The prettiest generation of MX5s?

[chris_robbo]

 In the eye of the beholder of course. Mine is a mk2 and to be honest whilst I love driving it I am not mad keen on the looks from the front particularly. I think of it as a plain jane type girlfriend who nobody gives a second glance but you know the inner her so you don’t care! The 2.5 deals with this front end issue I think, but if there is a best looking one in my opinion it’s a close run thing as the mk1 is a well balanced look, but for me the 3.5 takes it by a nose. This may change next week of course! 

[Zimmerframe]

The mk1 is Twiggy in her 1960s prime, driving a Lotus Elan along Carnaby Street with “love me do” on the radio.

The mk2 is Joanna Lumley as Purdey in the New Avengers, sandwiched between the bloke who sold coffee and the older one wearing the second most famous male corset (with the most famous being Captain Kirk).

The mk3 is Keira Knightley (that often?) buckling a swash in the Carribean.

But which one is the prettiest? That’s an impossible question. I’d have Twiggy on Mondays and Thursdays, Purdey on Tuesdays and Fridays and Keira on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

And on Sunday I’d need a rest.

 

 

That is such a good answer, I wished I’d thought of that.  For me, its Purdey…

 

[VO5_Jo]

Mk3 is not anorexic… so nothing like KK!

anyway… i love all three for individual reasons…

[Once]

 Good point. But I thought that even the mk3’s wheel arch extensions weren’t big enough to suggest Angelina Jolie…

[VO5_Jo]

LOL
The 3.5 has her lips

[Dragonhunter]

aaahhh now I took the question quite literally.

For me, the mk1 is definately the coolest, the mk3 the most macho. the mk2 is pretty, and in my opinion, femininely styled, but i prefer the mk2.5 with the slightly more modern twist on it.

so, the mk2.5 is “prettiest”