Yep 250GT Lusso is up there. Some other lookers I'd suggest SM, current Quattroporte, Alfa Junior, DB4GT, Ford Synergy 2025, Toyota 2000GT and XJ220.

For me it has to be the Ferrari 599 GTB.

Asthetix:

It is a Ferrari 250 GT SWB - amazing car

I have changed it to an F40 though, for now

This thread's been up for about 3 months and I still can't think of a 'recent' design that has a significant effect on me. Probably the most recent design that got me was the DB7, the 3.2, not the pouting V12. More recent Astons leave me slightly cold, I get the impression that they've tried too hard to make them 'cool'.

1st Generation TT? refreshing, contemporary but the early aerodynamic boo-boos let the design down. As Audi said themselves 'Form equals Function' but that form didn't function too well going into corners with gusto.

Designs I admire? Cheers JD for reminding me that Japan produced 2 cars in my garage of fame. Pub fact: The 2000GT was produced only as a hard-top although a drop-top was made for 007's snatch in You Only Live Twice. The other far east muse? Series 3 RX-7, without Veilside scaffolding and neons.

Italian Cars. '67 Lancia Fulvia (and the current crop of Lancias are tidy, get them back in the UK), '64 Ferrari 250 LM and 456 GT, Bangle's Fiat Coupe, '97 Alfa GTV V6 for both the body and the engine, oh, and the 164.

American; Stingray; If you're gonna go over the top...

German. 635 CSI; You think modern cars look too aggressive?
Audi 80 Cabrio. Timeless. And no, I'm not. The quattro spyder concept around 1992(?) was sleek.

English. Mentioned DB7, '64 DB4 GTZ, Towns' '76 Lagonda, Mini (1959, not the 'I'm a 25 year old girl who does lunch at starbucks and has a job title like "team leader" and buys 150 pairs of shoes a week and wants to marry a foolballer and become fay-mouse' trinket), Lotus Elan mk1, TVR Griffith, Riley Pathfinder; therefore the Rover 75. And no, I'm not that either.

Shall I go on? No? I'll get me coat.

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oh, and the 164

Mine is still awaiting the welding torch if you want a bargain piece of Italian carrion in a sharp black Pinin suit. I cant help myself when it comes to shapely pieces of autocrap; although the Monza is gone its definitely not forgotten and my 480 ES is a barrel of laughs on its crap old tyres. The boss' DB7s and F430's are all very well, but the only car I go and perv at every day is the NSX; coolest car on the planet?
Think I might just save for a well-cared-for 164 Q4 and be done with it. (although my boy Johnny B's new Focus ST in ****-off orange has reinvigorated my blue-oval interest.)

My current love is a Beemer 3-series and a Merc SLK AMG (Safety Car in F1)

gallardo is very good looking sportcar~~
and amazing~~
and here's a TV about it
check it:
http://www.atp153.com/gallardo/gallardo-spyder_black.asf