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

[Leins]

Ares said:

What out-gunned the M5 by 1985?

Plenty of sporty saloons, but the M5 put a supercar engine in a saloon and a new genre was born, Thema 8.32 being a close follow-on.


Lotus Cortina was 'just' a tuned Cortina, and more about the suspension that implanted supercar engine.

1981, 330hp. Although admittedly slightly rarer, and from a time when there was a greater demarcation between BMW M and Alpina products

Interesting thing about the E28 M5 is that it only came into existence as M-division had some spare line capacity and weren’t happy trying to fit the M88 engine into an E30, so went with the next saloon size up instead

[blearyeyedboy]

Leins said:

1981, 330hp. Although admittedly slightly rarer, and from a time when there was a greater demarcation between BMW M and Alpina products

Interesting thing about the E28 M5 is that it only came into existence as M-division had some spare line capacity and weren’t happy trying to fit the M88 engine into an E30, so went with the next saloon size up instead

Ooh, I really like that. Classic Alpina cars are astonishing things. (And I'm someone who thinks that BMW is overrepresented in this thread!)

[LuS1fer]

The Jaguar Mk II 3.8 had 190hp at the start of the 1960s and had the same engine as the E-Type.

[anonymous-user]

LuS1fer said:

The Jaguar Mk II 3.8 had 190hp at the start of the 1960s and had the same engine as the E-Type.

But not identical, and made less power.

[Pothole]

The Duesenberg I posted above, which is gorgeous and therefore far better looking than almost any BMW, had 320bhp and 120+mph ability in 1932

THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY HORSEPOWER AND FASTER THAN ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY MILES AN HOUR IN NINETEEN THIRTY TWO.

[Ares]

glazbagun said:

The Jaguar MK10 had the engine from the XK150, D & E-type. As did the Mk 2 with different carbs.

Fair enough....

ETA: Were they supercars? Or sports cars?

Either way....that was when Jaguar WAS great....!

[StescoG66]

67Dino said:

I’m just going to keep posting pics of the Aston Martin Lagonda Taraf here until either everyone stops talking about BMWs or someone buys me one.

Love child of a Cadillac STS and the droopy arsed Mec Saloupes that seem to be all over the fking place..........

[T-195]

Stop mucking about.

AMG Hammer.

400hp and a top speed of 190.

[velocemitch]

T-195 said:

Stop mucking about.

AMG Hammer.

400hp and a top speed of 190.

But best looking four door?.. nope not by anybody’s sensible judgement.

[mcelliott]

BrassMan said:

My nomination. Pininfarina were on a roll with their designs for Peugeot around this time.

Edited by BrassMan on Thursday 18th April 11:11

Had an identical one to this, one of the sweetest handling cars I've ever driven. Even the base models were handsome things. Passed one on the motorway driving up from the Alps a couple of weeks ago - they're tiny!

[T-195]

velocemitch said:

But best looking four door?.. nope not by anybody’s sensible judgement.

This has become a thread about fast 4 doors.

This wins.

[AlexC1981]

T-195 said:

velocemitch said:

But best looking four door?.. nope not by anybody’s sensible judgement.

This has become a thread about fast 4 doors.

This wins.

But it's not the prettiest or the fastest. Definitely wins the Top Trumps catagory of being totally bad ass, which is arguably the most important one.

(sorry for the language, I've been watching a lot of American TV lately)

[DoubleD]

T-195 said:

velocemitch said:

But best looking four door?.. nope not by anybody’s sensible judgement.

This has become a thread about fast 4 doors.

This wins.

Not for me it doesnt

[roly79]

Dolly Sprint

[ChocolateFrog]

The correct answer was in the 3rd post, God know what the following 31 pages are all about

[LuS1fer]

ChocolateFrog said:

The correct answer was in the 3rd post, God know what the following 31 pages are all about

Was it the XJ?

[B'stard Child]

LuS1fer said:

ChocolateFrog said:

The correct answer was in the 3rd post, God know what the following 31 pages are all about

Was it the XJ?

E39

He's got a good point

[Mr Tidy]

B'stard Child said:

LuS1fer said:

ChocolateFrog said:

The correct answer was in the 3rd post, God know what the following 31 pages are all about

Was it the XJ?

E39

He's got a good point

Not for me, it was in the 10th post! Just stunning.

[T-195]

[anonymous-user]

LuS1fer said:

The Jaguar Mk II 3.8 had 190hp at the start of the 1960s and had the same engine as the E-Type.

As much as they're an iconic car the look of them still takes you back to the 60's where's the XJ6 can fit in any decade since it's creation. I notice lots of people are posting photos of BMWs and Maseratis(own one myself) but they don't come close to the XJ6, the fact that the XJ6 is not a rare sight and has been prone to rust over the years has no relevance on the the title of this thread