100 FAVOURITE CARS - PART I

Over the course of the next ten days, The Good Car Guy will reveal the most subjective prose in the history of GoodCarBadCar.net. Divided into ten separate postings will be The Good Car Guy's 100 Favourite Cars. Current, old, or ancient, these 100 Favourite Cars won't be arranged in order of greatness for two reasons: alphabetizing is easy, decisions are hard.

These are not necessarily the 100 Best Cars - certainly not in my view. They won't be the 100 Most Beautiful or the 100 Most Fun To Drive. These are my 100 Favourite Cars. Each car is pictured and provided with one brief dictum. Will you disagree with The Good Car Guy's choices? I certainly hope so. If you were to heartily agree then we're clearly long lost twins and should really have gotten to know each other already. These cars are displayed in this setting because I love them; not because David E. Davis Jr loves them or because Csaba Csere loves them or because Barack Obama loves them or because they were "voted on by the public". Often times there's no specific reason. With some of my 100 Favourite Cars, the reasoning is almost definitely embarrassing.

But with more than two years of GoodCarBadCar.net under The Good Car Guy's belt, it's past time to make my subjectivities known. Behold, the first ten of my 100 Favourite Cars.

AC SHELBY COBRA: When immense power meets immense curves in a small package, everybody wins.
ACURA INTEGRA GS-R: What Honda blended perfectly in this small front-driver (steering feel, hi-po traction, a modicum of luxury) hasn't been found since.
ALFA ROMEO 147: Aren't hatchbacks supposed to be a lesser species? No detail was executed incorrectly on the 147, except perhaps the 147 GTA's dynamics.
ALFA ROMEO 156 SPORTWAGON: Hidden doorhandles speak volumes about the efforts undertaken by Alfa designers to make this the most beautiful station wagon of all time.
ALFA ROMEO 8C COMPETIZIONE: Alfa prices the 8C in the stratosphere for two reasons: carbon fiber... and the inherent knowledge that the 8C competes for the crown of most beautiful modern car.
ALFA ROMEO GIULIA SPRINT GTA: Simple sporting cars named Sprint which splurge on style are spectacular.
ARIEL ATOM: Though Caterham still sells variations of the Lotus 7, the Atom is the true modern return to bare bones sports cars; with the emphasis on "bare".
ARTEGA GT: While nowhere close to a household name, the GT's hips ensure we'll all remember the name Artega in 25 years.
ASTON MARTIN DB4: The DB4's sense of occassion ranks with that of the Rolls-Royce Phantom. Thankfully the DB4 also has a sense of class.
ASTON MARTIN DB7: In the most intense years of my automotive education, the DB7 was the most beautiful car available to mankind.

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