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.

Lancia Stratos.

OK, disclosure time.  I’m slightly biased towards the Stratos, my dad was one of the Lancia mechanics who worked in it during those wet and winter forest stages in the 1970’s.

The road car had stunning presence, a Ferrari engine with a great sound track and the requirement for super human driving skill to avoid spinning off into the nearest tree. Now that is cool.

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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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.

1933 Bentley. 3 1/2

A bit our of left field this one. You need to find the right model.  I suggest you start with the coach built 1933 3 1/2 litre, two door coupe. Designed as a super grand tourer, with the strap line – “the silent sports car”, the car to waft the owner to the South of France at over a 90mph. (With an advertised 9mph top speed that might have been optimistic.

Few cars could touch it, perhaps an Alfa 8C or a Bugatti.  But they were a little bit too raw.  The Bentley said speed with style, especially coming off the back of a rack of Le Mans wins. True Style.

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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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.

Ford Mustang 1965

This is a style issue.  I would understand if American’s replaced a mark 1 Mustang with a C2 Corvette, but for me the fastback version always had that bit more style.

The engine needs to be the V8, but either a small block or big block. Neither handled particularly well, but the noise could be great.

It may have been Steve McQueen smoking tyres in Bullit that did it for me.  The car continues to be cool.

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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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.

BMW M3 Evolution II

Again, an early model gets the vote not the latest V8 turbo charged barge.  The #M3 Evolution II model, featuring Audi Quattro esq flared arches wins gets my vote. 

Such a pleasure to drive, sure, it didn’t stick to every road surface like the Audi, but there was real pleasure to be had taking it to my own meagre limits.  It I were to drive the same way, in the latest version, I would end up running out of road.

An M3 built for the road driver not the race track.

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.

If you want to stay on top of the latest Motor Trade chat either subscribe to this blog or find Guy on Linkedin.

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.

Lotus Elan

The original. Copied by so many since its launch in 1964.  But I’m not looking at the original 1500 model, my eyes are focused on the 1971 final rendition Sprint version.

Still using the original Ford engine this little rocket only produced 125bhp.  But could get to 60mph in around 6.5 seconds.  Mainly due to its meagre weight of 1,500lbs.

Not a car for the American market, where the Corvette of the day (C2) dwarfed it with power and top speed.  But it did weighed twice as much at more than 3,300lbs.  The little Elan was near uncatchable on a twisty road.

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.

If you want to stay on top of the latest Motor Trade chat either subscribe to this blog or find Guy on Linkedin.