Best Cars of the 1980s: Window Shop with Car and Driver

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Welcome back, Window Shop viewers. It’s been a while since we gathered the Window Shop crew and we have missed making this ridiculous “show.” But after several months of trying to align the team’s schedule and many cancelations, we all gathered together on Zoom and recorded a new episode.

The challenge this week is to find the best car of the ’80s. Since “best” is open to interpretation, the panel was instructed to define best as, “significant and awesome.” That direction didn’t really clear much else as some leaned heavily on “awesome” and others went for “significance.” The budget? A generous $100,000.

This week we’re joined by senior editor Elana Scherr, executive editor K.C. Colwell, contributor Jonathon Ramsey, editor-in-chief Tony Quiroga, and no Window Shop would be complete without R&T senior editor John Pearley Huffman. As usual, the choices and arguments are all over the place and one editor even tries to sneak in a ’90s car into the mix.

Let us know who you think won and what you would have picked in the comments. And, look out for a new episode next week.

Editor-in-Chief

Tony Quiroga is an 18-year-veteran Car and Driver editor, writer, and car reviewer and the 19th editor-in-chief for the magazine since its founding in 1955. He has subscribed to Car and Driver since age six. “Growing up, I read every issue of Car and Driver cover to cover, sometimes three or more times. It’s the place I wanted to work since I could read,” Quiroga says. He moved from Automobile Magazine to an associate editor position at Car and Driver in 2004. Over the years, he has held nearly every editorial position in print and digital, edited several special issues, and also helped produce C/D’s early YouTube efforts. He is also the longest-tenured test driver for Lightning Lap, having lapped Virginia International Raceway’s Grand Course more than 2000 times over 12 years.