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BMW's little M2 pulled safety-car duty somewhere unexpected: not Formula 1, but the 2016 MotoGP season.
The first M2 was built in Leipzig, Germany. This one isn't — BMW moved G87 M2 production to San Luis Potosí, Mexico, a first for the nameplate.
The C8 ZR1 broke with every ZR1 before it — instead of a front supercharged V8, it runs a rear twin-turbo V8, making it the most powerful Corvette Chevrolet has ever built.
The ZR1X's 6:49.275 Nürburgring record for an American production car fell in April 2026 to a Mustang GTD Competition, at 6:40.8.
For the first time since the original 1953 Corvette, Chevrolet builds a factory right-hand-drive C8 — the only RHD vehicle GM assembles on the line rather than converts afterward.
The Z06's naturally aspirated LT6 V8 dethroned a Mercedes to become the most powerful naturally aspirated production V8 engine ever built.
Chevrolet bolted a front electric motor into a Z06 body to make the E-Ray the first Corvette ever sold with all-wheel drive.
The GT350's Voodoo V8 uses a flat-plane crankshaft - exotic Ferrari-style engineering that lets it scream to a higher redline than any other Mustang V8.
Ford calls the Dark Horse SC the successor to the Shelby GT500, built on the same supercharged 5.2-litre V8.
The GT350R was the first mass-production car fitted with carbon-fibre wheels, built by Carbon Revolution.
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.
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.
Porsche engineered a clutch only for the S/T; with a single-mass flywheel it takes 10.5 kg out of the rotating mass.
The Dakar holds its maximum ride height at up to 105 mph, and Porsche says its rooftop tent fits on the roof.
The GTstreet RS name dates to 2008, when it beat three-time defending champion Cargraphic at the Tuner Grand Prix.
Hans Mezger signed off on the DLS head in his final engine project before his death in 2020.
Singer founder Rob Dickinson was the frontman and guitarist of English rock band Catherine Wheel before he started rebuilding Porsches.
The 992 GT3's front suspension isn't shared-with-the-Carrera parts-bin stuff — it's an unequal-length control-arm setup lifted straight from Porsche's 911 RSR race car.
The Turbo Study was Singer's first turbocharged build, honoring the 930 Turbo on a 964 chassis.
Porsche detuned the Sport Classic's engine below the Turbo's output because the manual gearbox could not survive the Turbo's torque.
The 992 GT3 RS borrows a trick straight from Formula 1 — its rear wing has an active panel that opens and closes like an F1 car's DRS, controllable from a steering-wheel button.
To make room for its active aero, the GT3 RS merges three radiators into one angled unit sitting where the front trunk used to be.
Singer's turbocharged DLS wears bodywork modeled on the Porsche 934/5 racer, not a street 911.
The 718 Cayman GT4's naturally aspirated flat-six quietly introduced a Porsche first: cylinder deactivation, a fuel-saving trick the brand had never used before, on its hardest-core sports car.
The GT4's engine can shut down four of its six cylinders in traffic, a trick never before fitted to a Porsche flat-six.
The GT4 RS lapped the Nürburgring 23 seconds quicker than the regular GT4, a gap usually reserved for different cars entirely.
Roush's top trim doesn't just restyle this Mustang — the Stage 3's bolt-on supercharger pushes Ford's stock 5.0-liter V8 to 670 horsepower.
BRZ isn't a random string of letters — Subaru built it from Boxer engine, Rear-wheel drive, and Z for Zenith, the peak of the brand's sports-car ambition.
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.
Toyota and Subaru split the 86's flat-four between them, Toyota supplying D-4S injection onto Subaru's FA20 block.
This car wasn't always a Toyota — when Scion was shut down, the FR-S got rebadged as the Toyota 86 for North America starting with the 2017 model year.
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 VANCOUVERBRZ isn't a random string of letters — Subaru built it from Boxer engine, Rear-wheel drive, and Z for Zenith, the peak of the brand's sports-car ambition.
VerifiedFIRST PRINTPROThe S550 was the first Mustang generation offered with an independent rear suspension across the entire lineup.
VerifiedFIRST · WORLDWIDEFIRST PRINTONLY ONE IN VANCOUVERFor the first time since the original 1953 Corvette, Chevrolet builds a factory right-hand-drive C8 — the only RHD vehicle GM assembles on the line rather than converts afterward.
VerifiedFIRST PRINTPROBRZ isn't a random string of letters — Subaru built it from Boxer engine, Rear-wheel drive, and Z for Zenith, the peak of the brand's sports-car ambition.
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 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.
