oldest new looking car

[cptsideways]

r11co said:

cptsideways said:

I'd quite like one in my garage.

Proves my point about the rose-tinted specs.

The only reasons I'd want one is because they are weird & rare, I have no use for one, I'm sure it horrible & it will be st. But that what I like about them.

Still think they look newer than they are though

Edited by cptsideways on Sunday 24th April 10:18

[r11co]

cptsideways said:

Still think they look newer than they are though

Which is not the brief.

[Hugh Jarse]

r11co said:

Not borderline. Absolutely square out the ballpark (with square being the operative word). 10 years is being generous, as by 1998 most cars had curves. There is nothing about that CRX that doesn't say '25 year old car'.

Edited by r11co on Sunday 24th April 10:18

Harsh
Honda insight fails what exactly? milky headlamps?
RX7 1991 has pop up lights, but other than that looks perfect today.
Agree the Inifiniti is awesome but 2003 aint that old.

[r11co]

Hugh Jarse said:

Honda insight fails what exactly?

It was an attempt at a vision of the future, which usually means dead end. Covered arches date it as nothing has adopted that look (and Citroen were trying it 20 years before - again running up a dead-end).

Hugh Jarse said:

RX7 1991 has pop up lights, but other than that looks perfect today.

Same issue as Sagaris. Harking back to classic lines of 60's sports cars. Pretty but not modern.

Hugh Jarse said:

Agree the Inifiniti is awesome but 2003 aint that old.

13 years is two or even three model generations by today's standards, plus nothing else looked like it at the time and now everything in that sector does.

Edited by r11co on Sunday 24th April 12:58

[anonymous-user]

r11co said:

Hugh Jarse said:

Ill add this from 1988, if only to beat the RX7 which i reckon is winning (might have been already suggested), but it is on the borderline of "Old cars that were ahead of their time and looked like cars from 10 years later, but look old now."

Not borderline. Absolutely square out the ballpark (with square being the operative word). 10 years is being generous, as by 1998 most cars had curves. There is nothing about that CRX that doesn't say '25 year old car'.

My exact words when seeing a CRX had been put forward: "What the f*** are you talking about?".

Bonkers. It is THE most 1980s car there is. There is no other car that looks more 80s than a CRX! Unbelievable!

[EnglishTony]

coopedup said:

EnglishTony said:

Somebody start a poll.

Including the Alfa or I'm not playing.

Wots an alfa dude?

An alfa dude is an alfa male wearing sunglasses.

[Tuvra]

Hugh Jarse said:

also honourable mention from 1989

Both dated by rubbing strips on their bodywork. We need rubbing strips. BRING BACK RUBBING STRIPS.

GET OUT!!!

[F1GTRUeno]

To quote Kim Jong-Il in Team America...

Why is everybody so fking stupid?

[coppice]

A better question may be 'Why does every expression of an opinion so often provoke such outrage if the opinion is not shared? Opinions aren't facts. '

Or perhaps 'Do you get quite so angry if a real life conversation takes an unexpected turn ? '

Anyway.... I play my BMW M1 card.

Cue outrage

[m3jappa]

I had my Tuscan painted in a shade of essex white a couple of years ago and I still think that is this was released today it would still create a stir. Perhaps apart from the lights a very modern looking car. If they were drl, bi xenon turbo led all round then would look even newer

[CoolHands]

I always think they look exactly like a kit car.

[r11co]

coppice said:

A better question may be 'Why does every expression of an opinion so often provoke such outrage if the opinion is not shared? Opinions aren't facts. '

What was the saying about opinions and aholes?

I'm damn sure though that if responses were correlated with ages we would soon establish that the wayward opinions are coming from a generation who still think CDs are pretty cutting-edge technology.

[anonymous-user]

OP here, original topic not really answered but the thread is still interesting and my original OP status, pence per posted comment is still rolling in, £100 quid so far, so keep 'em' posting.

[F1GTRUeno]

coppice said:

A better question may be 'Why does every expression of an opinion so often provoke such outrage if the opinion is not shared? Opinions aren't facts. '

Or perhaps 'Do you get quite so angry if a real life conversation takes an unexpected turn ? '

Anyway.... I play my BMW M1 card.

Cue outrage

Opinions aren't facts, everything is subjective, however there just isn't an argument for some cars that have been posted in here. The CR-X really takes the biscuit but people are really pushing for the Diablo yet it's about as 90's as it gets.

[BVB]

Alfa GTV and Spider 916. Come out about 1995, and still fresh, better looking than most current affordable cars.

[ajmcampbell]

Some decent suggestions here.
Agree with the Aston V8 Vantage, D3 Audi A8, L322 Range Rover (particularly post-facelift), Mk1 Infiniti fx and the Avantime
(bit of trivia: "Avantime" is a portmanteau of "Avant" and "Time" i.e. "before it's time")

Early, unmolested E92s also spring to mind... they aren't looking too shabby at all for an 11 year old design.

[300bhp/ton]

[DiscoColin]

ajmcampbell said:

Early, unmolested E92s also spring to mind... they aren't looking too shabby at all for an 11 year old design.

...That has been out of production for less than 3 years. An old car is defined by when they stopped making them, not when they started. Otherwise - essentially - the Merc G wagon looks both ancient and brand new at the same time

Edited by DiscoColin on Monday 25th April 21:46

[M1C]

r11co said:

coopedup said:

M1C said:

DiscoColin said:

Can we have a stipulation on this thread that candidates must have been out of production for at least a decade - there are far too many cars being suggested which were still in production far too recently to be valid for the original premise of the subject... ?

I'll go with that and self-declare the TVR Sagaris the winner! ??

we have a winner

bks. It doesn't look modern, it just looks different. A styling tangent, with cues dating back to 1960's and '70's sports cars like the Marcos and the E-Type. Pretty - yes. Modern - not in the slightest.

It's about time some people accepted that they don't understand the brief and are re-interpreting it so they can post pictures of cars they like the look of (as is always the case when these sorts of threads go off-track).

cptsideways said:

Has this been mentioned yet?



It was sharp when it came out, obviously too sharp as nobody ever bought any. Rarity at least means they are not a regular sight on the road and of course most owners dare not use them in case of borkage.

How does any of that fit with the brief? Avantime was another styling dead-end, so fails by default.

cptsideways said:

I'd quite like one in my garage.

Proves my point about the rose-tinted specs.

cptsideways said:

So far the Sagaris is winning this hands down, 2nd is the A2

I think you will find that the Infiniti FX has already walked off with the trophy, because it has been the only suggestion that 100% fits the brief.

gizlaroc said:

I think there must be lots of really old people posting in this thread.

With many of them demonstrating early onset dementia.

Rocco1 said:

For me it has to be the Daiblo

Every reason for this suggestion being a fail is in that picture (mainly the two successors).

Hugh Jarse said:

Ill add this from 1988, if only to beat the RX7 which i reckon is winning (might have been already suggested), but it is on the borderline of "Old cars that were ahead of their time and looked like cars from 10 years later, but look old now."

Not borderline. Absolutely square out the ballpark (with square being the operative word). 10 years is being generous, as by 1998 most cars had curves. There is nothing about that CRX that doesn't say '25 year old car'.

Edited by r11co on Sunday 24th April 13:03

The Sagaris does not look old fashioned in the slightest or hark back to 60s cars etc!

When it came out it looked outrageous, now it looks kinda 'normal' but good! It could be launched today with only very minor changes and still look 'current'

Production stopped 10 years ago.

Its not a car that looked futuristic and now looks dated.

Its not a car that ive picked just because i think it looks nice (although I do)

Admittedly it's nowhere near as old as some of the cars suggested on here, but none of those look 'new' now, whereas the Sagaris still does!

It fully applies to the thread and the only other car which does so far is the Infiniti FX.

[300bhp/ton]