Top 10 Most Beautiful Car Interiors of All Time - Which is Your Favorite (GM/Ford/Chrysler)?

If you order a car today, you usually get something inside that really looks like a sea of ​​solidified lava, effectively a horrible, low-gloss black plastic that is often hard to the touch and doesn't really have much design to it, that's not for you. is. Absolutely true for all new vehicles, some of the final vehicles have particularly nice displays and have nice

interiors

, but in general many

interiors

of today's vehicles, although some are really excellent, simply do not have the style or panache of vehicles from yesterday. year, a big part of that is just the materials that are used today and some of the shapes have to be designed for safety and crashes much more than in the past and some of the materials that used to be used like real wood, so like real metal and even metal for various pieces of switch knobs and gears, it is now much more expensive than it used to be back then, one last thing that many interiors used to have in yesterday's domestic cars is good. color, you can get many different interior colors besides black, gray or beige, often to match the exterior color of

your

car and that just went through the site again mainly because of the cost associated with having all those variations, however , in this video we are going to celebrate some of the best classic vehicle interiors and really focus on the period from 1955 to 1970, in

which

many of these superior interiors were produced.

It's hard to think of so many interiors after 1970 that were so captivating within domestic vehicles out there. a few here and there, particularly in the 80s, there were some quirky and extravagant high-tech interiors, we can save those for another day and instead focus on those that, instead of being technological and strange, are simply cool and let's call them

beautiful

and with that objective. In mind, we are going to focus on the years 1955 to 1970, so let's start with the list and at number 10 we have the Ford LTD from 1969 to 1970. Now Ford remade their full-size vehicles for the 1969 model year and this Being the second generation of the LTD, the LTD was introduced for the 1965 model year and was such a success that even Chevrolet copied it and introduced a Caprice midway through the 1965 model year as a hasty response to the LTD, but nonetheless, the 1969 LTD was just a great redesign of a vehicle on the outside and underneath it also had some really great chassis components that gave it a great ride. '68 was the first year that hidden headlights were fitted to the LTD, but that tradition continued in 1969 and 1970 before in 1971 they would be removed, but aside from the exterior, the 1969 and '70 LTDs also had a particularly striking interior, especially when the LTD was equipped with the Brome package, but it was not necessary to have the Brome package or even the LTD that could be obtained. a galaxy for example, a super cool interior and the

most

amazing thing about this, if that's even a word, is the surround driver Centric Dash on this vehicle, the 6970 LTD was one of the first cars that had this type of dashboard and you can see here that all the vital functions are inside that wraparound capsule the radio on the top left the clock on the top right both optional equipment the speedometer and odometer gear shift indicator the fuel door there in the middle and then various things like the lights and the wiper control as well as the HVAC control are all within that module, it's a pretty nice design overall and I have to say the overall interior design and overall materials are pretty good, especially for the price class in

which

the LTD participated, so this makes the list at number 10, we move to number nine and at number nine we have the Mercury Marquee from 1967 to 1968.

The Mercury Marquee was first introduced in the 1967 model year and in that year, until the 1969 model year, it was only a two-door coupe, you couldn't get a four-door Marquee, either hardtop or sedan, and the Marquee was Designed to be Mercury's top-of-the-line for 1967 and '68, making it the top-of-the-line vehicle for Mercury. in 1967 and 68 it was actually a two door car and not a four door car, regardless of the fact that the Marquee was simply a

beautiful

car from the outside, in 1967 it introduced this extremely beautiful and somewhat fast rear roof line which continued until the 1968 model year and Especially the rear three-quarter view of these vehicles is impressive just with that roofline combined with the vertical taillights, but while the exterior is beautiful, the interior is also beautiful and in fact I would say that represents one of the best interiors that Ford Motor Company. ever built in 1967, as I mentioned this was the top of the line car and the 67 Marquee has a slightly nicer interior than the 68, although both are simply stellar and made of very high quality materials with excellent fit and finish, and they both also have this super cool Cyclops speedometer as I call it in the '67, there is a little bulge on the IP top pad to accommodate that cyclop speedometer in the '68, this driver pod would really encompass that cyclop speedometer as well as a number of other controls such as HVAC controls. the radio and also the air conditioning vents or the Comfort Stream vents if you paid more for that option, but take a look here at this real 1967 Mercury Marquee interior and this is an original interior, not an aftermarket product.

Look at the beautiful play of colors on the seats as well as the door panel, buttons and this one has a mixed Corona vinyl as it was called on the cloth interior, you can also get a mix of real leather along with the vinyl, of course, this is a '67 Ford, so it has that flower. steering wheel, but it is also a beautiful steering wheel, it has simulated wood grain and the dashboard has simulated wood grain, but it is quite convincing and the interior overall feels especially rich and I must say, frankly, it looks beautiful for 68, some that luxury would be gone, but it still remains for the

most

part and can be seen here in the interior of the '68.

I think it's equally impressive and I actually like that hooded area above the speedometer light switch on the side of the car. driver, HVAC control and radio a little better than the '67 design, but Again take a look at the door panel and the complexity and frills it has. It's just a high-quality interior. Interestingly, these mares came standard with a 315-horsepower, 390-cubic-inch 4 Ventury premium fuel V8 under the hood, but you could get the same engine as you could. Find under the hood of the 7L Ford Galaxies the 428 cubic inches for Venturi V8 in this Marquee as well so you really get a gentleman's hot rod and ride in style, if you so desire, let's move on to number eight on number eight. have a vehicle that truly redefined the personal luxury coupe when it was introduced in 1969 and that is the Pontiac Grand Prix and specifically the model years 1969 to 1972.

The Grand Prix was introduced for the 1962 model year and was relatively successful back then and was became increasingly successful. As the 1960s progressed, at least until the mid-1960s, but by 1968, the somewhat dumpy 68 Grand Prix was not a big seller and Pine knew he had to reinvent the vehicle for greater success. of sales, so he did. in 1969 by introducing the stunning all-new Grand Prix and Pontiac would sell over 100,000 units in the 1969 model year; However, one of the things that was introduced in the 1969 Grand Prix, in addition to its excellent appearance, was an extremely driver-focused interior with what you see here this instrument panel that had a beautiful wraparound shape that was very driver-focused, something similar to the theme used in the 69 to70 LTD that I just mentioned, but here it was an even sportier concept combined with the majority of The big P, this center console that you see here, had three round pods which effectively spanned several gauges and the clock, speedometer and HVAC controls were on the right arranged in a vertical orientation instead of the typical horizontal orientation, the radio below that. and on the left were controls for the wipers and headlights of course again you can see the center console here where the shifter resided and you can also see in this particular photo the J on the front of the center console was the J the SJ and different model names in this Grand Prix which were selected by John DeLorean because he wanted to evoke memories of Duesenberg where the SJ Den noted a supercharged model, however there really was no supercharged engine in any of these Grands Prix, however , the '69 to '72 Grand Prix and its interior is one of, I think, one of the most impressive interiors ever put on an American car from that period.

Without a doubt, the only disappointment and the reason they are not higher on the list is that the materials in these vehicles were not as good as I think they could have been or even as good as the materials in Pontiac in the mid-1990s. the 1960s, where they used real walnut wood on the board, at that

time

the wood was fake, the plastic was hard and just not the same level of quality as the previous year's Grand Prix, but the theme that was implemented The interior for the '69 to '72 Grand Prix was still pretty good, let's move on to number seven, which is the 1958 and 1959 Lincoln and Continental all models in 1958, Lincoln introduced an all-new vehicle that was huge, big and also unibody and at the top end of the line, actually in a line of separate divisions, was the Continental Mark III which was the most expensive luxury car you could buy from Ford in the 1958 model year.

In 1958, the Continental Mark III and the Lincoln featured some, let's just call it, significantly curved and ambitious body side sculptures, Eng, and a lot of people don't care about the 589 and the 60 Lincoln and the 1960 Lincoln Continental Mark 5 and yes, in 1960 the Continental division had disappeared, so by then it was the Lincoln Continental Mark 5, but these vehicles are often forgotten even by Ford Motor Company, which when it reintroduced the personal luxury coupe at Lincoln in 1969 really just forgot about the fact that they had produced a Mark III in 1958, a Mark 4 in 1959 and a Mark 5 in 1960. In any case, the '58 and '59 Lincolns and the Continentals had a super cool interior and my

favorite

part is the instrument panel you see here, as well as The steering wheel, which for both 58 and 59 I think is a quite inspired design, but I must say that the instrument panel is truly a gem.

I love the semi-circular speedometer. It has a good complement of indicators that can be seen at the top. On the fuel gauge you can see the engine temperature and if the battery is charging or discharging and then you have the clock and the HVAC control on the left, and that is one of the funniest HVAC controls ever placed. in a vehicle, all the functions are basically on that screen and you turn the index pointer to activate heat, ventilation, air conditioning. This is not a car equipped with air conditioning because the lower left quadrant has nothing, this is all done by turning a knob that is then pulled to activate the fan speed, it is just a super original configuration, the Edsel had something similar , but I also think that this Lincoln, just the instrument panel, is something of an avant-garde mid-century modern design and here's another image.

From this 1959 instrument cluster and steering wheel, in this one you can see the steering wheel a little better and the beautiful jewels and the bakery light center and rim, again it's just stunning, especially in person, this particular one doesn't have the optional headlight. dimmer, you would see a pod on the top of that instrument panel for that, but it has the infamous crack at 55 mph that everyone had unless the dealer had replaced this instrument cluster glass in the past and the dealer had executed appropriately the service procedure to relieve stress in that area, however, 58 and 59 Lincoln.

I think the interior, the instrument cluster is absolutely stellar. In 1960 they would revise both and to me the instrument cluster was at least considerably less inspired than the '58 and '59 design. and that's why I didn't include it here, let's move on to number six and at number six we have the Imperial of 1964. The 1964 Imperial was designed by Lwood Angle and this was actually the successor car to Virgil Exner's Imperials from 1961 to 1963 by him. point Virgil Exner, who really pioneered Chrysler's beautiful advanced 1957 look with thin roofs and big fins, had been fired after his various early 1960s designs really failed in the market and when Engle arrived, It came from Ford Motor Company, where it played a major role in the development and design of the 1961 Continental.

If you look at the 1961 Continental and then look at this 1964 Imperial, you'll see more than a passing resemblance between the vehicles that adopt some form of , let's call it, quiteB housian. design, but the interior of the 1964 Imperial was a beautiful, extremely high-quality mid-century modern interior that I think is just stunning, especially in the context of what we're used to today. The first is the first. I have selected the 1964 Imperial for a specific reason and not the later model years and that is because 1964 is the first and only model year of this new Imperial where there is no column shifter, they would go to a stick of column shifts in 1965, but if you look at the top left, there's the instrument panel.

You'll notice that this still has the buttons to activate Chrysler's torque flight and between those buttons and the ones to the right of the instrument panel it looks a lot like a jukebox. I guess, by the way, you could say that those controls and buttons on the right of the steering wheel are for controlling the hvat and its various functions. You notice a slider bar below the buttons, which is the temperature slider, but the speedometer has an especially beautiful design with this rolling drum that was very typical in this period. So the faster you drove the more the drum turned and the more it painted a line on that speedometer that showed you what

your

speed was and on the Imperials you had a full complement of gauges, not just idiotic lights, so you knew how the car was actually performing. instead of just having a light illuminated. when something went wrong, but beyond the instrument panel, the interior of the 64 Imperial is simply stunning, including all the little details, like the door handles you see here, which are just this beautiful piece of chrome with a great lever Smooth activation and the materials are top-notch.

I also love the air conditioning vents you can see on the dashboard, which you lift up and turn towards you so you can get cool conditioned air blowing in your face. The 1964 Imperial, beyond having a sweet interior, is just sweet overall. car despite its rather conservative but stately styling and certainly has a great interior, let's move on to our next vehicle, next at number five, we have a vehicle from Pontiac's peak years, a 1965 Pontiac Grand Prix. There could almost be selected any 1965 Pontiac. but the top end trims like the Grand Prix and the Bonville had this real walnut wood on the dash in 1965 as well as the steering wheel, and if you got the Grand Prix, the center console and yes, There were other years in Pontiac with that real wood.

It was used on the board for several years in the mid-1960s, but the 65, at least in my opinion, is the best and the absolute pinnacle of the design. I love the plain and simple type of speedometer, but you still have these three different ones. pods configured to the right that turn towards the driver and on those pods you have a discharge and charge gauge, a fuel gauge and a clock and you have what appear to be two different radios but actually the leftmost one is the control from HVAC where one of the switches controls the fan speed, the other controls the temperature, then you have the cigarette lighter and then you have the knobs for the volume on and off of the radio as well as the tuning knob on the side right from the radio, you also get the cool Pontiac oet or grab handle that's near the glove box on these and on the Grand Prix you get this beautiful center console with real walnut wood and a great style shifter all on these Pontiacs have style and it was unique to Pontiac from that shifter to the turn signal lever if you had a bonnaville you would have a column shift and that column shift was also designed for Pontiac and every switch you touch or item you touch on the Interior just feels rich, it doesn't feel like it belongs in a Pontiac, frankly it feels like it belongs in a Cadillac and the design is just stunning.

It's hard to improve these interiors on these Pontiacs and it's even harder to improve the exterior. The 65 Grand Prix in particular has this beautiful, stealthy rear end. light appearance that even though only the outer parts are illuminated, you know the designers wanted everything to be illuminated and it still looks great. I also love how on the air conditioned cars Pontiac incorporated that center vent in the upper deck into a beautiful and the loose vision wheel on these is just a wonderful piece of jewelry, especially on days with plenty of sunlight of course, you get the Grand Prix, you also need that gauge in the center console, the vacuum gauge, because no one knows that you will get poor fuel consumption if you press the accelerator pedal harder in any case, the interiors of these are just stunning, the seats, door panels, dashboard, steering wheel, center console.

I just don't know how Pontiac could have improved this overall design. and its execution is simply stellar. The only reason it's not at the top of the list is because the design is a little unconventional yet very attractive and there are some other cool, quirky interiors that are a little more bizarre and I certainly put them a little higher up. . On the list, let's move on to number four, and that is the 1961 Buick full-size. The 1961 Buick full-size was brand new once again and the styling was a little more elegant than the vehicles it replaced if you take a look to the 1960 Buick here you can see that although it is a beautiful vehicle, it is a little chunky overall and the 1961 is just more elegant and written and I love that kind of pointy theme on the front of the vehicle, but on the inside The 1961 Buick also has a super modern, ultra mid-century modern dual cab interior.

You can see here that there's a space carved into the instrument panel to indicate where the driver and passenger sit, and this amazing clock, look at that clock over there. independent in nature and I love the center console area with the radio, how it's designed into the overall dual cab theme, but beyond what you see in a fleeting glance, I have to say that the 1961 Buick also has a cool piece of engineering and that's the speedometer look at the speedometer here and it's true that your eyes are playing tricks on you. You're not actually looking at the speedometer in the instrument cluster.

I was looking at a mirror that reflects the speedometer on the bottom of that instrument. panel, so it reflects the speedometer back into the mirror and that's what you're looking at. Buick did this so you could adjust the mirror and it gave you a little more flexibility to be able to see the speedometer regardless of your height now because it is a mere reflection which means the speedometer is actually printed upside down so it displays correctly on the mirror and works wonderfully. It's also one of those rolling drum speedometers where the drum rotates and that's what the pointer shows indicating your speed again, just a super cool piece of engineering that Buick developed.

It's quite atypical for the era, the rolling drum piece is not, but the mirror piece certainly is and as I said, it actually worked quite well and kept the gauges out of the sun so it was effective and cool. the overall interior theme on these 1961 Buicks, especially that dual cab themed instrument panel, I think it's a really interesting dual cab theme, different from how Chevrolet executed it and I would say even more beautiful, but it really deserves its location in this list and now. We move on to number three and it is an original vehicle from the old Chist era of 1961 to 63 Imperial.

The 61 Imperial was a new design with these funky independent headlights on the front, an asymmetrical grille with the little Imperial Eagle on the driver's side, and these tremendous tail fins with super cool taillights. If you wanted to drive a car, I guess you could say the Jetson you'd think would drive it would be the 1961 Imperial and just as radical as what's on the outside. The interior is even more radical if you can believe it in several ways, especially the instrument panel. Take a look here at this instrument panel from a 1961 Imperial and you'll see that on the left you have Chrysler's push-button torque fly transmission on the right. it has the HVAC controls in a similar button format, then it has the turn signal indicators on the top of both pods, then it has this wavy steering wheel, it's not a circle like any other car of the era, it's kind of a semisquare semicircle. then you have the cool speedometer with the complement of gauges and then you have again those cold air conditioning vents that you would raise on the front of the dash to cool you down.

You have a nice bright trim over the top of the glove box on this In one particular vehicle, you have the automatic headlight dimmer that you see in front of the speedometer, an overall crazy interior, and of course, to get a little crazier, you have a driver's seat that is higher than the passenger seat because the driver needs even more comfort. although the driver, if he has passengers, really travels the same distance, in any case, this 61 to 63 Imperial has one of the most original interiors I have seen in any car, between the driver's seat and the door panels, which they're cool and The futuristic look of the future and the instrument panel and the wavy steering wheel it's hard to say it gets much cooler than this, well I think it gets a little cooler as we'll see with vehicles number two and number one , but I don't think it gets funkier, so this is number three on the list of best interiors, but if you're doing the funkiest, I think it would really be at the top, at least for this era of the automobile, Let's move on to number two and that. is the interior of the 1960 to 196 Chrysler Astrodome that was found in Chryslers in those years, another Mopar that you say in this list and also one that overlaps with the previous one and to that I say absolutely yes because Mopar was producing the coolest interiors From all this

time

, at least from my point of view, the Chrysler Astrodome is one of those interior gems, particularly because of the instrument panel.

This was really one of the first times that a national car company created this beautiful three-dimensional instrument cluster that had the speedometer that you see here in a semicircle built in with various gauges, whether it be the fuel gauge, engine temperature, engine pressure. oil or the ammeter, everything was in this unit and done in a 3D format, like a jet engine and It looks absolutely stunning at night, as seen here when it is illuminated together with the other elements of the instrument panel, the buttons Torque fork flywheel on the left, HVAC buttons on the right, this is a 300, so it even has a center console with built-in tachometer.

It's a little useless and out of your field of vision, but notice that the steering wheel has this beautiful jewelry like the ponx we mentioned before in the shape of a loose wheel and the interior of these Chryslers is actually made up just of that instrument panel. I don't think there has ever been a cooler instrument panel produced by any domestic auto company and the Astrodome is something that was so cool that Chrysler abandoned it after the 1962 model year and then brought back a version that was far away. less cool in 1965 it didn't have the same three dimensionality, it just wasn't as cool as the 60 to 62 Astrodome was and of course by 1965, as I mentioned in the Imperial section, Chrysler had moved away from the boost. torque flight from the button to the conventional column shifter, so uh, it just wasn't the same, but the 1960 and '62 Chrysler with the Astrodome interior, one of the coolest interiors ever produced by a national auto company and let's move on to number one, and that's the 1963 to 1965 Buick Riviera now, although Buick was ultimately selected to produce the 1963 Riviera, many don't know that the revier's design was actually shared by many different GM divisions, including eMobile and Pontiac, besides Buick, in fact, the design was Originally supposed to be a Lal car.

General Motors was going to revive that nameplate, but after it was determined that it was not the right way to go, several GM divisions effectively had to bid for this car and Buick was the division that won from 1963 to five Riviers representing the pinnacle of the design for Buick during that period and almost General Motors, I'd say, too, especially the 1965 Rivier, which eventually moved the exposed headlights to the area behind the grille on either fender and the headlights would then open up when you activated them from the interior, but on the inside, the Riv 63 to 5 interiors are another simply beautiful design to behold, they have these great round gauges in front of the speedometer on the left right gauge cluster and the center console and how that's integrated into the instrument panel, this is one of the few vehicles where the console flowed seamlessly into the instrument cluster, truly seamless.

Remember that during this period it was a little difficult to execute this becauseThe body had to be rigid enough for everything to be that way. When just turning around and often on various GM and other vehicles that have center consoles you will notice a fairly noticeable gap between the top of the center console and the instrument panel, but not here, this actually reads as one piece of a design. For perspective, on top of that you have a near perfect use of bright work throughout the cabin and these cool switches in the middle of the center console primarily for the HVAC controls, it just looks great, feels great and I think about all the designs and the instrument clusters, this is really at the top of the list and, frankly, if I had to choose, I would say that the 1965 Revolution has perhaps the best combination of exterior and interior styling ever made, at least by General Motors , perhaps by any national automobile company, if excluded. some of the let's call them super true classics that are absolutely unattainable like the Cadillac v6 and vehicles of that era and earlier, but the 1965 Riviera is simply a design masterpiece in every aspect and it would be difficult to argue that this interior is everything contrary. awesome, let me know what you think of this list overall and if you agree with the options or order or if you think I missed one, leave a comment in the comments section and until then, thanks for watching.