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The A90 Supra's non-functional body vents aren't a styling afterthought — Toyota carried them over from the race car prototype and designed them so aftermarket shops could cut them open and make them work.
Every R35 GT-R engine was hand-built by one of just nine Takumi craftsmen at Nissan's Yokohama plant across the car's 18-year run — and each one stamped their own name on the engine they built.
The F40 was the last Ferrari Enzo Ferrari personally approved before his death in 1988.
The FD's 13B-REW rotary used sequential twin-turbos -- the first mass-produced car with that setup ever exported from Japan.
This Type R broke a two-decade streak — every Civic Type R since 2001 had been built in Swindon, England. The FL5 is built in Japan instead.
BMW built a one-off E30 M3 pickup truck in 1986 — and actually used it as a genuine workshop hauler for the M division for the next 26 years.
The 930 Turbo's whale tail rear spoiler housed the intercooler for its turbocharged 3.3-liter engine, added for the 1978 model year.
All 400 units of the widebody 22B STI, built to mark Subaru's 40th anniversary, sold out within 30 minutes to 48 hours of going on sale in Japan.
Lamborghini built the Aventador's carbon monocoque from just 8 moulds, each rated for roughly 500 uses — a hard production ceiling baked in from day one.
The original Miata was supposed to be a cheap sports car, but demand was so strong that buyers crossed state lines chasing dealers who actually had one in stock.
Honda's engineers chased an unlikely muse for the original NSX's cockpit: the view from an F-16 fighter jet shaped the car's low beltline and all-round visibility.
The track-focused GTD variant of this generation briefly stood alone: it became the only American production car ever to lap the Nürburgring in under seven minutes.
Red paint on an Evo VI means one thing: only the Tommi Mäkinen Edition got it, reserved for the car that wore the rally champion's name.
Every time this 720S's dihedral doors swing open, they're not just for show — air channels inside them are feeding the engine.
Tesla eliminated the Model 3's stalk-mounted turn signal switch and moved the function to buttons on the steering wheel for the Highland redesign.
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VerifiedFIRST · WORLDWIDEFIRST PRINTONLY ONE IN VANCOUVERHonda expected about 3 in 10 Prelude buyers to spring for four-wheel steering. In Japan, 8 in 10 did — an option Honda badly underestimated.
VerifiedFIRST · WORLDWIDEFIRST PRINTONLY ONE IN VANCOUVERIts side-exhaust Renesis rotary was designed specifically to pass emissions rules its RX-7 predecessor could not, letting it back into America.
VerifiedFIRST · WORLDWIDEFIRST PRINTPROBMW built just three driveable E46 M3 GTR road cars for homologation in 2001 — but the GTR found legend status anyway, through a 2005 racing game that made it one of the most recreated liveries in car culture.
VerifiedFIRST · WORLDWIDEFIRST PRINTPROThe 812 GTS was Ferrari's first front-engined V12 series production convertible in fifty years when it arrived in 2019.
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