But the Prius is so uuuugly. I’d have had one a long time ago if they didn’t look so awful. But yeah I do agree the Prius is what got a lot of hybrids on the road and reduced fuel consumption by a great deal. 60-68 mpg or what?

Completely agree. Pre-Tesla, this was the public perception of EVs.

Hell if I know. We are only around 1/5th through the century.

When I was apx 18, my fav car I wanted to buy was the Hornet. And the one I was dreaming about was the Javelin AMX.

That’s because the one in that picture was the original prototype, before changes were made for the production car!

Regardless of everyone’s thoughts on Tesla, I think it’d be hard not to say the Model S or Model 3. These two cars changed the way consumers felt about electric cars, and in many ways, even changed the way other manufacturers think about cars.

Yup, it’s the convert-to-electric century, so it’d have to be an EV for most important car of this one. I have to go with the Tesla Model S.

My vote goes to the 2nd gen Prius. It was the first car designed around efficiency that wasn’t a tiny econobox, a crappy electric car, a low-volume experiment, or a niche oddity with low production numbers. It was a reasonably good-looking, reasonably nice and normal car that got the kind of mileage you used to get…

Ugh, as much as I hate to say so with the brand, I’d say the Tesla Roadster. Almost single-handedly made EVs desirable and set us on our current course of electrification (as opposed to the toaster Prius course of electrification that preceded it).

AMC wasn’t different because they wanted to be. They were different because they had to be. They were DOA after they were organized, only to fall into a niche that didn’t previously exist, small cars, just as the excess of the 1950s culminated in the grotesque 1958-59 models from the Big Three. Their continued…

Camry is already a portmanteau of Crown. the name is stupid and the car is pointlessly large with a cramped interior. Okay Boomer/Toyota.

They could have just brought over the “Sport” crossover version and called it a day

I’m sorry, but this is a sedan! there is no rule on planet earth saying that sedans must be 3 inches from the ground. Cars from the 50's and 60's regularly had higher ride heights until over time they dropped closer and closer too the ground with the “lower longer leaner” trend. In order to qualify to be a sedan you…

I think the only miss is that it isn’t a liftback. Otherwise I am on-board even with the SUS.

This is still bothering me

the Estate is the only one of these I’d touch with a ten foot pole.

V60 / V90 are the best looking cars on sale today. Polestar 2 has a weird AMC Eagle proportions to me. 

Molested by cars?

Was there ever a point in time where Volvo didn’t have some of the more nicely designed cars on the road? Even the 80s - 90s era boxes looked good in their own rectilinear way.