Cool Material:
Who wouldn’t want to own a car that turns more heads than a bikini car wash? Maybe these guys have only driven used jalopies and don’t know anything else. Well, these are the cars they should know. These are the 15 Classic Cars That Define Cool.
There’s no doubt I’d give up body parts to own about half of the cars on this list (that 1969 Ferrari Dino 246 GT is sex on wheels) but it’s odd there are none from after 1970. Were there no “cool” cars made after 1970 (leaving aside the definition of “classic” car?
I’d add 3 cars from 3 different decades, just off the top of my head:
1. BMW M1 (1978-1981)
2. McLaren F1 (1992-1999)
3. Porsche Carrera GT (2004-2007)
First generation Mazda Miata. I’m still driving mine and people still turn and look.
First generation Honda/Acura NSX. I’m not sure the design has aged quite as well as the Miata, but it captured the 1990’s for me.
I have a soft spot for the Audi GT. Not a car for the ages, but it managed to look much faster than every other hatchback on the market. Still not sure how they did that.
Finally, an orange Volkswagon Thing. Because Thing.
No love for the DeLorean? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeLorean_DMC-12
I was surprised, even though I’m not a fan, to not see any porches on this list. You’d think that when it comes to “cool”, at least one Porsche would have made it.
LOL Sorry but I don’t think you can call the Miata or the Thing “cool”. Don’t get me wrong, the Miata is/was a great car but…..cool? 🙂
And the Thing was never cool. 🙂
The NSX was definitely cool if, as you say, now dated.
The Volkswagon Thing goes out to negative infinity and wraps around. It is like choosing “Tammy” as your goth name.
The Miata is “engineer cool”. Looks great, never breaks, and anybody can fix it. While that Dino is in the shop, the Miata is on the road.
Nerds loved it, hence not enough cool factor.
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The OPEC oil embargo of 1972-1973 at least partially explains the lack of “cool cars” in that decade.
Yeah, but the 240Z made the list. Over every Porsche? They were as common as dirt. A classic 911 definitely strikes me as cooler than a 240Z.
And 69 Camaro; Boss Mustang are more badass than cool. I’d substitute a ’67 Camaro and 1st-gen Mustang fastback. Cool then, still cool now.
The rest are hard to argue with.
Honorable mentions for anything driven by Sean Connery or Steve McQueen in a movie; or Steve McQueen in real life. Bonus points if in a chase scene.
I think “engineer cool” is pretty much the definition of “not cool.” I had a Miata. Fun car, but even on the best minute of its best day it was not what I think of as cool.
Exactly.
Supercar = I need a car that makes up for my insecurities. “Douchemobile,” as you say.
Cool = I have taste, but I don’t have anything to prove.
The 356 is distinctive and “classic” in his usage. I’d rather have it than most of the list…
Well, it’s cheap clickbait, and I suspect he’s using “Classic” to mean “1970 or earlier”, thus the cutoff.
(“Cool” is inherently subjective; I mostly hate muscle cars and swoopy impractical ghastly sports cars [on that list, I only really, really like the E Type].
I’d have added the Ferrari Superamerica, myself, and the Porsche 356.
And the BMW 2002.)
I like lots of cars from the 70s-on era, but nobody else on Earth thinks a Volvo 164 is cool; I’m okay with that; I mean, I’d also love to have a restored 2CV and a Citroen DS. I like weird, weird cars.
For 1971, the 280SL, which at least someone else probably thinks is a cool car.