Ranked: America’s most beautiful cars

One form of Corvette or another appears fewer than

One form of Corvette or another appears fewer than four times in this Top 30 of most beautiful American cars ever made.

Now the model has undergone a startling transformation, from classic front-engine, rear drive V8 sports car to mid-engine, all-American V8 Ferrari challenger.

Is the 2020 Corvette a beautiful car? It’s too soon to say as knee-jerk reactions to anything are unwise. Need it be beautiful? Maybe not. Not all American cars of today or the past can be so described, but many have proportion, presence and punch in their design, and plenty are pleasingly handsome.

Jojn us, then, for Autocar’s first-ever roundup of what we reckon are the most beautiful American cars

29: 2006 Hummer H3

28: 1930 Cadillac Series 452 V-16

28: 1930 Cadillac Series 452 V-16

Launched at 1930 New York Auto Show five months after the 1929 stock market crash, Cadillac’s 185bhp V-16 was designed to compete with the very best. Strong early sales soon soon fell away, but Cadillac persisted.

The 452 was offered with limousine, two-seat roadster and four-seat cabriolet body styles, and it’s the roadster, of which just 10 are said to remain, that’s the most stylish.