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Now that's a tricky question, as almost all decades have had both great and god awful designs. With the 30s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 90s, and the 10s all giving some of the best looking cars of all time, but all having some much worse design ideas or simply being boring when it comes to less interesting cars.
The 30s, can easily be said as the decade of the highest quantity of magnificent looking cars, due to the coachbuilding being popular among the rich, who were still major part of car market. I can't really say, I'm an expert of the decade, though. In fact, I can't name even a quarter of the great looking cars, produced back then. The same can't be said about the decade after it, thanks to WW2, but even the late 40s brought some good looking cars, including the Saab 92 and Talbot-Lago T26 GS, after the first 2 years after the war. And the great looking cars kept on coming through the 50s when the Italian (and German) car industry started recovering. Then came the 60s, which pretty much still is the best decade of car design, with no other decade peaking it, although it's hard to say, whether the late 50s was even slightly better in some ways or not. The first years of the 70s were good too, but slowly got closer to the sheer boringness of the 80s. After the 80s, the 90s was considerably better decade than the one before it, with great looking sportier cars like Jaguar XJ220 and Aston Martin DB7, which in my opinion is actually better than the DB9, it also brought very good designs to normal people with Renault Twingo, Ford Ka, Mk2 Volvo V70, and slightly less interesting Peugeot 406. And as much as I want to like the two decades after it, the 00s is bit boring, and even though there are some good looking cars made during the 10s it still brought the in my opinion awful split headlights and unnecessary angles.
The 30s, can easily be said as the decade of the highest quantity of magnificent looking cars, due to the coachbuilding being popular among the rich, who were still major part of car market. I can't really say, I'm an expert of the decade, though. In fact, I can't name even a quarter of the great looking cars, produced back then. The same can't be said about the decade after it, thanks to WW2, but even the late 40s brought some good looking cars, including the Saab 92 and Talbot-Lago T26 GS, after the first 2 years after the war. And the great looking cars kept on coming through the 50s when the Italian (and German) car industry started recovering. Then came the 60s, which pretty much still is the best decade of car design, with no other decade peaking it, although it's hard to say, whether the late 50s was even slightly better in some ways or not. The first years of the 70s were good too, but slowly got closer to the sheer boringness of the 80s. After the 80s, the 90s was considerably better decade than the one before it, with great looking sportier cars like Jaguar XJ220 and Aston Martin DB7, which in my opinion is actually better than the DB9, it also brought very good designs to normal people with Renault Twingo, Ford Ka, Mk2 Volvo V70, and slightly less interesting Peugeot 406. And as much as I want to like the two decades after it, the 00s is bit boring, and even though there are some good looking cars made during the 10s it still brought the in my opinion awful split headlights and unnecessary angles.
