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JENSEN INTERCEPTOR

You’re not going to mistake the Inteceptor for anything else, with those unique lines penned by Italian styling house Vignale. The Interceptor sounded as good as it looks, too, thanks to a Chrysler-sourced 6.3-litre V8 – later bumped up to 7.2 litres – which also endowed the Jensen with the sort of pace usually only available from madly impractical sportscars. For the really well-heeled there were convertible and FF four-wheel drive editions, the latter introducing the world to the reality of anti-lock braking – as far back as 1967.

There have been various attempts to reintroduce or update the Interceptor, the latest of which is a crazy Chrysler Viper VIO-engined edition called the Viperceptor.

It looked modern, but mechanically the Interceptor borrowed much from the CV-8 it replaced. So despite a high price, there were archaic leaf springs at the rear.