Best Looking Cars For 1978: Beauty Is In The Eye of The Beholder

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The 1978 Monte Carlo was a great looking car

It was the era of style! My first car, I bought in 1999, was a 1979 Dodge Magnum GT XE. It was awesome, and drove great. I loved the hideaway headlights.

I bought a new 78 Dodge Magnum, silver with black interior, and totally enjoyed that car. The comfort was amazing, and with a 360, had plenty of power. I sure do miss it.

I had a Continental Mark V & I loved it, it was quite & comfortable & felt like you were floating down the road!!! 👍👍🙂

Cadillac Seville deserves a spot on the list. Although it was a few years old by then, it set the tone for GM styling for at least a decade including the Caprice which is on the list.

Just after graduating school in 1977 my dad bought me a 1978 Trans Am , special edition, gold with wide T-tops. I was 18 and on top of the world. I still own it and as long as I am alive ,I plan to keep it. My dad has passed away but I still have him too ,in my heart. I love you dad.🙏

Exciting time for the car industry. I was 13-14 years old in 1978 and members how excited I was too see the new 78 models such as the all new Monte Carlo, Regal, Cutlass Supreme, Grand Prix. Fairmount, Zephry etc.. I really loved the GM products .. but little I knew that many of the 78's cars weren't very good. I can't believe how cars changed every year and a few model years , looked so much different. I miss the exciting car commercials , the new model literature I got in the local newspapers in Oct etc. Today there is no excitement for the new model year and everything is bland, SUV's etc...I loved being a kid in the mid to late 70's !!!!

I had a 78 ltd2 with the starsky and hutch stripe! Also had a 78 town coupe. Miss those cars!

I lived through this era, 16 at the time, and I am glad to see my top pick for the year on your list. The '78 Dodge Magnum. A forgotten-but-fabulous-looking car, made just two years. At the time they said the grille was designed after the famed thirties Cords, and it is plain to see. It is a timeless look. This otherwise was a godawful year for car design, a watershed that marked the end of classic styling cues -- though it took another couple of years for auto styling to reach its nadir. '78 was the year of those damn rectangular headlights! They appeared the year before on some cars, but this was the year we saw them tacked onto pretty much every car on the market. I thought they looked hideous. Rectangles where circles used to be. Until that point, front grilles were always reminscent of the human face -- eyes, nose, mouth. But rectangular headlights spoiled everything. You can see what I mean in this video. Look at that '78 Cordoba! The '77 was one of the best-looking cars of the '70s. The '78, identical except the headlights, looks like a utility vehicle. Even the Trans Am looks a little cheap, compared to the round-headlight '76. (Fascinating to see the Camaro still had round headlights in '78). This was a harbinger of the appallingly ugly boxy styles we saw within the next two years. So my point? In '78, as today, I found the Magnum to be the only car to wear its rectangular headlights well. Notice how well they were integrated into the front fascia, with a headlamp cover, for a smooth all-round appearance? It was really ahead of its time. The fittings -- the T-tops, the leather upholstery -- they were top-notch. It was really the Dodge version of the Cordoba, but we didn't have that fussy boudoir look that infected so many higher-end cars at the time. If your tastes run to personal-luxury cars, as mine do, the Magnum was as close to a car-guy car you could get in '78. The only others that year that would suit me were the ones that kept their headlamps hidden.

Since we’re taking 1978, two of my favorites we’re the Dodge LIl’ Red Express pickup and the full size Dodge Vans with the fancy paint jobs.

I'm glad they told us where the comment box was as I otherwise would not have known!

As a 1978 model myself, I approve this list. 😅

I'm thrilled you chose the 1978 Trans Am as the #1 best looking car - because I own one! I own it because I think it has great styling. You showed one in Solar Gold, which I always thought looked beautiful on that car. I totally agree with the 1978 Dodge Magnum also, though I never owned one. The 78 Cutlass Supreme and 78 Chevy Caprice - those cars were amazingly popular. The Caprice was a huge improvement over the much less attractive 1975 - 76 styling. The Grand Prix - well, the 73 - 77 was much more attractive. The 78 was ok but so much was lost when it was restyled. However they had to do it as part of downsizing and improving fuel economy.

Never forget my parents pulling up in a 78 Pontiac Catalina. I was obsessed with the taillight design. It was mint metallic green and was just a notch above it's sister GM cars in looks.

Was 15 in 1978 and I remember all of those cars! Great picks for your list and I thought the epic Trans Am was so so cool!!! Loved most to those cars!!!

The cars I so overlooked back then. I would love to see them on the dealer lots now.

I also had a 79 Magnum. I loved the way it looked. Too bad it suffered from the malaise of late 70's performance because it had a hard time getting out of its own way. Did I mention that I loved the way it looked?

I'm a year off. My parents bought a brand new 1977 Mercury Cougar XR-7. I got to drive it all of the time back then. It looked just like the 1978 Cougar.

One of the best channels on YouTube!!! So, so so many memories. I had a 1972 Buick Centurion. Big car. I'd go back to that time in a flash!!! 😢