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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.

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.🙏

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.

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

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.

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!

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

Here's a few imported picks for 1978 that I have long been fond of... Volkswagen Scirocco - First generation Giugiaro styling looked great then, still looks great now. Ford Europe Capri Mk II - Ford's "Sexy European" always looked great, a proper sporting coupe for the masses. Porsche 928 - Looked absolutely futuristic when introduced in 78, still looks gorgeous all these years later. Ford Australia Falcon XC - Looked good as a four door, looked exceptional as a coupe. Cobra and Alan Moffat editions are killer. Nissan/Datsun 280Z - Last year of the original Fairlady Z bodystyle, the original and the best looking. Mazda RX7 - The latest of Mazda's rotary rockets. It was less expensive yet still sporting and great on the eyes. Ford Europe Granada Mk II - This car looked fantastic when new and still looks sharp today. Renault 5 Gordini - Weirdly appealing French supermini with sporting asperations, sadly never sold in the USA (where I live). Stutz Blackhawk - Absolutely bonkers luxury car styled by Virgil Exner of Chrysler fame. Sinatra and Elvis each had one!

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!

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.

1978 Thunderbird should be added too.

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?

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!!!

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.

Good list for American cars of 78. I agree that the T/A was the best looking car of the time. For many years I looked for a Dodge Magnum that was in good shape and untouched. I couldn't find 1. I settled on a 79 Chrysler 300, which looked much like the 78 Cordoba with all its luxury, but gave 1 all the HD police parts to make it a real GT car. I still have it.

Got my driver's license in '78. The '78 Firebird Trans Am was at the top of my list then and still is. Too bad they ruined the iconic grill in the '79 model.

My first car was a 1978 Magnum. It had the 360. I loved that car so much until the transmission crapped out. It was a tank though. I thought it looked SO cool.

The 1978 Trans Am was the car back in the day. Had a friend with one. I got to drive it a few times. His was silver.

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

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 KZfaq!!! So, so so many memories. I had a 1972 Buick Centurion. Big car. I'd go back to that time in a flash!!! 😢

Owned a 1979 Dodge Magnum, still dream about it today.

My brother had a 1977 Mercury Cougar XR7. It was absolutely beautiful!

I was so jacked when the Dodge Magnum was introduced because The King (Richard Petty) came back to Dodge for this very car. It was so natural for him to be in a MOPAR. Sadly, the car was a dog and the King went back to GM where he won the 1979 Daytona 500 in an Oldsmobile Cutlass in one of the most memorable 500’s in the race’s history.

Had a 79 Lincoln mark v,78 Camaro, 77 firebird,78 challenger, and a 77 f150. The 78 challenger will always hold a special place in my heart because I dated my wife and used to pick her up from high school in it. It handled well,had nice options,and for a 2.6 Mitsubishi 5spd its boogie,up to about 110mph

Camaro and Trans Am will always have a soft spot in my heart! Beautiful pieces of art!

My dad had a 78 Cutlass. I had a 78 Firebird. My brother had a 77 Trans Am

Hard to beat the Ford T-Bird with the chrome wrap around roof

I currently own a 1977 Mercury Cougar XR-7. I've had it repainted, a little work done to spruce up the motor and a few other customizations to make it look and sound better! I like it because it brings nostalgia from the "good old days" and it's not something you see often anymore!😊

To me, the 1978 Chevrolet Corvette should've been number one on the list. That was the very best looking Corvette ever made.

1978 Ford Thunderbird Diamond Jubilee is diamond Blue would be my pick in 78. Great video

Great list, beautiful cars and I would ❤ to have any one of them right now 😊

My car from 1978 in the 1990's was a Cadillac Fleetwood limousine, black with grey upholstery. All stock - no pimping, no boomerang. Beautifull car. It still exists all stock.

Now people are gonna start talking about Dodge Magnums after I just sold my ‘79 Magnum GT!

Always a lover of Great American 🇺🇸 LAND YACHTS. 78 was the grand finale for Lincoln and Full size Chrysler. Once owned a 78 Town Coupe, large and definitely in charge of the road! Also owned a 77 Monte Carlo and enjoyed it, but 78 downsized version was a disappointment. Love the OTT excessive chromed luxury of the monumental LAND YACHTS! 🏆 😎

The videos keep getting more interesting by the week. I agree with several models on the list: Mercury Cougar, Pontiac Grand Prix and Firebird, Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, Lincoln Mark V, and Chevrolet Caprice. You should have included all the B Bodies and C Bodies sand G Bodies of that era. I personally think they all got better looking with the styling updates in 1980-1981. GM fixed the things that looked awkward styling wise. The styling got more streamline with lower hoods and high trunks. The details got sorted out too. You miss cars like that in 2023 because everything is a suv or crossover.

Had a 78 Chevette in 80, a 78 Grand LeMans in 81. Mid size family sedan, just for me. My dad won it playing cards. Loser got my Chevette. Good enough for any twenty year old student to fill with friends and drive back and forth to uni, work, anything. Buick Regal, Chevrolet Monte Carlo, Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, Pontiac Bonneville, Pontiac Le Mans, Chevrolet Malibu, Chevrolet El Camino, Oldsmobile Cutlass, were all badge engineered and super easy to find parts for.

ove the videos, cheers from Tillsonburg Ontario Canada, and we called parking lights "Bitchin' Lights". Always too cool in a 69 Javein!!! Cheers everyone!

The 78 2 door Buick park Avenue Electra, in particular the silver color. Such luxury and very appealing to the eye.

Great job guys. Keep up the good work!

Had an 79 Cougar and loved it. Your list was spot on

The Monte Carlo deserves honorable mention on the list and I would swap a 78 T-Bird for the cougar and it would be a fairly perfect list. I owned a 78 Cutlass and a few other 78's that didn't make the list, including 2 Monte's, a Sport Fury and a T-Bird. I'm sure I'm forgetting one or two more. The 78 T/A with the 400 4 speed is one of my bucket list cars along with an Alpine white Challenger RT stripe delete 440 4 speed.

My grandmother had a 1979 Chrysler Cordoba which was identical to number 10.

I had a Cordoba and loved it.

I absolutely LOVE the 78 Dodge Magnum!

77-78 Ford Pinto with the all-glass hatch and the sporty front end was a good looking car. I had one.

Great show Boca ! My favorites are the Caprice Classic , Cordoba , Lincoln Mark 5 and Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme . I wish the Ford Thunderbird was on your list umm next time .

I cannot argue with your list! I did like my 1977 Mercury Cougar XR7 better than any of the other '70s model years for the Cougar.

I bought a new 1978 Firebird and I agree with your choice as number 1 that year. It was very cool looking at the time.

Great vid!!! 👍👍

I had a Dodge Magnum , loved it wish I still had it.

I remember seeing a old lady driving a 78 cutless mint green paint with white and green interior growing up and i love it

Truth be told, all american cars from late 60s till end of 70s were awesome. I grew up with those cars and they still have a very special place in my heart.

Preferred the 76-77 Cordoba. Love the Cougars as well as the Thunderbirds from that era

Of course I'm a bit bias, but I was surprised that there were not any AMC's on the list. The AMX was based on the Concord Hatchback that year, and especially in the silver or black paint scheme, it was quite sharp!

I turned 13 in 1975 and was eagerly awaiting my driver's license in a few years. The late 70s cars are some of the best looking, if not the best made - they did have their issues, in my opinion. I loved the Lincoln Continental Town Car, a family friend had one.

My first new car was a 78 Ford Pinto Cruising Wagon that I still own and drive! Best looking....well it's very unique!

The 78 T/A started my obsession with T/As I have owned a number of examples from 2nd gen thru 4th gen. I never had a first gen Firebird still on the bucket list.

My favorite has always been the Trans Am ever since Smokey & the Bandit was filmed around my hometown area & I had one later on in 1989! My junior year of Hi Skool 1983 I had a '78 Ttop Z28! The other best looking car in 1978 for me was a truck, the fastest vehicle that year the Dodge Lil Red Express/Warlock ✌💖☮

I loved my 1978 Chrysler Cordoba.

Owned 2 Magnuns and a 76 Cordoba.The Magnum was the best looking IMHO

I agree! I had a 1978 Trans Am and took it to another level with the 1979 Anniversary Bird and color scheme with Porsche Turbo-style fender flares.

You forgot the 1978 NOVA Custom/Concourse. It was the best looking Nova and car for that year.

In 1978 I bought an AMC Concord D/L it wasn't the most exciting car but I loved it.

My graduation present was a 77 Cougar XR7 7, LOVED THATcar

All of them were really good cars, but I couldn't argue with you about the 78 Pontiac Firebird Trans AM. I was a kid but I loved cars, and those Trans AMs blew me away! They even put it in Smokey and the Bandit and even Rocky II had to show it... 😊

I was born in 1978 and my parents had a Corvette from this year which my dad actually drove to Detroit to pick it up from the Chevrolet factory and paid cash for it. For the longest time I remember it being white but everyone in my family tells me it was sky blue and whenever I rode along with my parents I was always in the back portion behind the seats where you would put your belongings at. My parents traded it in for a 1983 Buick Electra Park Avenue coupe to replace her 1977 Cutlass Supreme that had been broken into and stolen her seats while she was at work and vandalized.

I had a 1979 Firebird Formula. Pontiac’s Firebird line was iconic in style and grace

I had that Midnight Blue Cougar XR7. That was one of my favorite old cars. I refer to it as "the Beast"

1979 Olds Cutlass was my 1st car, got it in 1981! 🤩🚗

My first new car purchase was a '78 Malibu in Golden Brown Metallic with a cream vinyl landau top. Still think that was a beautiful car, all new for that year.

I might be purchasing a 79 coupe deville this spring up in wiarton Ontario Canada. From the 2nd owner. I know that we are taking about the 78s but, I just thought I would mention it.

I had a beautiful gold 1978 Buick Regal. It had some very nice factory mag wheels and I swapped out the bias-ply's for a set of Goodrich Radial T/A's. Still remains of one of my favorite cars I've owned.

I have had 2 '78 Impala's and a '78 Grand Prix. Now I drive a '80 Delta 88 Royale. V8 rulezzzz

Late 70s lunkin boats were the cats pajamas but nothing tops the lugshurry of passing the grey pupon in a early 80s landow roofed Crysler LaBarron. Plus with a 90hp four banger doing 0-60 in just over 100 seconds its also a sleeper.

Some of these were pretty much the same as the '77 models. The Cutlass was a disappointment when they shrunk it. My 76 looked so much cooler!

My very 1st car I owned was a 78 Dodge Magnum XE with a 360. I bought it when I was 15 for $1300 !!! A couple other honorable mentions would have to be.... 78 Dodge Aspen R/T & 78 Plymouth Road Runner and especially the Super Coupe versions !!! I always wanted one. Plus of course the 78 Lil' Red Express Truck/ Warlock !!! Fastest vehicle that year !!!

I owned a '78 Grand Prix and a '78 Corvette. Both wonderful cars.

my mother had a 78 Cutlass ,should make top ugliest it was 4 door salon , dad had 78 Mark it was pretty cool

My first car was a 1978 Buick Century. Not a bit surprised that’s not on this list 😂

I had a 78 cutless loved that car

I had a 78 Cutlass Supreme in Camel Brown w/ TTops

Owned a 78 Cougar with the 351 V8 and floor shifter. It was a great car

I was. Teenager in the 70s and I loved corvettes and Lincoln’s.

Thank you ❤

I would have added the Celica hatchback for 1978 as it has very nice clean proportions, arguably the first good-looking Japanese car, but more importantly I would have added the 1978 Chevrolet 2 door Nova. It was an iconic car for then and it was affordable, popular, considered handsome not overdone, and even though the styling dates back to 1975 for its most recent update, the 78 just had the perfect look of the Disco Nova from the Chevrolet hood emblem on the hood to the new steering wheel and dash. All in all a beautiful car in its final years.

I was 29 years old and bought a 79 Pontiac grand free black with the honeycomb wheels with a landale top with the sun roof and had to tan oppose you with the special bucket seats it was $9800 Kept it for a year and traded it in on a 79 cup Deville Right now in the garage is an 84 Buick Riviera convertible and a 2020 Cadillac CT4V

What about the 78 buick regal or el camino or the monte carlo ?

The 1978 GM B-Body, G-Body, F-Body and Corvette were the best looking cars of the decade. I'm biased as a GM fan. But I still think I'm right

I noticed you left out foreign models in your list. However, in 1978 Toyota first introduced the Supra model in Japan and Honda first introduced the Prelude to the US market in 1978. I certainly would've included these cars in my short list. Granted, I realize the Celica Supra didn't get introduced to the US market until 1979.

I had a 78 Olds Delta 88. I thought it was a pretty sharp looking car. 2 door with a moon roof. Didn’t have it long. It was a winter beater in the early 90s. I’d like to find another. They made a few with bucket seats and a console with a floor shifter. Think it was called a Holiday Coupe. All of the GM full size cars from that era were sharp in my opinion.

The top 3 were right on target. That Trans Am has certainly stood the test of time. But for those land yachts, none of them excite me.

My first brand new car was a 1978 chevy monza 2+2. I was concerned about fuel costs and it did look sporty.

I would have omitted a few of those and placed a few in the fill the gaps, but that list wasn’t far off from mine

I had one on the list, sort of. I had a 1979 Cutlass Supreme, which was identical to the 1978.