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7 Australian muscle cars so rare even collectors rarely see them
Many low-production Australian muscle cars exist because of one race: Bathurst. Several were homologation specials, built in just the numbers needed to qualify a race…
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Harry Truman’s last car, a 1972 Chrysler Newport, wore plate 5745 for V-E Day and shows under 19,000 miles
Harry Truman’s last car was a light green 1972 Chrysler Newport, and it still sits in the garage behind his house in Independence, Missouri. The…
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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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Renault’s 1.5-liter turbo V6 won its first Grand Prix at Dijon in 1979, two years after the RS01 debuted
On July 1, 1979, Jean-Pierre Jabouille drove the Renault RS10 to victory in the French Grand Prix at Dijon-Prenois. It was the first Formula 1…
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How Honda’s VTEC switched cam lobes at about 4,500 rpm to get 160 hp from the 1989 Integra’s 1.6 liters
Honda VTEC gave a small four-cylinder engine two personalities, one for town and one for the top of the tachometer. It first went on sale…
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A Trabant ordered in 1976 was registered on the day the Berlin Wall fell, after a 13-year wait
One Trabant in a museum collection carries a whole East German story in its paperwork. Its buyer ordered it in 1976 and then waited 13…
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Peugeot’s 500-hp RCZ Vision revives the RCZ coupe name with a solid-state battery and 600 km of range
The Peugeot RCZ Vision is a 500-hp electric coupe concept that brings back the name of the RCZ, the two-door Peugeot built from 2009 to…
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Dodge built 59,114 WC-52 three-quarter-ton trucks for World War II, each with a 77-hp T214 six
Dodge built 59,114 examples of the Dodge WC-52, a three-quarter-ton 4×4 that carried soldiers, ammunition and guns through World War II. Under the hood, each…
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Lancia’s Stratos HF put a 190-hp Ferrari Dino V6 in a road car and won three straight rally titles
The Lancia Stratos Stradale was a road car built so a rally car could exist. Lancia needed hundreds of street versions to make its wedge-shaped…
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Why Honda gave its NR500 racer oval pistons and eight valves per cylinder to chase 23,000 rpm
The Honda NR500 was a four-stroke Grand Prix racer built to beat two-strokes at their own game. To do it, Honda gave each cylinder an…
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