Think You Know Cars? Then Prove It And Name All Of These!
- by Clayton Leir
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How well do you know cars? No, but really. I'm not just asking if you know the difference between a Lamborghini and a Ferrari. Or a Mustang and a Camaro. I'm wondering how well you really know your cars. Specifically, I'm wondering how well you know your manly cars. After all, how can you call yourself a man's man if you can't name some of the greatest cars in the world?
Sure, you can think that you don't need to know anything about cars. You may not even own a car in the first place. Neither do I. But that doesn't mean it's not manly to really know your cars. And just knowing what a VW Jetta or a Honda Civic is does not count at all. Anyone who thinks that a Honda Civic is a manly car needs to just go through this list and see what we really mean when we ask how well you know your manly cars.
So, what are you waiting for? Show us that you know cars by naming for us the ones we throw at you. The more you know, the closer you are to being the truest car fanatic. Come on, get your thinking cap on, grab a drink, sit with your feet up on the coffee table with the game on, chomp down some pretzels and peanuts, and show us that you really know cars!
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This is possibly one of the most iconic cars in American history. It is the main feature of the original Gone In Sixty Seconds film and is supposed to be the same car used in the Nicolas Cage remake...except that they don't quite use the same model or same year. Of course, that doesn't stop them from saying that Eleanor is this exact make and model because they have to harken back to this beautiful machine of the past, lest they make fans angry.
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Since James Dean’s death in 1955, his iconic car, wonderfully named 'Little Bastard' has become infamous as the car that killed the legendary actor. There was once an episode of that late great show Unsolved Mysteries that was all about the alleged curse of the James Dean Porsche. This episode made the car out to be something more like the Plymouth Fury from Christine than some regular old sports car. It turns out that several people involved with this car in one way or another have been killed. Not just James Dean.
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This specific car happens to be a very special car for its manufacturer, as it was the only model ever produced by the company. This is a sports car originally manufactured by John DeLorean for the American market from 1981 to 1983. The car features fun gull-wing doors and a pretty innovative fibreglass body structure with a steel backbone chassis, in addition to external brushed stainless-steel body panels. It became pretty popular due to its interesting appearance as well as the car's big role in the Back to the Future franchise.
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Like many British manufacturers, this specific motor company had been using the Bristol straight-6 engine in its very small-volume production, including the car previous to this one which was a two-seater roadster. This car had a hand-built body with a steel tube frame, and aluminium panels that were made in England. The engine was a an old pre-World War II design by BMW which by the 1960's was considered understandably outdated. So., the company decided in 1961 to cease production of its engine and instead started using the 2.6 litre Ford Zephyr engine in its cars.
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This beauty is a model of automobile which was produced by from 1955 to 1989. It was originally introduced for the 1956 model year as a sub-series of a popular brand, becoming a separate series from the original car for the 1959 model year. This car was a full-size car from 1959 to 1961, then a mid-size car from 1962 to 1964, again a full-size car from 1965 to 1974, and again a mid-size car from 1975 to 1978. They couldn't make up their minds, or just had to flow with the trends at the time.
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This is a very famous car. Ford sent two identical versions of this car with sequential VINs to Warner Bros for a now classic film, both were extensively modified by famed Hollywood car-builder Max Balchowsky. The script of this particular film called for a 10 minute chase scene involving the now-famous jumps down San Francisco’s steep streets, so Balchowsky fitted some heavy-duty springs on the front and reinforced the shock towers as well. A stronger anti-roll bar was installed in front then what had previously been available, as well as additional shock absorbers.
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If you can't name this car then you have some serious issues going on upstairs. This car originally began as a 1955 Futura concept car that ran the manufacturers about $250,000 to build. It was pretty experimental at the time and definitely did not make it to any sort of regular market but this car did find both fame and glory as it was picked up to be used for a very popular and now cult-classic tv series. This car will forever be known by only one name now.
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This particular car is a British luxury grand tourer that was made by an English company and designed by the Italian coachbuilder Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera. Released in 1963, it was an evolution of the final series of the company's previous model. The series was named honouring Sir David Brown, who owned the car company from 1947 to 1972. Although not the first in the series, this car is famous for being the most recognized cinematic James Bond car, first appearing in the James Bond film Goldfinger back in 1964!
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The Super Sport version of this particular car is recognized by Guinness World Records as the fastest street-legal production car in the world, thanks to a top speed of 267.856 mph. The roadster Grand Sport Vitesse version of this car happens to be the fastest roadster in the world also, reaching an average top speed of 254.04 mph The car's chief designer was Hartmut Warkuss and the body was designed by Jozef Kabaň of Volkswagen, with a ton of the engineering work being conducted under the guidance of engineering chief Wolfgang Schreiber.
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This car was exclusively designed, developed, and manufactured by this moto company's private subsidiary group manufacturing high performance automotive parts. The car happens to be based on the Lamborghini Gallardo and presently the Lamborghini Huracán platform (even though it looks nothing like either car but for maybe the scooped sides). The basic construction of this car was based on the Space Frame, and uses an aluminium monocoque which is built using those same principles. The car was built in a newly renovated factory at the 'aluminium site' at Neckarsulm in Germany
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There have been seven generations of this little car to date. In fact, there have been just about ten different generations of this car in a relatively short amount of time. Do you wonder if that's because they're no good? Or because they're really good? The current models include a special and limited production edition that houses a pretty formidable 500 V8 with a 500 bhp V8 engine. It might be a small car, to be sure, but it packs a punch.
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This beast is a full-size luxury SUV engineered and manufactured by a pretty popular company. It was this company's first major entry into the popular SUV market. It was introduced for the 1999 model year in response to German and Japanese competitors and to Ford's 1998 release of the Lincoln Navigator. The project for this car went into production only ten months after it was approved. It is built in Arlington, Texas. The name of this car actually refers to a siege warfare tactic of scaling defensive walls by way of ladders or siege towers.
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This is definitely an American sports car manufactured by a division of FCA US LLC from 1992 through 2017 (though it took a brief hiatus from 2010-2013). Production of the two-seat sports car started at New Mack Assembly in 1988 and shifted over to Conner Avenue Assembly in October 1995. Although Chrysler considered ending production of the car because of money troubles, inSeptember 2010, chief executive Sergio Marchionne announced and showed a new model of the car to be ready for 2012.
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This car's exterior styling and features were designed pretty well only for aerodynamic efficiency, producing a whopping amount of downforce while running at 120 mph. There is a special function in the front grille featuring deformable winglets that lower at high speeds, in order to lower the amount of drag. The car's interior was designed using input from a famous former Formula 1 driver, Michael Schumacher. Based on current racing cars, the new steering system incorporates many controls normally located on the dashboard, such as turning signals or high beams.
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For 2010, this company introduced its second ever high-performance truck. In sharp contrast to previous models, this truck was based on the company's 1000 baja truck, with modifications designed specifically to improve its on-road performance while still working with off-road suspension. It is perhaps one of the most capable off-road, mass-produced vehicle available. For its 201 debut, the base engine was a 5.4 Liter V8 producing 310 hp, Though there were certainly additional options made available as the success of the truck continued.
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This sweet machine is a mid-engined sports car produced by an Italian automotive manufacturer. Debuted in February of 2011 at the Geneva Motor Show, only five months after its initial unveiling in Sant'Agata Bolognese, this car, internally codenamed LB834, was designed to replace the then-decade-old signature model to become the new flagship model of the company. Soon after the car's unveiling, the company announced that it had sold 12 cars, with deliveries moving out in the second half of 2011. By March 2016, the company had built 5,000 of these beauties, taking five years to achieve this goal.
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Following World War II, a British auto manufacturer made to resume the production of civilian automobiles, and its factory was relocated from Derby to Crewe. Once there, company engineers produced so-called R-Type vehicles for three years, from 1952 to 1955. These were derivatives of the original R-Type, which was the second series in this company's postwar luxury lineup. The R-Types had a chassis which was independently produced and sold to custom coach-builders in addition to fitting the bill for production cars. Only about 200 of these original R-Types were built, but this is now one of the leading luxury cars on the market.
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This particular car, which has come to be known as the "flying saucer" is part of a series of experimental sports cars produced between 1952 and 1953 by an Italian car manufacturer in collaboration with the famous Milanese coachbuilder Carrozzeria Touring. Three spider versions of this car were made in 1952, with a 2-litre, four-cylinder engine. Only one year later, one of these cars was modified into a coupé, and another one into a conventional-looking spider. Four of the five cars built in total survive today, and now there is a new model in town.
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Advanced lighting technology is one of many things that distinguishes this special truck from every other truck on the market. The company's front lighting signature is conveyed through what is called a "light blade" that delivers uniform LED illumination for the daytime running lamps. LEDs are also used for pretty well every other light source in the vehicle, with special lenses constructed from durable material with an almost crystalline quality. Larger than its predecessor in virtually every dimension, and with the larger grille and dramatic lighting this truck is given a unique broad-shouldered stance.
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This beauty is a personal luxury car that was manufactured and marketed by a fairly prominent car company from 1952 to 2002 over ten generations. some rivals and similar vehicles included the Lincoln Mark series, Buick Riviera, Oldsmobile Toronado and Chrysler's Imperial Coupe. This particular car was at or near the top of the company line during early model years. The original 1953 convertible version and the alternate Brougham models of 1957–1960 were the most expensive that the company offered in that time, and this car was never less than second in price after the special Series 75.
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This car is a high-performance version of a specific Series, developed by the company's in-house motorsport division. These models have been derived from seven previous models in the same series. The initial model was made available in a coupé body style. At times this car has also been available in saloon and convertible styles. Due to the coupé and convertible models no longer being part of the same series range, these two models are now placed under the label of a new series.
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This car is most certainly an American automobile manufactured by a fairly prominent company. The car is classified as a pony car though some versions are labelled as muscle cars. This car original model went on market back in 1966, for the 1967 model year and was made specifically as a competing model to the Ford Mustang. This car shared its original platform and major components with the Pontiac Firebird, which was also introduced for 1967. There have been four distinct generations of this car.
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This sweet machine is a grand touring sports car produced by an Italian manufacturer. It is a two-door 2+2 hard top convertible. When it debuted, the car was powered by a front-mid mounted naturally aspirated 4.3-litre V8. But that was just the first generation. in 2014, the second generation of the model was introduced and it used a new twin-turbo 3.9-litre V8. The name of this car harkens back to a much older model of the same name from the 60's. It was originally introduced as the entry level of the model range but it included some special new design innovations from the company.
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This is a car that has been going strong since the 1920's, so I'm not going to ask for model years on this one. The model in this photo was unveiled by live-stream in 2017. It made its public debut at a special company exhibition in London, England two days after the live-stream. The event took place at Bonhams auction house in Mayfair. The event featured a special car from each generation of the model from Fred Astaire's personal first generation car to other models driven by royalty, or made famous by other celebrities, including one owned by John Lennon.
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This awesome car is a front mid-engine, 2-seater, limited production sports car developed by a special division of a German automotive manufacturer. This was the first of the company's cars designed in-house by this division. The car, which has gull-wing doors, was the successor to a McLaren and was described by the company as a successor previous models. This car was pretty well assembled by hand (mostly in Austria) before being shipped to Germany for final touches. This is an electric version of an already awesome car.
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This wicked automobile is a high-performance mid-engined sports car that was built by a famous Italian automotive manufacturer between 1990 and 2001. It is the first production car from this company that was actually capable of attaining a top speed in excess of 200 miles per hour, which is no trivial feat! Once production of this particular car came to an end in 2001, the specific model was replaced by a newer and more modern company car, though with not as cool a name.
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This particular car has been modified by a number of groups from both private teams and the factory workers itself for racing, rallying, and all other sorts of automotive competition. It is perhaps among one of the most successful competition cars. In the mid-1970's, naturally aspirated versions of this car won major world championship sports car races, such as Targa Florio and the 24 Hours of Daytona, even against newer prototypes. A turbo version based on this car also won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1979 and the company won World Championship for Makes titles in 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1979 with similar models.
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This is an amazing Italian mid-engined sports car produced by perhaps a lesser known manufacturer. Succeeding the company's previous model, this car had a base price of over $1 million! It is named after a wind god of some sort. It was named "The Hypercar of the Year 2012" by Top Gear magazine and received a gleaming review when it was tested by Richard Hammond on the Top Gear show. In 2015 it was reported that the car has been sold out. It was limited to just 100 units after all, as part of the company's agreement with engine supplier Mercedes-AMG.
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This is the high-performance variant of an earlier base model from this company. It also holds the coupé, cabriolet, and five-door fastback versions of the fourth-generation company saloon and estate models. Like all company cars of this class, they are only available as standard with a quattro four-wheel drive system Most versions of this car are manufactured at a plant in Ingolstadt, Germany. they are available as a coupé, cabriolet, and five-door sportback, none of which were previously available in North America this past model year.
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This beautiful machine which was codenamed the F-150 is a limited production hybrid sports car built by an Italian manufacturer. The name of the car was simply meant to suggest that this is the definitive version of not only this specific model but the specific brand as well. On 3 December 2016, one of these cars was auctioned for $7 million making it "the most valuable 21st century automobile ever sold at auction". And in 2017, the last of the special Aperta version was auctioned for $10 million!
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At the 2015 North American International Auto Show as well as at the unveiling of the 2015 racing video game Forza Motorsport 6, a new and modern version of this very special car was introduced and set to be produced and released in 2016. The particular date was set to mark 50 years since an earlier version of the supercar won the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans. This version has run successfully in the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans to mark the anniversary pulling in the win in the GTE class.
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On January 21, 2013, the GT version of this very car set a Guinness World Record for the fastest production car in the world from 0–186 miles per hour with a staggering average acceleration time of 13.63 seconds. In addition, this car set an unofficial record for 0–200 mph acceleration at 14.51 seconds, which would beat out the Koenigsegg Agera R's time of 17.68 seconds But this is of course, unofficial, making it the unofficial fastest accelerating production car in the world.
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This super speedy machine is a mid-engined sports car produced by a Swedish car manufacturer since March 2011. It is a successor to the CCX/CCXR models under the same brand. The name comes from a Swedish verb which means "to act" or in its imperative form "(You) act!". It was named Hypercar of the Year in 2010 by Top Gear magazine (with no surprise). As of November 2017 a specific model of this car became the world's fastest production car, with an average top speed of 277.9 mph.
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This bad boy is a sports car built by Italian automotive manufacturer Lamborghini replacing its previous V10 flagship. This car made its global debut at the 2014 Geneva Auto Show, and was released for purchase in the second quarter of 2014. The LP 610-4 designation of this particular model comes from the fact that this car has 610 metric horsepower and 4 wheel drive, which is crazy to think of. The LP in the designation stands for "Longitudinale Posteriore", which refers engine positioning. This car was named "The Supercar of the Year 2014" by automotive magazine Top Gear.
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This baby is a two-seat supercar from a prominent manufacturer. It is the second model in the F marque line of the company's performance vehicles and it follows three concept versions which have each debuted at the North American International Auto Show with the current model designation as part of the company's series concept line. After development in the early 2000's the first concept debuted in 2005, followed in 2007 by a second version with a more completely furnished interior and exterior. The third version of this car was a roadster model, which debuted in 2008.
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This car is the basis of a series of luxury cars produced by a division of the American automaker Ford Motor Company. The very first of these cars made its debut in 1939 as a coachbuilt convertible for Edsel Ford, the nameplate has been in use by the company now across ten generations of vehicles for various times over nearly 80 years. The nameplate of the car is originally pulled from a 1939 convertible, intended to adapt European exterior styling to the body and chassis of an American car.
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This car debuted in North America under one name but as the as the Eunos Roadster in Japan It is a lightweight two-seater roadster with a front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout. Made in Hiroshima, Japan, this car debuted in 1989 at the Chicago Auto Show. It was always conceived of as a small roadster with both light weight and minimal mechanical complexity limited only by legal and safety requirements. That didn't stop it from being reliable though. This car was made to work as a successor of the British sports cars of the 1950's and '60's, like the Triumph Spitfire.
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This beast is a British limited-production plug-in hybrid sports car. It made its debut at the 2012 Paris Motor Show, and retail began in the UK in late 2013. Each of the 375 units made were sold out in only a month's time. Production ended on December 1 2015. The United States was responsible for 34% of the units sold and Europe for a close 26%. It is considered to be the successor to the F1, utilizing hybrid power and Formula 1 technology, but does not have the same three-seat layout as its predecessor. Like the F1, the P1 is a mid-engine, rear wheel drive design that used a carbon fibre monocoque and roof structure safety cage concept called MonoCage, which is a development of the MonoCell first used in the MP4-12C and then in subsequent models.
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The production model of this specific car debuted at the 2007 Tokyo Motor Show, launching in the Japanese market in December of 2007. The U.S. official launch was several months later in 2008. A particular dealership in Los Angeles provided a customer with the delivery of a new version of this car, fresh from the production line at exactly 12:01 am, on July 7, 2008. The Canadian launch was also in July 2008. Europe was late to the game as the third consumer market, where it launched in 2009.
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We don't need years or model names for this one. Just what type of car it is. This is an American-made car. It was originally based on the platform of the second generation Falcon, which was a compact car. The original 1962 version of this car was a two-seater concept which evolved into the 1963 four-seater concept car used to pretest how the public would take interest in the first production model. This is probably one of the most popular and affordable muscle cars out there today.
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This car is a front mid-engine, 2-seater, limited production sports developed by a German automotive company and was the first to be designed in-house by a specific partner company. The car, which has gull-wing doors, was the successor to the McLaren and was described by as a "spiritual successor" to the Gullwing. This car's name means "Super Leicht Sport" (Super Light Sport). It was assembled mostly by hand, with both its chassis and body shell produced by Magna Steyr in Graz, Austria before being sent to Germany for assembly. Even the engine is built by hand.
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This particularly special Lambo is equipped with a 6-speed semi-automatic transmission and an all wheel drive system, which is coupled to a 5.2-litre V10 engine borrowed from the now old Gallardo Superleggera, which means that this baby pumps out about 562 hp 400 lbf⋅ft of torque. Not too shabby. The chassis, body, drive shaft and suspension components are all made of carbon fibre, which decreases the weight drastically and puts the supercar in at 2,202 lbs which makes it about as light as a sub-compact car.
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This bad boy is a mid-engined sports car built by an Italian manufacturer. It debuted in 1999, and production ended in 2018 with several commemorative special editions being produced until year's end. By June 2009, 135 of these cars had been built. Both 2-door coupé and roadster variants have been produced along with a third new variant named the Barchetta. Construction of the car is mainly carbon fibre to lighten the machine. Some of the early engineering was done by theF1 champion Juan Manuel Fangio. The car was supposed to be named the "Fangio F1" after him, but, following his death in 1995, it was renamed...which seems mean.
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This car is a battery electric vehicle sports car that was produced by an electric car firm based down in California from 2008 to 2012. The car was the first highway legal serial production all-electric car to use lithium-ion battery cells and the first production all-electric car to travel more than 200 miles per charge. It is also the first production car to be launched into orbit, carried by what is called a Falcon Heavy rocket in a test flight in February 2018. The car is also the first production all-electric car with a top speed of more than 200 km/h.
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This particular sports car was originally created simply as a concept car. It was a privately funded concept car that formed a basis for the second generation of this specific model badge. The racer-concept car was designed by Pete Brock (the youngest designer to work at GM at that time), Bill Mitchell (GM Vice President of styling), and Larry Shinoda in 1959. The basis of this car was originally a 1957 abandoned racing project. This car exists today with a 327-cubic-inch (5.4 L), fuel-injected V-8 of 375 hp.
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This exciting car is a mid-engined plug-in hybrid sports car. This surprising car is powered by a naturally aspirated 4.6-litre V8 engine, with two electric motors for a combined output of 887 bhp. This car's 6.8 kWh lithium-ion battery pack delivers an all-electric range of 12 miles under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's five-cycle tests. Production of this car began in 2013, with deliveries initially scheduled to begin in December of the same year. With a starting price of $845,000, this car was sold out in one year! Production ended by the summer of 2015.
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This particular car is a subcompact luxury crossover SUV produced by a famed joint British manufacturer which is a subsidiary of Tata Motors. The car has been produced since July 2011 in three and five-door versions, with both two-wheel and four-wheel drive. The production vehicle is similar to a previous concept car the company had, which was unveiled at the North American International Auto Show in January 2008. The manufacturer sold nearly 88,000 units of this model in just its first year of production.
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It seems that by many standards, this particular automobile is the definitive 20th century 4x4.There is plenty of criticism of this statement but no one can deny that this has been a very significant car in automotive history. "With an international pedigree like a Land Rover, the rugged simplicity of a Jeep and swagger like an old Bronco", according to Jalopniks.com, this vehicle is a classic. It looks pretty cool but the driving experience is so much more than you might expect.
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This car is a 2+2 developed for and sold by a German manufacturer between 1955 and 1974. Designed by an Italian model maker and hand-built by a German coachbuilder, it was available as both a coupe and a convertible. This car used the same chassis as the VW Beetle! More than 445,000 of these cars were produced in Germany over the car's production life, not including an alternate variant. The company's factory in Brazil produced 41,600 cars locally for South America between 1962 and 1975.
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This particular car is a front mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive grand tourer produced by an Italian sports car company. This car debuted at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show, and replaced a previous series of grand tourers. The naturally aspirated 6.3 litre V12 engine in the car has won the International Engine of the Year Awards 2013 in both the Best Performance category and Best Engine above 4.0 litres. This car was named "The Supercar of the Year 2012" by car magazine Top Gear.