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Car of all time? It's a tie!
The Ferrari 365 cars (GTB and the VERY rare GTS) are the ultimate front-engine rear drive performance car. The beautiful curves can bee seen in most every sports car since, from things like all the Nissan cars to Panoz to the latest 'Vette. (Check the fender curve on the C6...) It looks powerful without having any wings/spoilers/doo-dads many cars have been adorned with. Even without technology, the design is stable at 180mph.
The Jaguar E-Type drop-head-coupe is right with the Ferrari. It's lines are simply stunning, especially in Series I/II forms without the heavy bumpers the V-12 got shorn with.
And the last car in this third place tie is the 1955-57 300SL "Gull-wing" coupe. It changed automobile thinking for decades and introduced Mercedes as a maker to be reckoned with beyond luxury cars and racing machines. A racer for the street. It had so many innovations from it's FI engine to body config it was a tour-de-force. Like the Ferrari it was light years ahead of it's time and created with pen and paper, no Pentiums in sight. Human brains, baby...
Today?
I agree that the Ford GT is incredible. It's a daring design that looks like the original, but incorporates many modern elements without losing the muscular race-car tone of the '60's race cars. The car looks exotic (it is), brutally fast (it is) and highly expensive (it is).
I would like to have said the Mercedes SLR, but it just seems a little too-over-the-top for me to put it ahead of the smoother Ford GT. Second place, this time.
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