Luxury Cars
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Woolf Barnato’s Bentley Speed Six reached London from Cannes in 1930 before the Blue Train got to Calais
In March 1930, Woolf Barnato drove a Bentley Speed Six from Cannes to London and parked at his club before the Blue Train even reached…
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No more than about 25 Maybach Zeppelins were built as the DS 8, with an 8-liter, 200-hp V12
Maybach built about 1,800 cars before the war ended its car business. Roughly 200 of them were Zeppelins, and no more than about 25 were…
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Pininfarina’s Paolo Martin styled the 1975 Rolls-Royce Camargue, the first car with dual-zone air conditioning
The Rolls-Royce Camargue was a two-door Rolls styled in Italy by Pininfarina’s Paolo Martin and launched in 1975. At its debut it was the most…
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W.O. Bentley’s Lagonda V12 ran third and fourth at Le Mans in 1939, months before war ended production
In June 1939, two Lagonda V12 cars finished third and fourth in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Lagonda treated the race as a trial…
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6 Lancia flagships from the unibody 1922 Lambda to the Ferrari-engined Thema 8.32
Each Lancia flagship on this list put a new piece of engineering on the road. Together, the six cars span 64 years, from a 1922…
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Ghia stretched each Crown Imperial limousine 20.5 inches by hand in Turin, and 132 were built through 1965
From 1957 through 1965, every Crown Imperial limousine began as an ordinary Imperial hardtop and finished as a hand-built Italian conversion. Chrysler shipped the cars…
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An MIT student styled the 1931 Marmon Sixteen, whose aluminum 491-cubic-inch V16 made 200 hp
The 1931 Marmon Sixteen carried a 491-cubic-inch V16 made almost entirely of aluminum, rated at 200 horsepower. Its body lines, though, came from a teenager.…
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Hispano-Suiza’s 1919 H6 had servo brakes so good that Rolls-Royce built them under license
Hispano-Suiza showed its H6 at the Paris Motor Show in October 1919. The Hispano-Suiza H6 had a six-cylinder engine taken from aircraft practice, and it…
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6 East Coast coachbuilders that put custom bodies on Duesenberg, Packard, Lincoln and Rolls-Royce chassis
A coachbuilder took a bare chassis from a carmaker and built a custom body on it. These six East Coast coachbuilders dressed Duesenberg, Packard, Lincoln…
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8 Rolls-Royce Phantom generations from the 1925 Phantom I to the 2017 Phantom VIII
Rolls-Royce first used the Phantom name in 1925, and the company counts eight Rolls-Royce Phantom generations since then. They run from a big six-cylinder touring…
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