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Renault Alpine A110

he A110 power sliding on some rally I stage or other will come to mind – even though the marque was responsible for a whole raft of models, right up to the A610 of the 1990s, which would be the ...

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Daimler Double-Six Coupe

There’s something super-cool about pillarless coupes, but the configuration causes big headaches for those developing such cars, with refinement and sealing issues. That was certainly the case for the Daimler Double-Six coupe, which was a rebadged version of the Jaguar ...

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VOLVO 1800

Two-door coupe that looked impossibly suave and fast, but in reality its 1.8-litre four-cylinder engine wasn’t over-endowed with power. As a result, this is a car for cruising, rather than enjoying high-speed blasts. The 2.0-litre that came later provided a ...

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Rover SD1 Vitesse

When the Rover SD1 arrived in 1976. it was available solely with a 3.5-litre V8. The original hot version of this was called the V8-S. which evolved into the Vitesse. ny car that takes its styling inspiration from the Ferrari ...

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