Pick the 5 most influential cars

[NomisR]

Maybe so, but the 300SL was the first supercar. Unless you insist on supercars being mid-engined, in which case it's the Miura. It is certainly not the Countach, as cool as it is.

But wasn't the Countach the first 200mph road car, or claim to do so anyways..

[MrH]

Early Civic- started the death of the American auto industry.
MK1 GTI- Showed you didn't need a V8 or RWD to build a fun car. Spawned so many spinoffs.
OG Taurus SHO- There were a few cool FWD sedans but this was the first complete conversion of its kind. MAde the Taurus a legitimate road car & IMO spawned the Maxima as we knew it at its peak.
E30 3-series- DURRRRRRRRRRRRR
Audi Quattro- The Northeast would be damn near uninhabitable without 4WD No but seriously it def. made northern winters much easier. I want to say 95% of the luxury cars up here available with 4WD here are sold with it.

*EDIT* I wanted to put the NSX but assumed it had already made the list. To this day I don't think Ferrari has made a car as reliable.

How can you say the Civic started the death of the American auto industry?  It was after the sale of the Civic that the US auto industry still had a hay day with SUV sales and giant profit margins on those things.

[Vinsanity]

How can you say the Civic started the death of the American auto industry?  It was after the sale of the Civic that the US auto industry still had a hay day with SUV sales and giant profit margins on those things.

Maybe he means passenger cars? Even in that case, I blame it more on the J-body

[MrH]

Maybe he means passenger cars? Even in that case, I blame it more on the J-body

It's hard to argue against that.

I think the Cadillac Cimarron was probably the most telling of the downfall of the US auto industry.


Top 5 of the most influential cars: (it's too hard to pick the exact top five.  There's probably 20 cars I deem worthy of this list)

Model T
VW Beetle
Cadillac Cimarron
BMW 2002tii
Toyota Prius