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The final Audi TT hid its climate controls in plain sight — temperature and airflow dials are built right into the air vents themselves.
Ford calls the Dark Horse SC the successor to the Shelby GT500, built on the same supercharged 5.2-litre V8.
Ford built this Mustang's rear transaxle to mimic its own GT3 race car, then shaved its Nürburgring time by nearly eight seconds in five months.
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.
The 2020 Shelby GT500's dual-clutch gearbox can bang off a shift in as little as 80 milliseconds — blink-of-an-eye quick for a 760-horsepower muscle car.
The S550 was the first Mustang generation offered with an independent rear suspension across the entire lineup.
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.
The China-built Z was designed to replace two imported Lincolns there at once, the MKZ and the Continental.
Mazda's planned Alfa Romeo platform-sharing deal was cancelled in 2014, so Fiat Chrysler built the 124 Spider on the MX-5's bones instead.
The Z Nismo launched in 2023 with no manual gearbox at all; Nissan only introduced a six-speed stick for the 2026 model year.
The 2026 facelift swaps the hood badge from the Nissan logo to a standalone Z, styled after the original S30.
This Z broke with 50+ years of tradition by being the first Z car without a number in its name — every prior Z (240Z, 300ZX, 370Z…) used the number to signal engine size.
Nismo borrowed cooling tricks from the GT-R Nismo to squeeze 420 hp out of the Z's twin-turbo V6 — a 20 hp jump over the already-potent standard car.
Most cars add more driver assists over time. The ZD8 BRZ went the other way — Subaru deleted the assisted-steering feature outright to keep the steering feel honest.
The VB WRX never got a gas STI. Subaru killed it in March 2022, saying a combustion STI "would have a very limited shelf life" as emissions rules shifted too fast to bother.
Toyota built just 8 units of a wild anime tie-in GR86, each one liveried after a different WWII Imperial Japanese Navy battlecruiser as a collaboration with the Kantai Collection game.
Its roof, bonnet and front wings are aluminium, a weight diet aimed purely at lowering the car's center of gravity.
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 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.
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.
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VerifiedFIRST · WORLDWIDEFIRST PRINTONLY ONE IN VANCOUVERThe 2026 facelift swaps the hood badge from the Nissan logo to a standalone Z, styled after the original S30.
VerifiedFIRST PRINTPROThe S550 was the first Mustang generation offered with an independent rear suspension across the entire lineup.
VerifiedFIRST PRINTONLY ONE IN VANCOUVERPROThe S550 was the first Mustang generation offered with an independent rear suspension across the entire lineup.
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.
VerifiedFIRST · WORLDWIDEFIRST PRINTONLY ONE IN VANCOUVERThe 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.
