Best cult car from the '70s, '80s and '90s??

[willdew]

Right, which is the "most" cult "main-stream" car from these three decades?

I'll start you off:

'70s - Datsun 240z
'80s - Intergerale Evo I
'90s - GTR Skyline

[dan]

70's - Gotta be a Capri 3.0S (in silver or gold)
80's - Ur Quattro
90's - Escort Cosworth or Scooby

[Dazren]

Wrong question.

The Cult car of the seventies was James Bonds underwater Lotus. I was 9 when I saw the film and my dad drove past and stopped at a garage that had a white one in the showroom. I got a little excited.

DAZ

TV cult cars:

70s Capri in the professionals
80s Magnums Ferrari
90s None. Due to PC bullshit, cars can no longer be portrayed as cool.

DAZ

[richard36]

Magnums 'Gay' Ferrari now think about it, he lived with an older man, who had fierce dog, magnum looked gay and the car was RED

[richard36]

Don Johnson, also a bit gay-boy looking, no socks, another fezz, and BLACK this time er thats it...

[marki]

got to be the Grale in any incarnation

[Farmboy]

70's - Escort RS2000
80's - Escort XR3i
90's - Escort Cosworth

Err... there seems to be a strange pattern here.

[richard36]

Well it cannot be a Ford Capri, regardless of which unfortunate effort it masqeuraded as, Professionals Silver-JPS black and gold, each and everyone of them were horrible cars that handled like cows

>> Edited by richard36 on Friday 23 August 18:49

[dennisthemenace]

quote:
Well it cannot be a Ford Capri, regardless of which unfortunate effort it masqeuraded as, Professionals Silver-JPS black and gold, each and everyone of them were horrible cars that handled like cows

>> Edited by richard36 on Friday 23 August 18:49

I don't care i liked my old capri , yes it didnt handle too well but was still great fun to drive

[craigalsop]

quote:
Well it cannot be a Ford Capri, regardless of which unfortunate effort it masqeuraded as, Professionals Silver-JPS black and gold, each and everyone of them were horrible cars that handled like cows

Did you ever drive any of the "better" ones, rather than the common 1.6 & 2.0 variants that had probably been ragged for 100,000 miles on the same springs/shocks? I always found that they handled fine, and were easy to drive on the limit, with nice progressive powerslides whenever you wanted
They did rather well on circuits at the time too (not that this necessarily proves that much)

cheers,
Craig

[cleg]

mini
mini
mini

[apache]

the last version of the big Capri's were a match for most stuff around then and handled predictably, the Brooklands was the ultimate production Capri and was a tasty car (for it's day and for the money)

[RCA]

The A-Team Van!!!!

[dennisthemenace]

Kitt

[philshort]

The question was which MAINSTREAM car was a cult icon - which kind of rules out Ferraris. Common as muck they may be in the city, but us mere mortals out here in the real world probably never even saw one while growing up.

Anyways, 70s mainstream cult car had to be Cortina 1600E. That was the one all the street wise kids back then aspired to.

[jamesc]

60's - the Mini

70's - Bond Bug

80's - Audi Quattro

90's - Sierra Cosworth

2000 onwards - Lotus Elise

expensive list

60's - Lamborghini Miura

70's - Aston Martin DBS V8

80's - Ferrari 308

90's - Maclaren F1 GTR

2000 and beyond the new Ferrari Enzo

Cult mistakes

60's - Hillman Imp

70's - The BL range of cars

80's - Lancia Beta

90's - The TVR AJP8 engine

2000 - so called retro cars such as the new Mini and the new VW Beetle.

Cult car of the future - SMART car!

James

[mk1]

60's got to be the E-type.
70's how about the Alfasud!
80's Only fools and horses. Nuff said?

[williamp]

Cult car. Hmmmm...

Oh In know.

The William Towns Lagonda.

Looks like nothing else, 5.3 litre V8. Horrendously unreliable electrics, but I have always wanted one...

[richard36]

what was that bond 3 wheeeler orange and black. I knew a guitarist who at the time could go to a gig with his Fender, orange amp, and afhgan coat, and still have room for his blow..Cool!

[anonymous-user]

Bond Bug.