These Are Your Favorite German Cars

Mercedes-Benz

The first car ever made was German — nan 1885 Benz Patent-Motorwagen — and successful nan consequent 140 years German companies person made innumerable unthinkable cars. Earlier this week I asked our readers to show maine astir their favourite German cars, and y'all delivered. My prime was nan Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR, 1 of nan coolest and best-looking supercars ever made that was calved from homologation requirements successful the FIA GT1 class. It was besides featured successful "Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2," 1 of my favourite racing games of each time.

A fewer of you besides said you would've picked the CLK GTR, because you person taste. But location were each sorts of bully answers here, representing a wide assortment of years, brands, assemblage styles and value points. As accustomed I picked my favourite answers of nan bunch, truthful don't beryllium huffy that nan Carrera GT isn't connected here. Keep reference to spot what German cars nan Jalopnik assemblage picked arsenic their favorites, and if you missed retired connected nan first question, you tin show maine your favorites successful nan comments too.

This is really hard.... The 2 I person driven and person a fondness for are nan CLK63 AMG Black Series, and nan 190e 2.3-16v Cosworth.

The CLK63 is conscionable truthful cool. Big, wide, purposeful, a large engine, and it wants to termination you if you return nan traction power off. It is simply a monster and conscionable thing you could not get distant pinch building today. With each of that, it is truthful nether nan radar that unless you know, it conscionable kinda looks for illustration immoderate mid-2000s Mercedes you can't fig retired what's going connected pinch it. It is connected my database to ain sooner than later.

Polar other if nan 190e 2.3-16v. Yeah, it is not nan 2.5 nan euro marketplace got, aliases moreover nan Evo that is conscionable a car I for illustration to look astatine successful nan acheronian erstwhile nary 1 is watching, but that we sewage nan 2.3 astatine each is beautiful cool. Light, nimble, a awesome homologation typical pinch a really cool communicative arsenic well. The car isn't a torque monster but loves to unrecorded supra 3k rpm and will cruise astatine 100mph each time without immoderate complaints. Owned one, loved it, and want it back.

I'm going to person to spell pinch nan 190 E Evo2. Leave it to Mercedes to make a Mitsubishi Evo for nan executive business class. It's a honorable boy racer, and I miss erstwhile Mercedes did this benignant of stuff. The modern cars are accelerated and transportation immoderate of nan quirkiness, but not rather arsenic typical arsenic immoderate of these erstwhile successful a life builds.

So galore things I could take from, bargain my bosom says it's nan 16v Mercedes-Benz 190 E. Evo II is nan dream-car spec, but I'd moreover return nan normal accumulation 2.3 aliases 2.5. Classy, comfy, useable, charismatic go-fast sedan.

Submitted by: Andrew William, Agon Targeryan, Frosteeman

The Evo II is evidently nan eventual 190E, but they're each fantastic.

Rather than posting a favourite Porsche, will station a off-beat German car.... a Borgward Isabella.

Submitted by: Not Me

Borgwards person immoderate really fantabulous creation flourishes, and awesome names too.

This is really easy. But that's mostly because my database of favourite cars of each clip would possibly person 2 aliases 3 Germans. The 1 I for illustration nan astir is by acold nan BMW Z8. To my eyes, it's nan astir beautiful car BMW has ever produced. As a homage car, they did an astonishing occupation of capturing what made nan 507 cool and improved it successful astir each way. It's a roadster pinch nan E39 M5 V8 nether hood and cleanable proportions. What's not to like?

Submitted by: dolsh

I was conscionable driving down 1 of these past night! Truly 1 of nan astir beautiful cars of each time.

Probably nan Mercedes 300SL Gullwing. I don't attraction astir its capacity aliases immoderate of that. It's conscionable axenic art, and I opportunity that arsenic personification who really doesn't attraction overmuch for Mercedes.

I really sewage to beryllium successful 1 astir 10 years agone astatine a Concours d'Elegance. Probably nan astir costly spot I've ever put my ass.

This gets my vote. It's a beautiful car each connected its own, and it's arguably nan only car that did gullwing doors right.

Don't apologize for its performance! It was nan fastest accumulation car successful nan world erstwhile it debuted: 155mph successful 1954. Oh, and there's nan "pure art" point you mentioned. I couldn't work together more!

Submitted by: Funky Dynamite, Bossrday, Ted Buras

While I haven't driven a Gullwing I person driven a 300SL roadster, and I'm happy to study that it was moreover much unthinkable than you'd hope. 

Audi 5000 Quattro pinch a manual transmission. Damn I wish I hadn't person sold mine.

84 Audi 5000 Wagon. Had 1 for my first car. It was gorgeous to look at. It was a complete nightmare erstwhile it came to getting fixed. However, it was my first car and that conscionable makes nan memories of it moreover better....

Submitted by: Mike Beranek, OldGuy55

Maybe my favourite era of Audi design.

2004 VW .:R32. Attainable, attractive, acoustically astonishing, AWD, alliterative, and a-pragmatic.

The MkV versions ne'er came stateside pinch nan correct magnitude of pedals, and nan later versions pinch nan 2.0L turbos, while still awesome cars (i emotion my MKVII Golf R) don't look to person nan aforesaid presence.

There are much ostentatious examples of German engineering prowess retired location but that car will ever person my heart.

Submitted by: dburroughs

How tin you not emotion an all-wheel-drive basking hatch? (Though I do for illustration nan fifth-gen model.)

So galore beautiful cars to take from!

But successful nan extremity it has to beryllium nan magnificent BMW M1.

Peak "money nary object" choice: BMW M1. Used to beryllium obtainable and usable; BMW e30 M3. Actually real-world possible; a4 Jetta VR6 (as agelong arsenic personification other is paying to support nan electrical strategy functional).

M1 by far.

Submitted by: Rapchat, Steve65, Behemoth

I ne'er get tired of seeing these.

The Hoffmann – Just reasoning astir it brings a grin to my face. All nan VWs aliases MB aliases BMW each that each gets talked astir is really they built it for X number of years, it does 0-60 successful Y seconds, it was nan fastest astir immoderate dumb way and leaves nary room for wonderment but nan Hoffmann sets your imagination free to wonderment why connected astir each constituent and creation decision. 

Submitted by: Cluck

Now we're talking.

Absolute Favorite

Submitted by: Charlie Powell

I've ever loved these, and Wiesmann has 1 of nan champion automotive logos ever.

For maine it's nan VW Beetle. It is nan first car that I ever owned, but much importantly, it taught maine truthful overmuch astir really cars really worked. I had been driving for a mates of years erstwhile I sewage a 1965 Bug, but I didn't cognize overmuch much than wherever to capable those cars pinch gas. The Beetle was specified a basal benignant of car that it invited nan proprietor to get hands on. I changed nan oil, rebuilt nan carburetor, did a brake job, moreover bent nan hood backmost into spot and added a location made beforehand bumper aft I sewage into a insignificant crash. I wouldn't person dreamt of doing immoderate of those things until I sewage that VW.

Edit: I forgot to mention that it was nan car that I learned to thrust instrumentality on! It was remarkably forgiving for a novice that had ne'er seen a 3rd pedal.

Submitted by: XPDNC

I don't spot anyone who hates nan Beetle.

The BMW Isetta, because they are conscionable truthful wonderfully weird. How tin you not emotion a 3-wheeled, rear motor car that you person to unfastened nan beforehand of to get into?

Submitted by: Adam Minter

I wonderment what BMW would beryllium for illustration if it kept making caller generations of nan Isetta.

Mercedes Benz 600 (W100) Grosser.

Groundbreaking engineering; rather perchance nan top luxury car ever; nary uncertainty riding successful nan backmost would make 1 consciousness for illustration a hoity-toity royal aliases tin-pot dictator lording it complete each nan different alternatively pedestrian vehicles pinch nan temerity to beryllium connected nan aforesaid road

Submitted by: BB

There's simply thing for illustration a Grosser.

959 – a marvel

Had to scroll down waaay to acold to find a 959 mention. It's nan 959. Full stop.

Submitted by: dire wolf, Maxpowers

I'm really amazed much group didn't opportunity this. So overmuch cooler than an F40.

E92 M3, fundamentally arsenic adjacent arsenic BMW ever sewage to making a musculus car. If you inquire me, nary of nan M4 models since person had nan aforesaid swagger, and being a V8 ne'er hurt.

My fave is and will astir apt ever beryllium nan E92 M3 pinch its precocious revving exploding V8. yes its dated and underpowered compared to its caller model/competition. But I'm a sucker for precocious revving engines, particularly if its a V8. Sucks that nan rod bearings are insanely unreliable connected these and a batch of bmws of that era, but gosh, that 8500 redline.

LOL, I retrieve erstwhile my family moved to our caller location a telemarketer scamming car security called and asked if I drove immoderate older exemplary f150. I deliberation nan number brought that up aliases thing anywho I was for illustration ohio nary sir, I thrust a CLK GTR (the champion car I could deliberation of connected nan spot to messiness pinch him), and dude mislaid it. He beautiful overmuch said ohio nary we can't screen a car for illustration that. He asked what I did for a surviving and I said Oh I'm a neuro surgeon 😂. Before hanging up dude consecutive up said Sir, do maine a favor, thrust it for illustration you stole it.

Submitted by: 23 Aaron, cardawg

Bangle was correct astir everything.