The best looking touring car thread

At jimjam’s request.

I always felt the europeans did it better than the BTCC, but this is my UK choice-

Otherwise-

I had a toy one of these and thought it was amazing. Younger me couldn’t understand why it wasn’t racing in the BTCC

I still fancy one of these.

I think the Swedish are doing pretty well at the moment:

They have much to make up for…

I loved seeing these being raced. Ok, not the best looking but still entertaining.

ooh, and My brother’s Alfa GTA 1600 (currently in Stradale guise but he’s got a roll cage ready to go in);

Skirts are too low for me to consider serious touring, which often finds me driving up verges, over rough camp sites etc.

Anything from the 90s btcc… game of TOCA anyone?

Have a huge soft spot for these ugly brutes.

DTM version was a bit of a brute too.

I’ve always had a soft spot for the old M3…

Edit … someone beat meto it … but have another look anyway

The 155s were my favourite too.

DTM Vectra.

Ask the Griswalds

wwaswas – stunning GTA, possibly shared a track with your brother at some point if he’s a regular at the Alfaholics days.

Whilst we’re linking to things on Max’s site I love the ti Supers…

The Volvos were amazing, I especially liked the way they’d spin like a top whenever tapped by some crazy Scotsman in a vauxhall.

The RS500 gets bonus points because I had a matchbox car of it

If you’re going for a Jag, this broadspeed takes some beating.

I enjoyed the BTCC Soper, Clelland, Hoy, Harvey days when the cars looked almost like they’d brung & run! But the DTM cars looked awesome!

Of the current crop, this is bloomin’ lovely!

All of the nineties ones were awesumz in my eyes (well bar the Xedos 6 that is)

I had one of these pinned up on my wall in the late ’90’s

Being a Renault fan it’s the MK1 lagunas that I always had a soft spot for.

I have to say I do like all the 90s ones with the excwption of the green and gold Peugeot 406. They made up for it with this though-

Haven’t been too taken with the current lot of hatchbacks but these are cool-

And the European stuff cooler again

That FINA BMW is when BMW really started going downhill for me, culminating in this horrible thing.

Loved those volvos. They turned up at donnington with a dog in the back for the parade lap.
Had a 155 one of those cars that you regret selling.

[/url]
image[/url] by Parkesiemtb[/url], on Flickr

Daniel La Rosa’s orange Merc.

@jools182 I had that flying CSL as my desktop wallpaper for years. Great picture.

I’ll go for this as anything else will be a repost. The mi to late 90’s Super Touring era was bloody brilliant.

156 in Supertouring spec:

And Super 2000/WTCC spec:

Zakspeed Escort

Always my go to car in TOCA Racing on PS1

Came into thread to post volvo estates on 2 wheels. Sees loads of other people have already done it. Does it anyway

Had a soft spot for the Cavaliers though. OK so they were a bit anonymous but they looked mean once you put a few dents in them, which was just as really considering who was driving ’em.