Top Ten Best Designed Cars

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http://autos.aol.com/article/g...90001Top 10 Best Designed VehiclesBy BENGT HALVORSONQuote, originally posted by Forbes Auto »Good design may always be on our shopping list when we look for a new car, but what’s to say that a vehicle is well designed? To some, design means the overall shape of the car, while to others it’s the way the car fits its function, how it addresses the details or even how well the car performs.To help take a look at just what good design is and choose the best-designed vehicles sold today, we enlisted the help of several top-name design experts in the U.S. currently working outside the industry. They are Imre Molnar, dean of Detroit’s College for Creative Studies (CCS); Tom Matano, co-director of the school of Industrial Design at Academy of Art University in San Francisco; and Brigid O’Kane, coordinator of the Transportation Design Track at the University of Cincinnati. These schools, along with Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif., are the educational centers for automotive design in the U.S.Our design panel feels that a well-designed car is determined by the following: proportion and stance, design consistency, functionality and staying power.The Top 10-1.Mini Cooper2.Chrysler 300C3.Land Rover LR34.Infinity FX455.Bentley Continental GT6.Rolls-Royce Phantom7.Aston Martin V12 Vanquish8.Cadillac CTS9.Toyota Prius *should be Vibe *10.Koenigsegg CCX

[Mavrik]

Thats odd... I was never really tickled pink with the designs of any of those mentioned cars lol. I do like the mini and the vanquish but as the top ten best designed? nah...