Classic Dream Car : Mercedes Benz 300SL Gullwing

The Mercedes Benz 300SL Gullwing was introduced in 1954 as a two-seat, closed sports car with distinctive doors. Later it was offered as an open roadster. It was the fastest production car of its time.

Built by Daimler-Benz AG and numbered internally W198 the injection version was from the road to (somewhat loosely) on a very successful company competition-only sports car of 1952, the slightly less powerful carbureted Mercedes-Benz 300SL (W194).

The road model was suggested by Max Hoffman. Designed for customers in the booming U.S. market post-war period in 1954 New York Auto Show was presented, in contrast to earlier models that was introduced at the Frankfurt or Geneva shows. The Mercedes-Benz fashion, the “300″ on the three-liter engine displacement. The “SL” stand for “Sport Light” (Light Sport).

The Mercedes Benz 300SL was best for both its distinctive gullwing doors and the first gasoline-powered cars are known, equipped with gasoline direct injection into the combustion chamber. The Gull Wing version is available from March 1955-1957. The production of the roadster in 1963 ended with the introduction of the 230SL.

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Sports Car : Porsche Panamera

The Porsche Panamera (type number 970) is a four-door, four seater luxury sedan, launched 2009th It is front engine rear wheel drive with a four-wheel version also available. Although a sedan, several sources described as a sedan or a limousine.

The Panamera’s name is derived, such as the Porsche Carrera line, from the race Carrera Panamericana. Earlier prototypes and concepts of the four-door sedan, like the 1991 Porsche 989 prototype, the prototype four-door 911 is based, and built the C88 concept (a small saloon car in Germany and sold in China), was never produced taken.
The Panamera is generally considered the long-awaited fruit of the Porsche 989 concept developed in the late 1980s, some argue that it also presents as a successor to the two-door 928, but you can plan for a new 928 and on.

The Porsche Panamera Panamera S and as a direct competitor in the full-size luxury sedan like the BMW 7-Series and Mercedes-Benz S-Class sold. The high performance Panamera Turbo competes in the ultra-luxury segment, in addition to the “exotic” as the Bentley Continental Flying Spur, Aston Martin Rapide, Maserati Quattroporte and. Similar cars include the BMW 5-Series Gran Turismo Panamera and the Mercedes-Benz CLS-Class.

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The Template for all supercars : Lamborghini Miura 1966 – 1972

The Lamborghini Miura is a sports car from Italian automaker Lamborghini produced 1966-1972. The car is considered by many to have started the development of high-performance two-seat mid-engine sports car. During the mid-engine layout has been successfully used in competition cars like the Ford GT40 and Ferrari 250 LM Le Mans, the Miura was the first viable road sports car layout. The Template for all supercars.

The Lamborghini Miura was originally developed by Lamborghini Engineering team, the car in their spare time, against the will of its founder Ferruccio Lamborghini, to produce a preference powerful yet quiet Grand Touring cars, instead of racing-derived material was produced by design was the local rival Ferrari. If the rolling chassis at the 1965 Turin Auto Show was presented, and the prototype P400, which in 1966 debuted at the Geneva Show, the car got a stellar receiving showgoers and trade press alike, who were impressed by a sleek designer Marcello Gandini , and Auto-revolutionary design.

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Rally Champ Cars : Subaru Impreza WRX STi : Ken Block Drifting

The Subaru Impreza WRX STi (formerly STi WRX, which officially changed in 2006 to STI) is the highest standard-edition Subaru Impreza compact car line in the trim produced by Japanese automaker Subaru.

In the late 1980s, Subaru created the Subaru Tecnica International (STI) division for the development for the FIA World Rally Championship and other motorsport activities coordinated. After the company had grown, the division was the high-performance consumer versions of the Subaru Impreza WRX, an all-wheel drive car with a turbo boxer engine, creating what the development of the Impreza WRX STi. The Subaru World Rally Team has a race prepared version of the WRX STI rally as a platform to trim since the model used in creation.

The Subaru Impreza WRX STi was originally sold only in Japan. It was later officially in Oceania (Australia had in 1999 with the STi version V). In 2001, Europe received STi with the change of the chassis. After seeing the Impreza WRX sell much better than planes, expects Subaru began selling the STI in North America in the spring-summer 2003 as a model 2004th

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Legendary Offroad : Land Rover Defender

The Land Rover Defender (the first Land Rover and Land Rover Ninety One Ten) is a British all-wheel drive off-road SUV.
The product of the evolution of the original Land Rover Series I was launched in 1948, uses the simple but robust base of a ladder frame chassis and aluminum body and comes in a variety of body types from the manufacturer, and many other specialized versions available as fire trucks.

Although perhaps best associated with the expeditions Defenders are used in different ways in agriculture, industry and the military. But in recent years, the model is always more than one private car was used.

The model was established in 1983 as Land Rover One Ten and ninety, the numbers are passed to the wheelbase in inches. The song was written in full in advertising and in the manuals and instructions, and made the vehicle above the grille and badge, the Land Rover 90 “or reading” Land Rover 110 “with the number displayed numerically. The Ninety and One Ten replaces the previous Land Rover Series and at the time of introduction was the only other model in production Land Rover Range Rover.

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