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Jan 2, 2025 · 5. Audi 72. The Audi 72 was something of a mish-mash of inputs from various German car makers. Its main body was a reworked version of the DKW F102, hence this car being referred to within Audi as the F103, and the engine was a Mercedes-Benz unit.
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1. 1941 Cadillac The Duchess. Taking its name from Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor, this one-off Cadillac limousine was created by Harley Earl when the duchess and her husband Edward came to the US after the duke had abdicated.
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2. 1960 Chevrolet Corvair. Infamous rather than famous, the Chevrolet Corvair might have been somewhat unfairly made the scapegoat for all the safety ills of the motoring sector in the 1960s, but it certainly wasn’t short of genuinely innovative engineering.
29 luxury cars of the 1930s - Classic & Sports Car
The lap of luxury. The 1930s were strange years for the motor industry. Most of the world was in a state of economic depression, and car manufacturers on the whole responded to this in an obvious manner, yet some, paradoxically, also produced models of previously unimagined luxury which still seem astonishing today, nearly a century later.
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2. 1923 Austin Seven. The Austin Seven was almost as significant in the UK as the Ford Model T had been on the other side of the Atlantic. Much smaller than the Ford, it was nevertheless still a ‘real’ car, and was largely responsible for the decline of the cyclecar industry in its home country.
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4. 1962 BMW 3200 CS. Another design from Giugiaro while at Bertone, the 3200 CS was to be the last in a 10-year line of cars built off BMW’s ageing luxury-car platform, and the last to use a perimeter frame, solid rear axle and pushrod operation for its V8 engine’s overhead valves.
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1933 BMW 3/20 AM 4 Saloon (cont.) Then, following a big gap in the car’s history, it was bought by a German architect in 1990. This keeper restored the saloon, then sold it to the current owner in 1996, when it was imported to Finland to join this classic BMW collection.
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1. Packard Eight (1924) Packard ranked alongside the very best in the world for pre-war luxury cars. Much of this was thanks to insisting on the best components and build standards for its models, as well as the supremely refined 5.9-litre straight-eight engine that sat on rubber mounts to further isolate it from the car’s occupants.
12 high-performance cars of 2004 | Classic & Sports Car
The class of 2004. Whether it was low-volume Brits knocking it for six, Europe’s luxury elite taking supercars and sports cars to the next level, or even Ford making Mustang great again, 2004 was a vintage year for fans of high-performance cars.
29 little-known German car makers | Classic & Sports Car
1. Adler. In addition to bicycles, calculators and typewriters, Adler manufactured cars during the first half of the 20th century. Its motoring portfolio was certainly diverse, since it included the mighty pre-First World War 9.1-litre 35/80hp, as well as the little 1-litre, front-wheel-drive Trumpf Junior of the 1930s.