Thread: Some nice ones in this lot.

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

Coolest cars ever: the people decide


Is it true? Did Enzo say the E-type was the most beautiful car ever made?

Must've, Clarkson said so.

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

Coolest cars ever: the people decide


Is it true? Did Enzo say the E-type was the most beautiful car ever made?

At the Geneva Motor Show when it was launched apparently. Never found definitive proof but we still used it on the back cover of the official 50th anniversary book

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Must've, Clarkson said so.

Some nice cars in that lot, though.
Did I miss it or was the P38 not there? It should have been.
And the Vauxhall Lotus Carlton looks like a VR Commodore. The VR Commodore should have been in that list.

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

Is it true? Did Enzo say the E-type was the most beautiful car ever made?

Yes, but he died before the Commodore was released...

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

And the Vauxhall Lotus Carlton looks like a VR Commodore. The VR Commodore should have been in that list.

More like the VR Commodore is a copy of the Vauxhall Carlton - like all Dunnydore - Opal clones.

And I've got three of them! The td5 Defender and two mini's, 1968 and 1972

Originally Posted by garrycol

More like the VR Commodore is a copy of the Vauxhall Carlton - like all Dunnydore - Opal clones.

Actually, initial and earlier Commodores were re-engineered for Australian conditions and fitted with Australian engines. By the forth generation, Commodores were completely Australian designed. Commodores were ultimately exported to UK, badged as Vauxhalls.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Actually, initial and earlier Commodores were re-engineered for Australian conditions and fitted with Australian engines.

By "re-engineered", you mean all the good bits were taken out. The Opel Rekord that the VB was based on had IRS. Holden didn't add that little piece of sophistication until the VP, and then only in the high end models, notwithstanding that the system they used was the exact same IRS, only 13 years later.

As as for Australian engines, yuck, apart from the V8s. The only decent six they fitted came from Nissan, and Holden even ballsed that up.