Fun - Top 10 cars for not being noticed

To be honest, most cars aren’t that visually exciting are they? Most just bumble along with sensible doors, and sensible bumpers, and sensible exhausts. They’re visually understated, functional things owned by sensible people.

Some however are just a bit too understated. These are cars that are so normal looking and so reservedly styled that no celebrity, actor or millionaire could drive one of these around, could they?

So then, let’s celebrate the top ten cars that just wouldn’t get you noticed. In reverse order of course:

10. Ford Escort - Funky for the Eighties, but these days you just don't think about them.

9. Mercedes-Benz C class - A nice, good car, but the baby Merc saloon and so many about that you don't pay attention.

8. Vauxhall Vectra - A practical, functional saloon, but not the most extrovert of cars is it?


7. Mercedes-Benz CLK - Unlikely for a coupe, but there's something about it which is somewhat generic.

6. Volkswagen polo - Sensible, normal and German, these are everywhere, and never in an outrageous colour is it?


5. 1990's Nissan Primera - Quite dull if we're honest. A smooth body for the 90's but in just the right way that it isn't exciting.

4. Toyota Corolla - As normal as Toyota have achieved really. Nothing that stands out here.

3. Nissan Bluebird - Not bad for the Eighties, but not particularly interesting. The only thing that saves it from true understated anonymity is that they're pretty rare these days.

2. Subaru Legacy - A very good car actually, but so beautifully calm and inconspicuous in design that it just doesn't stand out.

1. Volvo S40 -  Apologies to anyone who owns one of these, they're good cars, but you do have to admit: They are a tad anonymous. Like the Legacy above they're very good really, it's just they're very... well... safe and buying a S40 is a safer move than wearing a suit of armour when going into a boxing match. Not that safe is bad, its not, just not exciting.