I think, perhaps harking back to Sauber’s days, I prefer a yellow sun rather than a golden sun on the Red Bulls, but I’d have to agree that STR promote the fun-loving fancy-free image better. Still, somebody’s gotta be the boss and act professional.

As for the “green cars never go well in F1″, I would present the Jordan 191 as a counter-example. However, going for marketing over substance was probably what keeled the whole Honda thing over (much as its previous iteration was keeled over by BAT-centric behaviour in 1999).

1) Williams - I agree with you that they were the class of the filed as far as looks go. A very well proportioned car with matching colors.

2)Ferrari - I liked the car very much when the switched back to their traditional red. The first pictures of kimi in pre season Ferarri colors made me puke!!

3) Mclaren - I expected their livery to be a lot more different this year than just replace the black oval on the side pods of last years car with vodafone red. But the livery grew on me through the season. I still think the 2005 Mclaren was the best looking car they built in a long time.

4) Honda - Here is a surprise!! I always loved the Jaguar racing greens and they were one of my favorite teams though they never achieved anything! Honda seemed to remind me of the Jag, but I am starting to believe the statement that someone told me at the beginning of the season - “Green colored cars never go well in F1″

5) STR - I thought the STR’s livery conveyed red bull’s wild, wacky and fun loving image better than the A team. I also thought that the golden colored nose on the STR looked lot more elegant and gelled well with the blue than the shouting yellow of the A team’s car.

6) Redbull - Still, the MClarensque looks and the pinstripes meant it was a good looking car. only not as good as its B team!!

7) BMW - The corporate color scheme was too bland for my taste. Still the car looked OK. I never understood why they never used the turquoise color of petronas in the sidepods. That would look very good with their white and blue scheme if done well. And they have enough white in the car where they can move their BMW blue colors!

Spyker - Welcomeback orange to the grid! Alas, a short life..

9) Renault - honestly, they could have done a more thoughtful job than just taking out the sky blue and sticking in the ING colors. Thats a sucking deal!

10) Super Aguri - Their 2006 livery looked a lot more better than this one.

11) whats the eleventh team in F1 called?

@Jamie: Thank you for your kind words. And it seems as though I’m out in the cold when it comes to BMW - most here seem to rate it much higher than my penultimate last position. At least no body seems to be disagreeing with me too much with Toyota’s placing.

Unlinke Williams, i believe BMW managed to execute the ‘white balance’ perfectly alongside other present colours on their car. The metallic blue coupled with attractive corporate sponsorship also adding to the attraction.

Sorry to hear of your wrist injury, i do hope it recovers sufficiently, for your sake, as soon as possible. Get well soon.

I must admit, I am considering swapping McLaren and Renault in the list. The more I look at the Reggie the more I like it. I hope it doesn’t change too much now Alonso has returned. And the front of the McLaren was a little messy.

Take the McLaren as an instance of paintwork overpowering the look of the car. Concentrate and try to see the car underneath the stupidly flashy colours - it’s positively ungainly and looks out of balance, bent in the middle as though someone very heavy sat upon it and covered in details that only detract from any flowing lines it might retain. A truly awful design that probably needed the silly paint job to look anything like a car at all.

As for the Toro Rosso, I get my cartoons at http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/ , thanks very much.

I admit to gawping at it for quite a while.