Sports Cars
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Mazda’s rotary Cosmo Sport lasted 84 hours at the Nürburgring in 1968 and finished fourth
In 1968, Mazda sent two rotary Cosmo Sports to an 84-hour race on the Nürburgring. One went off the road with about two hours to…
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9 engines in Lotus road cars, from the 75-hp Coventry Climax in the Elite to Toyota’s V6 in the Evora
Lotus has never built every engine it used, and that is half the fun of its road cars. The story of Lotus engines runs from…
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Iso made refrigerators and the Isetta before it built 797 Corvette-powered Rivolta GTs
Iso started out making refrigerators, built the Isetta bubble car, and then put a Corvette V8 in an Italian grand tourer. That car was the…
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6 engines AC used in the Ace and Cobra, from the 1919 Weller six to Ford’s 427 V8
AC Cars put six different engines in the Ace and its Cobra offspring between 1953 and 1967. The story of the AC Ace engines runs…
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9 Corvette Indy 500 pace cars from the 1978 coupe to the 1,064-hp 2025 ZR1
According to IndyCar, no car has paced the Indianapolis 500 more often than the Corvette. Every Corvette Indy pace car run came in 1978 or…
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Malcolm Bricklin’s SV-1 used hydraulics to lift its 90-pound gullwing doors
The Bricklin SV-1 gullwing doors weighed 90 pounds apiece, a lot of weight to raise overhead. So Malcolm Bricklin gave his mid-1970s sports car a…
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Ferruccio Lamborghini built tractors from war-surplus parts before his first car, the 1963 350 GTV
Before the bull badge, there were Ferruccio Lamborghini tractors. He built the first ones from war-surplus engines and parts in 1947 and 1948. Fifteen years…
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7 Morgans from the three-wheeled Runabout to the BMW-powered 2019 Plus Six
Morgan was founded in 1909, and its line runs from a tiller-steered three-wheeler to a BMW-powered roadster. In between came the four-wheeled 4-4, the Plus…
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Toyota cut the roof off two 2000GTs for ‘You Only Live Twice’ because Sean Connery didn’t fit inside
When Toyota’s 2000GT landed a role in the 1967 James Bond film “You Only Live Twice,” the coupe had one problem. Sean Connery did not…
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Crosley’s 1949 Hotshot had four-wheel disc brakes until road salt seized them and drums returned in 1950
In 1949, a tiny Crosley sports car rolled out with disc brakes at all four wheels. A year later, those Crosley Hotshot disc brakes were…
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