This Is Not The Most Beautiful Cars Of All Times. Not By A Long Shot

by Bertel Schmitt

Published: February 28th, 2012

this is not the most beautiful cars of all times not by a long shot

After a lot of soul-searching, googling, and a good dose of arbitrary decisions, Edmunds published the list of the 100 Most Beautiful Cars of All Times, something that should bring traffic to the Edmunds site for years to come.

Interestingly, one of the most expensive cars of all times, the Bugatti Veyron, landed on rank 100. Which is the Edmunds way of saying that it is butt-ugly. The Volkswagen CC, a Pontiac Grand Am, even a Chrysler Town & Country are considered prettier.

While Volkswagen is devastated by the verdict, which cars are the absolute rulers in Edmunds’ beauty pageant?

The absolute ruler of the list, the most beautiful of the most beautiful, is the 1974 Lamborghini Countach LP400. The car that was launched when the first Golf was launched shares its hard creases. Solace for snubbed Volkswagen: Lamborghini belongs to Wolfsburg now.

The second-most beautiful car according to Edmunds is the 1931 Duesenberg Model J Long Wheelbase Coupe. Too bad they don’t make it anymore. Wait! Don’t mention that to the Chinese!

Third on the podium: 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO. If I’d be into car porn, that’s the car I would use for … going to the bathroom.

The full list can be found here.

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Bertel Schmitt

Bertel Schmitt comes back to journalism after taking a 35 year break in advertising and marketing. He ran and owned advertising agencies in Duesseldorf, Germany, and New York City. Volkswagen A.G. was Bertel's most important corporate account. Schmitt's advertising and marketing career touched many corners of the industry with a special focus on automotive products and services. Since 2004, he lives in Japan and China with his wife <a href="http://www.tomokoandbertel.com"> Tomoko </a>. Bertel Schmitt is a founding board member of the <a href="http://www.offshoresuperseries.com"> Offshore Super Series </a>, an American offshore powerboat racing organization. He is co-owner of the racing team Typhoon.

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Nickoo on Feb 29, 2012

Glad to see the 3rd gen F-body on that last, I owned an 89. The 1992 25th anniversary package with the high spoiler was the best looking though, not the 1985 Iroc. 1992 camaro was the best looking camaro of all time, I don't know what they were smoking at GM when they designed the new camaro's interior/gunslit windows/fake vents...I would buy a an 89-92 with an LS conversion and upgraded suspension anytime over the current monstrosity . On unrelated notes, the idea that the F40 is only number 63 is laughable and I see a distinct lack of '31 imperials, 88' supras, and acura NSXes

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Fabriced28 on Feb 29, 2012

That was a stupid list. Went through briefly, found it to be overly americanized, and quite randomly at that. Only one Cord, at #72?? Missing the Corvair as mentioned by someone here?? WTH? And I won't even begin with the missing European and Japanese cars, because this guy does not know anything about car design.

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