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Perhaps everyone who cares about cars knows what a muscle car is. This year marks the 70th anniversary of the car that started the era of powerful cars with eight-cylinder V-blocks under the hood. It's a classy, spry and stylish 1949 Oldsmobile 88.
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In October 1969, Nissan introduced the Fairlady Z sports coupe. The car was exported to the European and U.S. markets as the Datsun 240Z and caused a revolution in the sports car segment. A good, affordable, reliable sports car from Japan that could also be used on a daily basis, which was unheard of at the time.
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More recently, Porsche began production of the new 2020 Porsche Speedster, which is based on the 991-generation 911. The car was presented in April 2019 at the New York Auto Show and will go on sale later this year. But the roots of the sports convertible go back to 1952, when the first Porsche Speedster was produced. And here is its brief but quite interesting history.
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Toyota Supra is a sacred cow for fans of Japanese sports cars, Japanese design, and Japanese automotive technology. However, the last generation has somewhat shaken the position of adherents of Japanese technology, as the new Supra is assembled on the basis of a completely non-Japanese BMW. Nevertheless, the car has a rich and interesting history and has not yet said its last word…
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“Whatever the future development of this type of car in Germany, there is no doubt that Hitler's government will help to popularize it”, an excerpt from an article by W.H. Millgate in The Detroit News, April 1933. Of course, you guessed that we're talking about prototypes of the VW Beetle, an absolute bestseller that, by and large, won't be out of production until July 2019. However, there is one page in the history of this car that few people are familiar with.
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The Chevrolet Corvair stands out as one of the most likely candidates for the title of "the most controversial American car of the 1960s. "Unsafe at any speed," was the branding attached to this unusual car by journalists. Actually, it was not so. More precisely, absolutely not so.
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That's something you wouldn't wish on your enemy. After World War II, BMW, one of the leading German companies in the car market, was left empty-handed. The honest communists took away the company's four complete factories along with the blueprints. The plants went to the German "red zone" (Brandenburg industrial area). What was not taken away was bombed and robbed. Thinking about new models was just pointless. If not for the BMW Isetta.
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In the north-west of Spain there is a town Ourense, province of Galicia. It is famous not only for the Cathedral of San Martino of the XII century and the remains of the ancient Roman stone bridge. There is a bronze monument in the central square of the city. So what, are there not many bronze monuments in Spain? There aren't many more like it. This is a monument to the Alpine A110 car. On the front wings of the rally car sit Stanislav Reverter and Antonio Coleman, stars of Spanish motorsport. It seems that they are thinking about a new tuning project for the French coupe...
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Because of the political circumstances, we don't know much about the Korean War campaign in the 1950s. We know that the bad Americans attacked the good North Koreans, who in turn started shooting at the bad South Koreans. The good, kind, honest and just soviet union could not help reacting to such an outrage and, of course, quietly took an active part in the confrontation in Korea. But there is one thing we do not know. If it were not for that mess, we would not have seen the wonderful Toyota Land Cruiser SUV, whose history begins with that very unpleasant conflict.
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This is a very special car. Not only in its design, but also in its technical characteristics and solutions, it is ahead of its time. The Lancia Delta undoubtedly belongs to the cohort of rally stars that achieved phenomenal success on the market. It was the only Lancia to win the title of Car of the Year.
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