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10 Most Beautiful Cars in the World
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10 Most Beautiful Cars in the World

So I was thumbing through my latest issue of Road & Track magazine. The cover article was "the Ten Most Beautiful Cars in the World" with a picture of the new Ford GT which will compete at LeMans next year. When I get to the article, there is another picture of the GT. Then I flip the page. At the top is the Jaguar F type R. Nobody can argue about that choice. Guess what I saw below that picture? You're right; the Range Rover Evoque. Our car! On a list that includes the Ford GT, the Bentley Speed Eight LeMans Prototype, the Porsche 918 Spyder, Ferrari P4/5 Competizione, the Alpha Romeo 8 C Competizione, amid others which are debatable (cough cough Cadillac station wagon cough cough). I would imagine that our car is the "least costly" among such fellow beautiful cars. Check it out in the September issue of Road & Track.

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benzina
 

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RE: 10 Most Beautiful Cars in the World

Well i for one am not surprised by that.....when judged, the Evoque was, is, and always will be a killer design in every aspect.

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Evoque has always been able to hold it's own with even the most exalted company. I saw this lot parked outside the Dorchester Hotel on Park Lane in London a couple of years ago. All the cars belonged to the Saudi Royal Family.
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I'd agree with that too.
Had an interesting talk the other day about masculine / feminine form in design. I mentioned that the Evoque has been labelled as 'pretty', but they argued that from a design point, it is perhaps more masculine by western concepts of gender and gender stereotypes. As an example, they compared it to the Porche Mecan. The Mecan has more softly rounded, curvacious and argaubly volumtuous lines- the feminine. By contrast, the Evoque has sharper, chisseled design features and sits wide invoking a more 'broad-shouldered' stance, - the masculine rather than the feminine form. They had lots of other examples and was really quite interesting thinking about why manufactures make decisions about designs of new models in this regard. And how sometimes they can get it so wrong (e.g. Bugatti Veyron - but that's just my opinion).
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markdartj
 

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Clip, that's interesting. I've always thought the RRE tends to be more on the masculine side, although around here, most men are buying them for their wives to drive; whilst they prefer big old macho pick up trucks. Regarding the choices in the magazine, I felt the inclusion of the Cadillac kind of "fouled the patch" a bit. Of course, different tastes for different folk, and all that....

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benzina
 

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You see, the thing is these days, woman actually want something that looks masculine and macho, and that is why they are attracted to owning & driving it. There is no two ways about it, the Evoque is a masculine designed car.

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They also highlighted some of the more obvious designs that either consciously or unconsciously get their design cues from female anatomy e.g. the front grill design on Alfa Romeos, the Bugatti and others, all of which are reminiscent of the original Subaru Tribecca - and I think we all remember what they were nick-named. Are most people, or most men, or most women, or particular groups of people from particular demographics more drawn to representations such as this? If so, why? I'm sure at the end of the day it all comes down to one thing - I'm pretty sure Freud would be able to explain it.
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