Over the years there has been some great automotive styling and some awful automotive styling. Some cars have been beautiful, some ugly.

Which popularly priced cars do you think were the most beautiful and which the ugliest. Please don't include exotics (like Ferrari, etc.). I want your opinion to be based on cars that anybody could afford. Also, please don't include the S. We all know that it is the most beautiful car ever produced, but I want to hear about the others.

Feel free to post pictures to support your opinion.

 

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I don't think you have to exclude exotics; in my opinion exotics often look idiosyncratic, but rarely beautiful. Some might be in the running for ugliest, though.

 

Not sure if this meets the criteria - it may be too highly priced, but I would vote for the NSX. 13 yr. old design but still looks great imo...

 

Good choice, Marco.

I think the Fiat Spider was a classically beautiful car. I'm not sure if the Mazda Miata was; I never felt that way about it.

 

I purposely excluded exotics because I didn't want this discussion to evolve into a discussion of which Ferrari (for example) is/was the most beautiful. I'm more interested in the cars that everyday people could and would buy. I think that there has been some great and some awful stylng available to all of us, and those are the cars that I'm interested in.

 

Along with the Spyder, I have also always loved the X1/9....I know - it was the classic Fix It Again Tony....

 

The only car my wife went ga ga over the first time she saw it was the Lexus SC 400.

 

I really liked my generation of Prelude when I first saw it... 1988. Still looks good to me today.

 

1980 Scirocco S
Alfa Romeo Spyder
2005 Saturn Sky (I like!)
Porsche 356


I've got more...

 

Cutest damn car ever made for the very least money; the Bugeye Sprite. A perfect example of how character need not be limited by finance.