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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.
Production of the 8C Competizione was limited to 500 coupes, and Alfa Romeo allocated them by reviewing applications from prospective buyers rather than by order of deposit.
The Brera won a top Italian design prize before it was even a real car — Giugiaro took home the Compasso d’Oro for the concept that became this generation.
The 916 Spider's strongest naturally aspirated engine, the 192 PS 3.0 12V Busso V6, was never offered in its GTV coupe twin.
This Spider was built not by Alfa but by Pininfarina itself, on a platform shared with General Motors.
The mid-80s Spider's Quadrifoglio Verde trim went all-in on a single look: blood-red carpets and grey leather with red stitching, and it only ever came in three exterior colors.
The Atom began life as a Coventry University student project, not a factory brief.
Ariel capped the Atom 500 at 25 cars and still watched it set the Top Gear test track's road-legal lap record.
The DB AR1 was built only for the American market, sold roofless because Aston Martin bet sunbelt buyers would not miss one.
Aston Martin closed out the DBS with a China-only Dragon 88 edition: 24-carat gold-plated wing badges, a leather presentation box with a gold-detailed owner’s guide, and a run capped at exactly 88 cars.
This V12 Vanquish was the last all-new model ever built at Aston Martin's historic Newport Pagnell factory.
Every V8 Vantage engine was hand-built at Aston Martin's Cologne, Germany facility -- the same shop that assembled the V12s for the DB9 and Vanquish.
From 1998, Aston Martin would take your Vantage back into Works Service and convert it to V600 spec — bumping the twin-supercharged V8 from 550 to 600 hp.
In 2007 the R8 made Audi the first carmaker to mass-produce headlights lit entirely by LEDs — years before it became the industry standard.
This TT Roadster's rear spoiler has a mind of its own: it pops up automatically at 78mph for extra downforce and tucks itself away again below 50mph.
When Audi fitted the TT with a dual-clutch DSG gearbox in 2003, right-hand-drive Britain got there first — the world's first DSG built for the right side of the car.
BMW actually built a prototype E46 M3 Touring wagon, testing whether the car's wide rear wheel arches would fit a 3 Series estate body -- it never reached production.
BMW shipped the CSL on semi-slick Michelin Pilot Sport Cup tires straight from the factory — a street car that came with genuine track rubber.
The E90/E92/E93 M3 is the only standard-production M3 BMW has ever built with a V8 — every generation before and after used a straight six.
BMW 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.
The E60 M5 beat every rival sedan to a milestone nobody else has matched since: it was the world's first production saloon to use a V10 petrol engine.
BMW actually built an E39 M5 Touring wagon prototype — Titanium Silver with black leather — before killing it over cost, not performance.
The E63 M6 coupe wore a carbon-fibre roof — a first for any regular-production BMW, a trick last seen on the limited-run E46 M3 CSL.
The Z3 Coupe wasn't a boardroom-approved project — a group of BMW engineers designed it in their own spare time before the company officially picked it up.
When BMW gave the whole Z3 range a cosmetic refresh in 2000, the M Roadster and M Coupe were left completely untouched — the performance models didn't need the facelift.
The E85/E86 Z4's divisive, flame-surfaced styling came from Anders Warming — a Danish designer working inside BMW's otherwise very German design studio.
The E89 Z4 was the first Z-series car with a folding hardtop — which meant BMW no longer needed separate roadster and coupe body styles at all.
Fisker modeled the Z8's face on a car BMW built in 1956, then put it into Bond's garage in 1999.
This Alpina Roadster broke new ground in the US: it was the first Alpina ever sold through regular BMW dealerships, not a private import.
When the Z8 ended, Alpina's own Roadster V8 took over for its final year - and became the first Alpina ever sold through regular BMW dealerships in the US.
Alpina built its Z4-based Roadster S in Europe for just two years — 370 cars total, nearly half of them right-hand-drive for the UK.
This Australian hand-built supercar borrows an unlikely part bin item: its tail-lights are lifted straight from a 2000s Honda Integra DC5.
Bugatti shipped the Grand Sport with a spare umbrella as its emergency roof if the main top was left behind.
The Veyron's top speed of 253 mph was locked behind a separate key, so the car itself decided when you were allowed to see it.
Even tire service is exotic: Veyron wheels can only be fitted with their special Michelins in France, and the job alone costs $70,000.
Cadillac dressed the XLR's dashboard with Bulgari-designed instruments -- a jewelry house's name on a gauge cluster, right alongside a head-up display and adaptive suspension.
Its gauge cluster and instruments were designed by the Italian jeweler Bulgari.
Cadillac debuted the supercharged XLR-V in a commercial during Super Bowl XXXIX — and that year's Super Bowl MVP, Deion Branch, was given one as an award.
The Z06 paced both the 2006 Daytona 500 and the 2006 Indianapolis 500, the same year it went on sale.
The C5 ended production on July 2, 2004 — making it, alongside the Lotus Esprit, the last car ever built with pop-up headlights.
Chevrolet's weight-saving obsession on the C5 Z06 went all the way down to the radio: engineers fixed the rear antenna in place, permanently, rather than let it retract, just to shave a few more ounces.
The C6 broke a four-decade habit — it’s the first Corvette generation to wear exposed headlights instead of hidden units since the original 1962 model.
Chevrolet put a window in the hood of the ZR1 so owners could watch their own intercooler work.
A product of the DaimlerChrysler merger, the Crossfire shares 80% of its parts with the Mercedes-Benz SLK — German bones under American badges.
The very last Prowler ever built rolled off the line on February 15, 2002 — its niche wouldn't be filled again until the Chrysler Crossfire arrived two years later.
The V16T is the only production car ever built with four separate pop-up headlights, stacked two per side.
BMW's V8 was so much smaller than Ford's replacement that once Ford's engine arrived, the Guarà spyder could no longer be built.
A lighter aluminium chassis meant for this Viper's successor got shelved when Chrysler hit financial trouble — Mercedes later built on that stillborn design for the SLS AMG.
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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 PRINTPROHonda'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.
