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This Prius broke a decades-long streak: after weak sales of the previous generation, Toyota didn’t bother bringing the fifth-gen Prius to Australia at all.
The "RS" on an Audi isn’t just a badge — it’s literally German for "racing sport," short for RennSport.
BMW swapped the M135i's N55 six for the B58 in 2016 and renamed it M140i without changing the body.
BMW kept the F20 rear-wheel drive while every mainstream rival in its class went front-drive.
BMW's 2021 update to the M135i retuned its springs and dampers, and turned its artificial engine sound up louder.
BMW built a hatchback with a longitudinal engine and rear-wheel drive, a layout no other hatchback maker bothered copying.
BMW's own engineers cap this hatchback's output lower in Europe than the same engine gets elsewhere.
In 2012, UK thieves found they could program a blank key fob straight through the 1 Series's own OBD port and drive off — no break-in required.
Tick the Shadow Line trim and the Hofmeister kink on the C-pillar is shaped into the numeral 1.
The N54 engine in the 1M was BMW M's second turbocharged unit ever, after the X6 M's V8.
The F40 came out 5 mm shorter than the car it replaced, yet front-drive packaging gave it 42 mm more front legroom.
Chevrolet didn’t sugarcoat the Aveo’s pitch in the US: it was marketed outright as the "lowest-priced new car in America."
The third-generation Chevrolet Aveo was introduced in December 2022 for Mexico as a hatchback and sedan built by SAIC-GM-Wuling; in Chile and nearby it is sold as the Sail.
The Optra sold in the US was a rebadged Daewoo Lacetti, built in South Korea after GM acquired Daewoo's assets in 2002.
The Sonic's paint shop skipped an entire oven — an industry-first water-based process cut the plant's energy use per car in half.
The Sonic is built at Gravataí, the plant opened in 2000 to make the Celta, and shares the Onix hatch's doors, windows and C-pillar.
The FD2 Type R's sedan shell is bigger and stiffer than the old JDM Integra Type R's, yet Honda only added 70 kg: the weight penalty for a whole size class up.
Honda deleted the rear wiper and heater ducts to shave 38 pounds off an already stripped Type R.
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.
This British-built hot hatch had an American heart — every FK2 Type R's turbocharged engine was actually cast and built at Honda's Anna Engine Plant in Ohio before shipping to the UK.
Engineers moved the fuel tank under the driver's seat, since this British-built Type R shared no chassis with Japan's sedan version.
Honda claimed 5.7 seconds to 62mph for the FK8 Type R — Car and Driver's own stopwatch had it hitting 60 in just 4.9.
The EK9's B16B engine was hand-built and revved to 8,200 rpm, squeezing 182 hp from just 1.6 liters -- unheard of for a compact in 1997.
Britain built the Japanese-market EP3 Civic Type R at Swindon, then shipped it home to Japan with the Recaros and helical diff Europe didn't get.
Did you know the Maserati 225 is literally named after its own horsepower? In 1989 Maserati's enlarged 2.8L Biturbo V6 was tuned to exactly 225 hp for North America, and that number became the car's badge.
The EQS launched with a 0.20 drag coefficient, the slipperiest shape of any production car at the time.
The EQS 53 marked a first for the three-pointed star's performance arm: the first all-electric car ever to wear an AMG badge.
The third-generation Capri was developed jointly by Ford and Mazda and built in Ford's Auto Alliance plant alongside the Mazda MX-6.
It was the first Australian-assembled car ever exported to the US, styled outside by Ghia and inside by ItalDesign.
Its ASC McLaren spinoff began when an engineer's wife, a Ford employee, was barred from parking her own Mercedes-Benz SL at work, so he built her a convertible.
Nissan built only 10,000 Be-1s, but dealers reportedly received more than 30,000 reservations before production even started.
Nissan's tiny March/Micra Super Turbo squeezed a supercharger AND a turbocharger onto a 930cc engine — and decades later it still holds the record for the fastest production Micra Nissan has ever built.
Nissan only built 31,352 Paos over three years — yet it had 51,657 applications for the car, which sold out in just three months.
The Wave was a rebadged Daewoo Kalos sold by Pontiac in Canada, later becoming the Chevrolet Aveo/Wave lineup.
Jeremy Clarkson barrel-rolled a Twingo 133 upside down through a Belfast sewage tunnel on Top Gear — then crashed repeatedly chasing a ferry he still missed.
The new Twingo is a parts-bin special underneath: its front axle comes from the Renault 5 and 4, its rear axle from the Captur.
Renault moved the third Twingo's engine to the rear, which let the front wheels turn a startling 45° — an 8.6 m turning circle tighter than almost anything else on sale.
Renault named the Twingo after a portmanteau of 'twist', 'swing' and 'tango' to evoke the car's playful character.
No conveyor belt builds a GR Corolla. Toyota's "GR Factory" assembles each one at fixed stations, by hand, like a specialty shop rather than a mass-production line.
Toyota ripped out the GR Corolla's rear wiper and door speakers to drop 45 kg for one man's car.
The first-generation Prius sold in Japan from 1997 but did not reach the US and Europe until 2000.
The Prius Eco lost its spare tyre, rear wiper and boot lining to pass the original Honda Insight as America's most efficient non-plug-in car.
The XW30's solar roof was meant to help charge the battery, but that setup interfered with the radio, so it only ran a ventilation fan.
Developing the second Prius produced 530 patent filings, and its all-electric air-conditioning compressor was an industry first.
The Mk8 Golf R hides a genuine party trick: a factory Drift Mode, built into the updated all-wheel-drive system of what's still, on paper, a practical family hatchback.
The Mk7 Golf R's all-wheel drive isn't always all-wheel drive — under light load or while coasting, it disconnects the rear axle entirely to save fuel.
America's Mk6 Golf R wasn't quite the car sold everywhere else — when it arrived for 2012, VW left out the dual-clutch gearbox entirely and quietly detuned the engine.
This generation's liftback body had one genuine design flaw road testers called out at the time: a rear cargo lip so high it fought the folding seats meant to compensate for it.
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VerifiedFIRST · WORLDWIDEFIRST PRINTThe FD2 Type R's sedan shell is bigger and stiffer than the old JDM Integra Type R's, yet Honda only added 70 kg: the weight penalty for a whole size class up.
VerifiedFIRST PRINTThe Prius Eco lost its spare tyre, rear wiper and boot lining to pass the original Honda Insight as America's most efficient non-plug-in car.
VerifiedFIRST PRINTONLY ONE IN VANCOUVERPROIn 2012, UK thieves found they could program a blank key fob straight through the 1 Series's own OBD port and drive off — no break-in required.
VerifiedFIRST · WORLDWIDEFIRST PRINTONLY ONE IN VANCOUVERNo conveyor belt builds a GR Corolla. Toyota's "GR Factory" assembles each one at fixed stations, by hand, like a specialty shop rather than a mass-production line.
