concepts and the most valuable car in the world(the Ferrrari 250 GTO, although I don't think that example they had on display would fetch top dollar, it had an IMO beautiful patina)
Despite the Miura and Countach having totally different asesthetics, there was one common thing I noticed between the two of them, the ride height, seating position, roof height, its just ridiciously low. I'm all of 5'6" and both of those cars, the roof is at about mid thigh. Both of those cars just look so alien and different from any other sort of road car from that time.
Mini Coopers, of course, offer that as a roof treatment from the factory...aong with several other designs.
Your favorite "exotic" car . . .
