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Oct 9, 2024 · Aston Martin V8 vs Jensen Interceptor III: GT showdown. Features. | 8 Oct 2024.
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3 days ago · Other ’80s breeze-loving stars included the Renault Fuego (Cd: 0.32), Ford Sierra (0.34), Peugeot 405 (0.29) and Vauxhall Calibra (0.29) The 1950s and early ’60s was an era when the ‘jet age’ was enthusiastically projected by the industry, but the real progress happened away from the giant fins and rocket imagery.
30 V6 classic car greats - Classic & Sports Car
The V6 engine has been around since the start of the 20th century, but it wasn’t until after the Second World War that it really got going. This configuration has gone on to power some of the most intriguing and diverse spread of classic cars. Here, we celebrate the V6 engine in its many different applications, from luxury car to supercar ...
25 classic cars with Fiat’s 100-series engine
2 days ago · The Fiat Multipla was perhaps the oddest of all the 100-series-engined cars. It was essentially a regular 600 with an extended cockpit, and in its most extreme form it had six seats arranged in three rows of two. This left no space for anything resembling a front crumple zone, an aspect which would give Euro NCAP heart palpitations today, but ...
25 classic cars with Fiat’s 100-series engine
25 classic cars with Fiat’s 100-series engine. In case the subject pops up in a trivia quiz you might be taking part in, the 100-series was the first engine ever to be mounted in the rear of a roadgoing production Fiat. The car in question was the 600, successor to the front-engined 500 Topolino which had first appeared in 1936 and remained ...
Toyota MR2 vs Fiat X1/9 vs Reliant Scimitar SS1: wedge-shaped fun
3 days ago · The Toyota MR2 was first revealed as a prototype at the 1983 Tokyo motor show. The X1/9, of course, had been around since 1972. Largely and inexplicably ignored by its Torinese parent – from 1982 it was even stripped of its Fiat badging, marketed instead as a Bertone – it nonetheless survived where its mainstream rivals faltered.. It was joined in ’84 by the Toyota, an up-to-the-minute ...
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Oct 4, 2024 · Ford Pinto vs AMC Gremlin and Pacer: cult classic cars. Features | 2 Oct 2024 2 Oct 2024
25 of the most luxurious classic cars ever - Classic & Sports Car
1. Packard Eight (1924) Packard ranked alongside the very best in the world for pre-war luxury cars. Much of this was thanks to insisting on the best components and build standards for its models, as well as the supremely refined 5.9-litre straight-eight engine that sat on rubber mounts to further isolate it from the car’s occupants.
Classic & Sports Car’s 2022 highlights
Dec 26, 2022 · Car of the year. Rétromobile in Paris is always wonderful and 2022 was no exception, not least for Simon Kidston’s breathtaking display of McLaren F1s. But my heart was stolen by another rare supercar, Koen Heuts’ remarkable 1971 AMC AMX/3 (below right). Driving this 340bhp Bizzarrini wonder, the last of six cars built, would be a dream.