Sports Cars
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7 TVR sports cars from the Grantura to the Sagaris
TVR began with Trevor Wilkinson’s 1947 special, and within ten years the company had built more than 100 Granturas. Over the decades that followed, the…
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8 Honda cars that proved what Honda engineers could do
Honda’s 606cc S600 roadster made 57 horsepower in 1964, which works out to about 94 horsepower per liter. The Honda S600 showed how the company’s…
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BMW’s U.S. importer Max Hoffman sent the 507 to Albrecht Goertz in New York, and BMW built only about 250
The BMW 507 roadster first started as a sales pitch from a car dealer in New York. Max Hoffman, BMW’s importer in the United States,…
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A 23-year-old Ercole Spada styled the 314-hp Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato, built just 19 times
Ercole Spada was 23 years old and new at Zagato when he drew the body of the Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato. Under that body…
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7 Morgans that still stop traffic
H.F.S. Morgan founded the Morgan Motor Company in 1909, and the firm builds its cars in Malvern, England, to this day. Over that time, Morgan…
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7 French Alpines that continue to impress at every car show
The first Alpine Renault road car appeared in 1955, built by a Renault dealer in Dieppe who already raced. The small French maker built fiberglass…
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6 Japanese sports cars from the 1960s built in far smaller numbers than you’d expect
In the 1960s, a rare Japanese sports car often meant a few hundred hand-finished cars built mainly for buyers at home. Honda, Nissan, Toyota, Mazda…
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8 Group B homologation specials that deserve to be the most collectible of their era
Every Group B homologation special existed because of one rule: to go rallying, a maker had to build 200 road versions. So Lancia, Audi, Peugeot,…
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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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A Long Island Ford dealer put a 289 V8 in the TVR Grantura and sold it as the Griffith
The TVR Griffith 200 was a small British fiberglass coupe with a Ford 289 V8 installed on Long Island, New York. Jack Griffith, a Ford…
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