World's Most Beautiful Autos named
As part of the 22nd Annual International Automobile Festival, a team of judges has chosen its Most Beautiful Automobiles of the World for 2007, and no, the U.S. did not come home with a trunk of gold medals in this competition. We Americans will just have to be content with our two silvers.
On the other hand, many of the pageant-winning cars can actually be found on these shores.
List of winners after the jump.
Correction: Looks like I got my international "Most Beautiful Automobiles of the World" contests mixed up. The cars listed on the jump were chosen at the 14th Annual "L'Automobile più Bella del Mondo" competition, Oct. 27th in Milan, Italy. The Annual International Automobile Festival is in France in January when their choice for most beautiful is announced. So it looks like I need someone to translate French and Italian for me cause Google ain't gettin' it. I'm chalking the Scania truck mixup to translation as well. Mulligan?
[Source: Virtual Car via Carbody Design]
City cars and compact cars
Mini Cooper
Second Place: Daihatsu Trevis
Mid-size hatchback
Volvo C30
Second Place: Nissan Note
Mid-size sedans
Volvo S80
Second Place: Chevrolet Epica
Limousine
Bentley Continental GTC
Second Place: Bentley Azure
Coupe
Mercedes CL
Second Place (Tie)
BMW 3 Series Coupe
Jaguar XKR Coupe
Maserati GranSport MC Victory
Coupe-cabriolet
Volkswagen Eos
Second Place: Jaguar XKR convertible
Spider
Alfa Romeo Spider
Second Place: None
Sportscar
Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano
Second Place: Porsche Cayman
Station wagon
Alfa Romeo 159 Sportwagon
Second Place: Skoda Roomster
MPV
Citroën C4 Picasso
Second Place: Ford Galaxy
Crossover
Audi Q7
Second Place: Mercedes GL
Special series
Studiotorino RK Coupé
Concept car
Renault Twingo Concept
And so you can argue the merits of the competition's judges, here they are:
Kenneth Noland, American artist
Heinz Mack, German artist
Vittorio Matino, Italian artist
Mario Bellini, Italian architect
Massimo Vignelli, Italian architect
Fiorucci Helium, fashion designer
Carl Rivetti, fashion designer
Tawny Sacco, car designer
Lorenzo Ramaciotti, car designer
Enrico Leonardo Fagone, car designer
Alexander Giudice. car designer
Antoine Prunet, author
- Bentley offers up Diamond edition of Arnage, Continental GT Bentley's Crewe factory has been hand-assembling its cars for 60 years, and the automaker wants to celebrate the anniversary. The company is launching two special edition Bentleys at Geneva later this ...
- We're headed out to the 2006 Chicago Auto Show... anyone need anything? We, your humble Autoblog emissaries have our bags packed, laptops charged and camera lenses de-fingerprinted. In short, we're fixin' to descend on the City of Big Shoulders via planes, trains and auto ...
- Bentley chief - Continental "exceeded our wildest expectations" According to Bentley North American CEO Andrew Stuart, sales of the Bentley Continental GT have far exceeded the original goal of 1,400 units in NA last year, with 2,300 finding their way into lucky h ...
- Rolls Royce OKs convertible design, wants cheaper model When Rolls Royce looked at the new Bentley Continental Flying Spur and its $165,950 price, the wheels started turning. The $170,000 price tag is hardly cheap, but almost half the price of the Rolls Ph ...
- Spyker C8 headed stateside Over-monied US car collectors/speed freaks have reason to rejoice. Dutch manufacturer Spyker has announced that its Audi-powered C8 short-wheelbase sports car has received US type approval, pavin ...
- A 604 hp Mercedes sedan, does anyone care? Seriously, this is getting old. German automaker puts big engine in sedan, it goes fast, costs lots of money. Great formula. But for some reason we like the BMW M series and the Audi S and RS lines bu ...
- Show me the exotics I know a lot of you think I'm anti-exotics. That is not the case. I just feel that there are so many more attainable cars coming out these days that offer amazing performance and style for the everyma ...
- Bentley Continental Flying Spur spied Auto Express has two spy images of the new four-door prototype of the Bentley Continental to be called the Flying Spur. Awesome name. Images are a bit blurry and sport the big Auto Express logo but ar ...
- This is the fireplace where I burn my money Let's say you just bought a Maybach 57. Granted, it's the short one, and TRU BALLER$ only roll in 62s, so you need to do something to distinguish yourself. Do you call X to the Z? No— you ring u ...
- Automobile Magazine salivates all over 2005 Acura RL Fortunately the test car was equipped with drool-proof paint sealer, an option no one ever thinks they need until it's too late. Automobile's founder David E. Davis, Jr. heaps praise on the RL's Super ...
0 Responses to » World's Most Beautiful Autos named
Leave your response!