Readers of the Daily Telegraph have voted for their top 100 most beautiful cars of all time, and Jaguar has figured heavily in the readers' results.

'When we asked Telegraph Motoring readers to nominate the most beautiful cars of all time the response was as substantial as it was diverse. Hundreds of you argued and voted for 367 models, although no points were awarded if you simply wrote 'any 1950s Ferrari' or nominated the Vincent Black Shadow (only cars were eligible). Some nominations were very specific (and possibly mischievous – 'Austin Allegro, but only in beige') but most revealed the breadth and depth of your passion for all things automotive.

After many hours spent sifting through the stats we can now reveal the top 100, a remarkably varied collection of curves and straight lines, old and new. If classic cars predominate, it is probably because, like great art, it takes time for a design to escape the influence of fashion and be fairly judges on its own merits; it also explains why many modern cars take older models as their inspiration. Of course beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and this is a never-ending debate.

1 – Jaguar E-TYPE

Received almost four times as many votes as any other car. Also name-checked by quite a few who didn't choose it, as in: "I would have picked the E-type but the narrow track ruins its proportions." A minority view, it seems.

2 - Citroën DS

Timeless poise and style, as favoured by getaway drivers in all black-and-white French gangster movies. Did we expect to find a family saloon breaking the sports car stranglehold at the top of the list? None bar this.

3 - Jaguar XK120/140/150

Lumped together because they look the same – and this list is all about aesthetics, not power output or fractional adjustments to front and rear track. Optimism made metal in immediate postwar Britain.

4 - Ferrari Dino 206/246 GT

Pretty Pininfarina-styled sports car named after Enzo Farrari's son. Launched in 1967, it was never actually marketed as a Ferrari but became the company's first significant seller when engine was uprated to 2.4 litres two years later.

5 - Lamborghini Miura

As befitting a car with eyelashes around the headlamps, it was astonishingly seductive when new in 1966. The same holds true 42 years later.

9 - Lotus Esprit

Forget the patchwork switchgear, poached from Triumph, Hillman and elsewhere. Savour the shape and the chassis… then keep your fingers crossed that nothing breaks.

10 - Ferrari 250 GTO

A paragon of balance, on road or track. The downside? Ferrari built just 36 of them.

11 - Jaguar D-type/XK-SS

Three-times a Le Mans winner in the 1950s. Jaguar had built only 16 examples of the road-going XK-SS version when the moulds were destroyed in a factory fire.

12 - Jaguar Mk2

Favoured by crims when up against the late John Thaw as The Sweeney's Jack Regan. Favoured by Thaw when he morphed into Morse. Unmistakably lovely.

27 - Jaguar XJ6

In 1968, nothing else said "company director" quite so eloquently.

47 - Jaguar XJ-S

Looked as though the design team ran out of ideas aft of the C-pillar, but still possesses a certain charm. Works particularly well as a cabriolet

80 - Jaguar XJ220

Some customers tried to get their money back because of specification changes (it had a V6 turbo, rather than the V12 they anticipated), a price hike and the availability of the even-more-exclusive XJR-15. They lost.

81 - Jaguar XK

In the absence of an F-type, the closest thing you can get to an E-type for the 21st century.