Classiest car ever

[Lanciaman]

May I start this with the Lancia Flaminia PF coupe. Which I guess will be the single post here as it is the answer...

[320touring]

Ahem...

 

Nothing says ' Loaded but a guid cunt' like an Alvis..

 

 

Understated, well balanced, attractive and oh so proper. It'd hold the door open whilst tipping it's hat if it could.

 

Pokey for its day too, so plenty hidden depth

[Tamworthbay]

Had you picked this one.....

I probably would have agreed with you, but as you didn’t I will just leave this here.......

[Lanciaman]

No no no no No!

[Tamworthbay]

You do know this is Autoshite don’t you? A roller will get a passing meh, whereas half the forum is presently dribbling over a tatty Renner 12 van in a barn.

[Richard]

One of these two, I'm not sure which.

 

[Lanciaman]

You do know this is Autoshite don’t you? A roller will get a passing meh, whereas half the forum is presently dribbling over a tatty Renner 12 van in a barn.

I do. And I get it. But this was autoshite 20 years ago. I'm just behind the times...

[DVee8]

[danthecapriman]

Major!

 

Daimler Majestic Major (1961) by Jonathan ☂ James, on Flickr

 

Great looking massive old Brit tin, glorious to be inside of and comes V8 powered. What more could anyone possibly want.

[Guest]

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Die happy in this...

 

 

...just like Albert Camus.

[Tayne]

 

 

 

Winner.

[Cheggers]

Has to be the Facel Vega

[Cardinal Wolseley]

The correct answer to this conundrum is the Wolseley 6/110.

 

[Cheggers]

Die happy in this...

 

 

...just like Albert Camus.

Amazing, not only did we pick the same car but the same pic too!

 

You're clearly a man of taste and distinction

[mercrocker]

Right, clear that lot away, lovely as some (most) of them are.....The gentleman said classiest did he not?   As in Class.  Rhyming with cut glass, like the accent. 

 

There can only be one contender and, therefore, Winner....

 

 

 

 

Note well.... 

 

This is the S2.   V8 engine but not four eyes....  

 

It is, however, the Four Light saloon.   That is "Light" as in "Window, that allows in Light" not Headlamp. 

 

It is not the louche Six Window version with which common riff-raff like that Keith Richards fellow have tampered. 

 

It is most eminently NOT the thing footballers buy with Volkswagen's jack-boot all over it. 

 

It should also not preferably be Burgundy with all the French connotations of that word. 

 

Willow Green please, with verdant leather upholstery of slightly darker shade.  

 

AND BIN THOSE RUDDY WHITEWALLS!

 

Thank you.

[anonymous user]

 

Not sure if classless can also be the classiest, can be driven by anyone, anywhere whilst never looking out of place

[320touring]

Mercrocker and Junkman are the same person?!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

...You're clearly a man of taste and distinction

You're talking to the fella who bought a Citroën CX and has been on a voyage of self-discovery ever since.... #franceprofonde

[mercrocker]

Mercrocker and Junkman are the same person?!

 

No!

 

I think he will, however, be along with some kind of (true) Imperial before long.   However, he will undoubtedly also lambast the white-walls....

[Guest]

Try it the Clarkson way, and think of the classiest woman in the world, and what would she like to be picked up in?

[Richard]

Try it the Clarkson way, and think of the classiest woman in the world, and what would she like to be picked up in?

[phil_lihp]

Classy has to stop short of vulgar, so RR & Bentley have to step out here. 

 

I think the later X300 generation would also fit but a V8's a bit much really, 6 cylinders in a straight line is quite enough thank you.  Past that, I couldn't say.  There is no such thing as a diesel Jaguar, anyway.

 

[Guest Hooli]

Has to be the Facel Vega

 

This is the correct answer & you can pretend to be Sir Stirling Moss.

[Guest Hooli]

I've been on here too much though as I read the title as 'cheapest car ever'.

[DVee8]

Try it the Clarkson way, and think of the classiest woman in the world, and what would she like to be picked up in?

Oh well in that case.Katie Price would like a

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm so so so sorry please forgive me..  It's the rum i tells ya..

[Lacquer Peel]

One of these two, I'm not sure which.

 

Nice Audi Q3 or whatever it is.

[vulgalour]

At least you all tried.  Here's the real answer.

 

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Oooh, I dropped something oozing pure class... Wait... Here it is...

 

[lesapandre]

I'll offer up the Studebaker Avanti...R3's with the supercharger put out a claimed 335bhp.