Classiest car ever

[Tamworthbay]

Fuck they are ugly, proof if you need it that money doesn’t bring class.

[Pillock]

Orion 1600E.

 

How could it be anything else?

[Ian_Fearn]

Rayton-Fissore Magnum

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Orion 1600E.

How could it be anything else?

Ahem...

[Ian_Fearn]

Ahem...image.jpeg

 

For a good number of years, I really did think this was one of the classiest cars available. 

 

I was a child of course but I WAS STILL RIGHT!

[Pillock]

Take your velour and get out of here. And stick-on bootlid stripes?

 

About as classy as Noel Gallagher in a Burberry mankini.

[Amishtat]

Why try harder?

[hairnet]

Doesn't the same apply to a certain Mr D Brown's engineering company ?

id rather one of his tractors

 

how about

 

 

not what you think and many people will not have heard of it - doesnt shout cha ching either

[Roobarb]

When I was younger, my best friends family were ‘titled’ and lived in a country estate / manor house. The sort of thing with suits of armour in the corridors.

 

I don’t remember what my friends Dad drove, but his Mum drove one of these:

 

and ever since, the Renault 4 has been a paragon of ‘you just don’t have to have a fancy car to be classy’ to me.

 

Super cool (and a death trap at the same time!)

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Old money is not an automatic qualifier for class.  Having, or appearing to have, Old Money does not automatically confer class, though the two are often found together.

 

Class is effortless, stylish, timeless.  While I do agree with the comment made by Barrett, I don't find the vehicle chosen to be particularly classy.  In period, I would, but Aston Martin is now forever coloured by footballers and folks living well beyond their means in an attempt to mimic the world's worst secret agent.  AM has fallen prey to the very same problems as RR and what once were truly classy vehicles are now attracting the sorts of people who have no class whatsoever.

 

I chose the Peugeot partly in jest, partly in all seriousness.  It is a discrete, understated, vehicle to look at.  Most don't actually know what it is, may will dismiss it as 'just another car' and not even as 'just another old car'.  They occupy a space outside of current tastes and fashion and quietly get on with the job of being pleasant to look at and to be in.  Rather like a nicely made suit.  There's nothing ostentatious about them, they have no need to shout about their credentials and even though some were given a diesel engine this doesn't really detract from the whole package enough to make them seem cheaper.

 

This is also why things like the DS, SM, and countless German cars cannot qualify as classy.  Stylish, undoubtedly, but classy certainly not.  British cars very rarely can be seen as classy, they stray too often into the territory of stodge or flash, no matter the intentions of their designers and owners.

 

 

Taking things a step forward, what new car conveys 'class'? Not much outside of Malvern tbh. 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Take your velour and get out of here. And stick-on bootlid stripes?

About as classy as Noel Gallagher in a Burberry mankini.

I think you'll find that even the late great Russel Bulgin agreed with me on this one. ( note the test also includes the only Plah 3 ever made).

 

With thanks to Trigger for putting one of my favourite Giant Tests online.

[egg]

^^

 

One of my all time Car favourites too. 

[Pillock]

Ooof there's a bit of bedtime reading.

 

You're still wrong, like, but still. Looking forward to tucking myself in and reading that.

 

Incidentally, my phone autocorrected that to "touching myself". At this stage I can't rule that out.

[Guest Hooli]

I think you'll find that even the late great Russel Bulgin agreed with me on this one. ( note the test also includes the only Plah 3 ever made)image.jpegimage.jpegimage.jpegimage.jpegimage.jpeg.

 

With thanks to Trigger for putting one of my favourite Giant Tests online.

 

 

 

The Orion is pleasantly quick but can flick into oversteer when pushed

Why did they say that like a bad thing? It was one of the best things about them as it cured* the FWDness.

[HMC]

^A Brilliant Bulgin piece, as ever. Very nicely done.

[STUNO]

The only lord I have known lived in a Scottish castle the family had owned for thousands of years.

And drove a Maxi. That is real class.

[LC Torana]

OK, I was wrong.  Apologies everyone.

 

THIS is the classiest car ever:

 

[Uncle Jimmy]

Driven by Herr Flick no less.

[Yoss]

I think you'll find that even the late great Russel Bulgin agreed with me on this one. ( note the test also includes the only Plah 3 ever made)image.jpegimage.jpegimage.jpegimage.jpegimage.jpeg.

With thanks to Trigger for putting one of my favourite Giant Tests online.

 

Ha ha, that's the first time I've seen an engine described as flaccid. Great piece.

[puddlethumper]

id rather one of his tractors

 

how about

 

 

not what you think and many people will not have heard of it - doesnt shout cha ching either

It's an Ace Aceca isn't it ?

[New POD]

Strong words, Herr Junkman, for what is a gouche slab of 70s fad wrapped in one of the least classy colours ever seen. Pop-up headlights are not classy.

Just who are you? And what makes you think you belong here? Maybe you are inhabited by demons and we need an exorcism to make you right?

[MorrisItalSLX]

I think you'll find that even the late great Russel Bulgin agreed with me on this one. ( note the test also includes the only Plah 3 ever made)image.jpegimage.jpegimage.jpegimage.jpegimage.jpeg.

 

With thanks to Trigger for putting one of my favourite Giant Tests online.

 

Ooo, that's a very late VP 1500 with the series 3 bumpers and late steering wheel! Rare!

[meggersdog]

oh wait, if that's mine then not classy at all.

[New POD]

Strong words, Herr Junkman, for what is a gouche slab of 70s fad wrapped in one of the least classy colours ever seen. Pop-up headlights are not classy.

Just who are you? And what makes you think you belong here? Maybe you are inhabited by demons and we need an exorcism to make you right?

[New POD]

The only lord I have known lived in a Scottish castle the family had owned for thousands of years.

And drove a Maxi. That is real class.

Class with an R

 

Clarse

[Sigmund Fraud]

Taking things a step forward, what new car conveys 'class'? Not much outside of Malvern tbh. 

 

 

Sorry, Reverend, I'll have to disagree with you on this one.

 

With over 70% of Morgan's production now selling abroad, the stereotypical owner is a loud, overweight, middle-aged Jay-Leno-wannabe. Or the German equivalent, who has a mullet and likes to drive their car in the weekends dressed like Biggles. Or a Russian oligarch. All three are the polar opposite of classy.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

 

Sorry, Reverend, I'll have to disagree with you on this one.

 

With over 70% of Morgan's production now selling abroad, the stereotypical owner is a loud, overweight, middle-aged Jay-Leno-wannabe. Or the German equivalent, who has a mullet and likes to drive their car in the weekends dressed like Biggles. Or a Russian oligarch. All three are the polar opposite of classy.

 

Friend of mine owns an Aero 8. He emigrated to Switzerland about a decade ago. Has no intention of ever coming back here. Classy.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

 

Sorry, Reverend, I'll have to disagree with you on this one.

 

With over 70% of Morgan's production now selling abroad, the stereotypical owner is a loud, overweight, middle-aged Jay-Leno-wannabe. Or the German equivalent, who has a mullet and likes to drive their car in the weekends dressed like Biggles. Or a Russian oligarch. All three are the polar opposite of classy.

 

 

Then, as my Gran would have said, we are all fucked.

[barrett]

Morgans are deeply emarrassing, and have never conveyed any type of class whatsoever. They are cars for boorish, overweight men and they have been since about 1950.

 

The general rule is if a car has ever been driven by somebody wearing a baseball cap, they are exempt from this thread

[Sigmund Fraud]

Friend of mine owns an Aero 8. He emigrated to Switzerland about a decade ago. Has no intention of ever coming back here. Classy.

 

Sure. But which of the three (if any) makes him classy ?