What was the classiest year for cars?

"traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn" (el-peasant) 06/22/2015 at 08:06 • Filed to: None

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Bit of a tough question to explain here. Take the year that had the cars with the most class/style/prestige/whatever else. It’s either:

-Find the classiest car and choose the year that it’s in: if you want simplicity, go for this one. So, you could choose the Aston Martin DB5, and your year would default to between 1963-1965. If you chose the Duesenberg Model J, your years would be 1928-1937.

-Choose each year and find the high-end cars of that time. Quantity and quality matters here. For instance, you could choose Year A because it includes Super-Classy car A, Super-Classy car B, and Super-Classy car C.

-Make a top # list of the classiest cars ever made, and find the year/general era that most of the cars are from. For instance, your list could be ranked 1928, 1937, 1965, 1933, 2012, 1934, 1926, 1925, 1963, 1985, 2005, Then, your era would be late 20s-early 30s.

Keep in mind that expensive =/= class. Take the Veneno Roadster, for example. It’s $3.4 million, but would get a few nasty stares if someone took it to the Secret Garden Party. But a ‘72 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow would come right in.

Class: n. Showing stylish excellence

I’m expecting the answers to be from the rather large era from 1925-1942, and 1946-1973.

Please excuse this rather long and pointless topic, I’ve got nothing to do other than an AP US history packet, which I will probably do some serious procrastination on.

djmt1 > traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn 06/22/2015 at 08:16

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1966. Speaking of:

GhostZ > traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn 06/22/2015 at 08:20

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I’m just going to stop for a second and hope that you guys can appreciate a bit of an unconventional answer, but I think the mid-late 2000s were an extremly classy year range for cars, specifically 2008. A bit... boring, yes, but classy nonetheless. It was the height of pre recession vehicles without rollover protection reform that came in 2009 and required automakers to heavily revamp and compromise their design.

Even Lambo was showing classical restraint for beauty back then.

It was also the year that introduced the new CTS and CTS-V, and I think the moment when cadillac’s turnaround started to finally climb rather than just supporting itself.

DoYouEvenShift > traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn 06/22/2015 at 08:22

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You know those fancy ass Duesenbergs Jay Leno and everybody is always after? That era.

Rainbow > traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn 06/22/2015 at 08:25

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1936, for this one specifically:

I’m not the biggest fan of classic cars, but a ‘36 500K with the “swoopy” rear end is easily one of my dream cars.

misfitmascots > traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn 06/22/2015 at 09:01

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1938 For me.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > misfitmascots 06/22/2015 at 09:28

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‘38 was pretty dang classy even for the plebs.

ptak appreciates old racecars > traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn 06/22/2015 at 14:13

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I lust after 1910s race cars more than anything else, but I can’t say anything else but late ‘20s to late ‘50s luxury cars here. Packard, Duesenberg, Hupmobile, Cadillac, Imperial, Peerless, Lincoln, LaSalle, Pierce-Arrow... with the giant whitewalls and bullet headlights and the Art Deco... HHNNGG...

Jedidiah > traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn 06/24/2015 at 02:30

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I can’t answer this definitively.

My answer is all time.

Cars are awesome all of the time.