My least favorite is from 2000 To 2010, and my favorite is 2011 to 2021. There is nothing About specific cars, I just do not like how Most of the cars look In that Period.
I wanna say the 80s or the 2010s are my favorite eras of cars. 80s cars just had such cool visions of the future, and there were many new creative ideas, in addition to some of my most favorite European cars being from the 80s. Least favorite would honestly be the 2020s. We have not finished it yet but, so many legendary gas powered cars are approaching their death (if they have no died already), and being replaced by extremely ugly, big and inefficient electric SUVs I’m talking about you BMW XM. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a firm believer that electric cars are and will be significantly better daily driver cars than gas cars. Way less maintenance, cheaper to own, softer and smoother ride, more environmentally friendly if the electricity was produced in a green manner, etc etc. But as for the enthusiast market, the 2020s are a shot in the dark and I don’t see it getting any better. We just have to keep our old cars from the 80s 90s and 2010s in good condition and running because there won’t be anymore hellcats or gas powered 911s or alfa romeo giulias or mazda rx7s being made
I’m a sucker for anything around 1985-1995. That sort of intermediate era where the square-bodies of the 70s were still hanging around but the under-hood technology was finally getting to be not shit. The overall market was super competitive so a bunch of manufacturers were trying zany interesting designs that led to a ton of variety, birthing such things as the rx7/miata, fiero, crx, etc…
Toyota’s MR2 and Supra are icons of this era. Basic, reliable fuel injection and electric ignition is easy to keep running.
I’d say the 2010’s or so. The garbage tech from the 70’s 80’s was finally completely gone. Manufacturing quality seemed to find it’s stride with better materials, insulation and finishing even on a budget. Screens also weren’t as ubiquitous so interiors were practical and will age well. We got the GTR, some amazing GT3’s, Mustangs were better than they ever did, the LaFerrari/918/p1 trio jumpstarted an entirely new category and feel free to add cause I’m probably missing a bunch.
These were great changes from the 90’s where the tech was impressive but early CAD designs suck to work and fix. The 00’s brought terrible styling on top of that while still being low tech.
Difficult to generalize but when speaking about the types of cars I’m mostly into which is modern luxury sedans and trucks I’d say they peaked somewhere between 2005 and 2015 and excluding few exceptions it’s only been downhill from there. For some reason so many modern cars have absolutely hideous looking tail lights especially and don’t get me even started on with those unibrow lightbars.
