Vote for your greatest British car: The 1960s

Jaguar E-type: Cited as one of the most beautiful cars ever made, its pace and price gave rivals a bloody nose in the 1960s

MG Midget: Low cost roadster brought huge excitement to 226,000 customers who bought one around the world

Mini Cooper S: Few cars of the era became as synonymous with motorsport, making legends of Hopkirk, Mäkinen and Aaltonen

Lotus Elan: Affordable exotic remains a handling benchmark 50 years on. Unconvinced? Just ask the Mazda MX-5 engineers

Lightweight Jaguar E-type: Rare racer still wows at today's heritage races. One became the world's most expensive restoration

Aston Martin DB5: There are faster Astons, but few more beautiful and none more famous. Thank Bond for that

Lotus Cortina: Built to succeed on the race track and excite on the road. Few 'normal' cars were faster at the time

Gordon-Keeble: Might have a tortoise on the badge, but Giugiaro styling, Bertone assembly and a 300bhp V8 ensured appeal

Hillman Imp: 440,000 rear-engined Imps were sold and it became a badge engineering hero with Singer, Commer and Sunbeam versions

Ford GT40: Mk1, 2 and 3 models were designed and built in the UK and it was the Mk2 that took the 1-2-3 in Le Mans in 1966

Sunbeam Tiger: Alpine evolved into the Tiger thanks to Carroll Shelby, but unlike the Cobra, assembly was a British affair

MGB GT: Clever packaging allowed plenty of luggage space, rakish looks and sporty prowess. Spawned an intriguing V8 version, too

Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow: Rolls's first-ever monocoque design was a sales smash - more Shadows were sold than any other Rolls

Triumph 1300FWD, Leyland's first front-drive car, was rewarding to drive, comfortable and affordable

Jensen FF: The FF, not the Interceptor, was the first-ever road car to use four-wheel drive

Ford Cortina 1600E: The hot hatch of the day was affordable, fast and at the time, even more desirable than Lotus version

Rover P5B: P5 was the choice of prime ministers and royalty of the day. B models received a lusty Buick V8

Triumph TR5 PI: The 'first ever fuel-injected British production sports car', boasted the sales literature

Reliant Scimitar: Popular sports car sold for 22 years in coupé and convertible form and as a GTE shooting brake

Triumph 2000: A modern monocoque-based saloon with independant suspension all round and, later, fuel injection

Aston Martin V8: Aston's bruising muscle car was on sale for an astonishing 20 years