What’s the best looking 4 door saloon car ever?

[Harveybw]

Competed in saloons championships and was sold as a saloon (sorry if it’s already been mentioned)


And also

[ocrx8]

Bustedmattress said:

Italian for me too. I am biased. Here’s mine in Corsica last year. Seven years in on ownership and still don’t tire of the shape.

Edited by Bustedmattress on Friday 19th April 07:56

These are wonderful looking cars. A real elegance about them.

[cramorra]

It s got to be Italian

Should have made this one instead of rebadging old Chrysler’s........ they might still be around
I like some of their earlier designs too

They made so many important cars...
I’ve owned a few

[AlexC1981]

Always loved these, particularly in yellow. Pictures are from Breadvan72's thread.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[AC43]

akadk said:

Good shout. Love that.

[martin12345]

Massively biased and proud of it

[belleair302]

[Bencolem]

OP nailed it with the E500:



So clean.

[ess]

martin12345 said:

Massively biased and proud of it

I concur

S

[samoht]

I agree with the QP series 5 and Jag XJ Series 1, both very nice.

In four-doors, I'm also quite a fan of the perfect FR proportions and flowing, rounded lines of the Mazda 929:







(All pics shamelessly stolen from the exceptional JapaneseNostalgicCar.com http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/back-roads-hd-mazd...

[sjc]

ericmcn said:

Forget the 10 to a dozen BMWs, it has to be Italian and its not an Alfa

Indeed, in the right colour and wheels,before the facelifts .

[sjc]

A vert good looking car in its day was the Vauxhall Royale. My dad replaced his XJ series 2 with a virtually new one.
Can anyone find a decent pic and post please ( I don’t know how to upload unless it’s on my device already !)
Silver if poss!!

[VCat]

I hate all these BMWs. I’d rather have this:

[Baddie]

belleair302 said:

The e34 was designed by Ercole Spada, who also designed the Aston DB4 GT Zagato... it’s got pedigree in spades, restrained elegant brutal aggression. Personally I like the e38 for its restraint. I once read that if it wasn’t so common the e46 coupe would be considered the best looking car in production (at the time) for being just right.

Also like 70’s-80’s Mercs
Maser QP
70’s-80’s Ford Granada (curvy and square)
Bentley Speed 6 Mulliner
Lexus LS 460
Audi S8
Jaguar Kensington concept
Ferrari Pinin

All the really modern ones have lost elegant restraint.

[Noodle1982]

These type of threads always end up with the same type of posters.

- Those who post a pic of their own car. With the mandatory precursor of 'i may be biased but...'

- Those who post up cars that don't meet the qualifying criteria at all

- Those who post a car that will no way be classified as the 'best looking' but it hasn't yet been posted so they can feel original.

- Those who post a pic and follow it up with 'close/end thread'

[BrabusMog]

Noodle1982 said:

These type of threads always end up with the same type of posters.

- Those who post a pic of their own car. With the mandatory precursor of 'i may be biased but...'

- Those who post up cars that don't meet the qualifying criteria at all

- Those who post a car that will no way be classified as the 'best looking' but it hasn't yet been posted so they can feel original.

- Those who post a pic and follow it up with 'close/end thread'

It's like you've been a member for 146 months, not 46

[LuS1fer]

Noodle1982 said:

These type of threads always end up with the same type of posters.

- Those who post a pic of their own car. With the mandatory precursor of 'i may be biased but...'

- Those who post up cars that don't meet the qualifying criteria at all

- Those who post a car that will no way be classified as the 'best looking' but it hasn't yet been posted so they can feel original.

- Those who post a pic and follow it up with 'close/end thread'

And a post like this

[300bhp/ton]

Harveybw said:

Competed in saloons championships and was sold as a saloon (sorry if it’s already been mentioned)

A saloon, yes. But lacking the 4 door requirement in the bread title

[lordturns]

Love the unloved

[BrabusMog]

sjc said:

A vert good looking car in its day was the Vauxhall Royale. My dad replaced his XJ series 2 with a virtually new one.
Can anyone find a decent pic and post please ( I don’t know how to upload unless it’s on my device already !)
Silver if poss!!

There you go.

E38 Sport for me with M-Parallels.