GT40 only 12th - discuss

[Paul Brameld]

OUCH!!

Pistonheads thinks our beloved car is only a 12 :thumbsdown::thumbsdown::thumbsdown::thumbsdown:

The 100 Greatest Cars Of All Time... - PistonHeads Headlines

Humbug:huh::huh:

 

[Ian Anderson]

Perhaps but where were the others in 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969.

Most did not even exist!
Ian

 

[Jimmy P]

The GT 40 will always be #1 in my/our hearts! As we all know these surveys are always up for arguments, speculation and discussion anyway. Still....fun to review though.

 

[Jack]

Opinions are merely opinions afterall!

 

[Randy V]

Opinions are merely opinions afterall!

Exactly correct.. And as my grand father taught me:
Opinions are like noses.
Everybody has one and some really smell...

 

[Seymour Snerd]

Exactly correct.. And as my grand father taught me:
Opinions are like noses.
Everybody has one and some really smell...

Randy -- did he really teach you that about noses? :lipsrsealed:

As for the original issue: keep in mind that the ranking is for "a vehicle's direct, significant contribution to British automotive culture".

Now, not being British I don't know that I care. But even so, what exactly does "contribution to culture" mean? After all, a sewage outflow "contributes" to the ocean.

So I think my assessment is: "I don't understand what you are measuring but if I did I'm pretty sure I wouldn't care even if I were British."

 

[Mark]

Think yourselves lucky guys, my beloved 330 P4 isn't even on the list! Just shows what some people know!

 

[Kevin L]

I actually think it is pretty cool it is in the top 12

Look at some of the other options
- Mini: Affordable, fun, cheap
- F1: Yeah, I am okay being behind that machine
- 911: Everyone and their mother has one but that is what makes them significant (that and it is a pretty good car). Seems a bit odd that the 911 is more of a generation of a car vs all the rest are much tighter on the model years
- Rest of them: All pretty remarkable cars. I for one don't feel hurt if the 40 is higher or lower, just cool it is represented

Kevin
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[Dalton Veitch]

The ranking in that list is ludicrous. Look at many of the cars; the Mazda MX5 (or Miata) may be great fun and good value and great for racing, but as a car it's about as ordinary and un-innovative as you could get. I've owned some of these cars, and the Mini, while certainly innovative, was an ergonomic disaster (I owned a Mini Cooper S), totally unreliable (boonet flying open, failing to start evry time it rained, cardboard bits falling apart), and a rusty piece of rubbish. And so on. There are outstanding, iconic cars, and the GT40 is right up there with the likes of Ferrari P4's, and the Lambourghini Miura (inspired to an extent by the 40).

 

[Jos]

You do the MX5 a dis-service : it is widely regarded as having restarted the affordable open sports car market when industry opinion in the mid/late eighties was that legislation had all but erased it

 

[Rick Muck- Mark IV]

If the poll is about "impact on culture" I would agree that the '40 is less important than say, a Cortina MK I. In which do you think more virginity was surrendered? Certainly the E Type was "the greatest crumpet collector known to man" and I would wager that more dollies were hooked with a 911 than a McLaren F1 (based on shear numbers alone. If every F1 owner collected two a night they would never equal the gross number of wankers in 911s wearing "Members Only" jackets cruising outside London clubs) It is just a factor of numbers alone.