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Although in general, prices of collectible cars have slightly recessed as a result of the recent recession, [36] prices for most high-end collector cars have held their value or continued to rise. [4] Since the 1990s recession, values of the most desirable cars have risen by at least 200%. [33]
This page is a compilation of sports cars, coupés, roadsters, kit cars, supercars, hypercars, electric sports cars, race cars, and super SUVs, both discontinued and still in production (or will be planned to produce). Cars that have sport trims (such as the Honda Civic SI) will be listed under the sport trims section. Production tunes will ...
Series 7 of Top Gear, a British motoring magazine and factual television programme, was broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two during 2005, consisting of six episodes between 13 October and 27 December. This series' highlights included a race involving the Bugatti Veyron, and a motoring challenge involving budget second-hand supercars.
The first car to achieve one million, five million, ten million and fifteen million units sold. By 1914, it was estimated that nine out of every ten cars in the world were Fords. [8] Lada "Classic" 1970–2012 [9] 17,750,000 [10] The number does not include the platform's archetype Fiat 124 and its other license-built examples (e.g. SEAT 124 ...
By contrast, automotive journalism typically reserves the predicate 'hypercar' for (very) limited, (two- to low 4-figure) production-number cars, built over and above the marque's typical product line-up and carrying 21st century sales prices often exceeding a million euros, dollars or pounds: examples would include the 1270 unit Porsche's ...
A sports car is an automobile designed for performance driving; however the exact definition is subject to debate. Most automakers have produced, or are currently marketing, some type of sports vehicles. This list is not meant to enumerate every manufacturer that also makes other types of vehicles or has other business units.
Best-selling vehicle nameplate – Toyota Corolla (50,000,000+ units sold since 1966) [64] Best-selling single model – Volkswagen Beetle (21,529,464 units sold between 1938 and 2003) Best single-year sales – 1.36 million – 2005 Toyota Corolla [65] Best single-month sales – 126,905 – July 2005 Ford F-Series [66]
The punitive tax on imported cars encouraged a wide range of companies to assemble their cars locally including Fiat, Ford and Renault. [1] From Ireland's entry to the European Union in 1973, the need for locally produced cars to avoid import taxes reduced and since the 1980s, production ended and all cars are now imported.