A combination of style, ‘coolness’, driving pleasure and sheer personal preference. If you have a better list or just one model you want to add the list, let me know.

The top four cars are pretty much inter-changeable all of them could have got first place. It would depend upon the day, the journey I had to make and . . . . . a poster on a 1970’s bedroom wall.

Lamborghini LP500 Countach.

The doors, the performance, the look.  Ok, the real reason is the look. Style, complete with a 70s model crawling all over it.

I’m not precious. It doesn’t have to be an early model, the LP400 or the periscope rear view mirror model. But similarly it certainly cant be a LP5000QV or one of the last Anniversary models with more plastic bolt on’s than a lego kit.

The LP500 had it all. The technical advantage – it put the gearbox in front of the engine, right next to your elbow, so the gear change was as good as could be. This did mean that the drive shaft – that went to the rear driven wheels – had to go through a specially made tube built into the bottom of the engine sump. Italians eh.

Oh, and a v12 full bore engine screaming away behind you all the way to the 7,800rpm red line. Power is a little bit vague, depending upon who you ask its between 375bhp and 440bhp.

I remember being told at the time that the mere name of the car, ‘Countach’ means a slightly stronger version of ‘Bloody hell’, in Italian. I have no idea if that is true, to be honest I prefer not knowing for sure.

As an avid 70’s tv movie watcher – and later the video – the opening soundtrack of the Cannonball run made the Countach so cool.  Plus the fact you had to had climb out o the car if you wanted to reverse it.

I would say -‘Why don’t we make cars like this any more?’, but we do. Lots of them, all the hyper cars. The trouble is that they don’t stand out like the Countach did. Just like the E-type Jaguar in the early 1960’s, this was a car that made you say ‘WOW’.

The list is the personal preference of our Director, Guy Winter. A car fanatic since the 1960’s, he eats’, sleeps and dreams everything Motor Trade. For the past 25 years he has worked for Cymark providing digital and telephone marketing support for individual retailers, groups and manufacturers alike.

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