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Pick your favorite iconic car from any decade....
- Thread starter Iridescentone
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Some people Tune up the engine because of that.
Which makes sense because the original engine had 602 cc with max 29 hp / 21 kW at best. I heard of GS(A) flat four engines (1,015 cc air-cooled H4, 1,129 cc air-cooled H4, 1,222 cc flat-4 air-cooled, 1,299 cc flat-4 air-cooled) put into 2CV's.
BMW flat twin R series 1100S engines. (95bhp, 0-62 mph in under 9s)
And even a Ferrari engine.
Which is similar to putting a Porsche engine into a VW T1 hippie bus.
Of course!Is it possible for a car to be any less safe?!
1967 AMC Amitron
In the 1960s, the big three were experimenting, but so was AMC. What's so interesting about the little Amitron concept was how advanced it was. It used advanced battery design, regenerative braking, aerodynamics, and lightweight materials to manage 150 miles on a single charge. And yes, you read that right - the Ambition featured regenerative braking fifty years before it became commonplace. AMC worked with Gulton Industries to build the concept and develop lithium-nickel-fluoride batteries. However, they also used more traditional nickel-cadmium batteries as lithium batteries didn't generate a lot of instantaneous power.
The Amitron led to a series of electric concepts in the 1970s as well as the production Jeep DJ-5E Electruck - a short-range delivery vehicle the U.S. Postal Service used in cities suffering from severe air pollution.
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Toyota’s concept RV-2 pointed to the company thinking about creating a unique RV and sports car blend in the early 1970s.
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Bizzarrini sure did have some influence on car designers!
So that's where the Inspiration for the fugly AMC Gremlin came from!
I went through a bunch of them in the '80s and '90s. No car on this planet rides like a D-series Citroen. Period.
Love of my life when it comes to cars. However, with the youngest one being half a century old now, the amount of headaches involved in keeping it roadworthy in this neck of the woods unfortunately makes the idea of owning one a non-starter for silly old me.
Hey! Careful what you say about those!
A friend of mine had one in the early '80s. Fortunately, the car is long gone and he's still a great friend of mine. 
I'd just like to mention that the "2nd-Generation" Corvairs (with the independent rear suspension!) were actually very safe, and absolutely excellent cars to drive in the winter (left lots of pickup trucks in the ditch behind, on the snowy hills in Kamloops)
* I owned three of them over the years, two 65s and a 66...
Well, he can always feel good that he avoided getting a Pacer.Hey! Careful what you say about those!
Before he got the Gremlin (not sure why he ever did) in the late '70s he had a '67 Barracuda.
While nowhere near as iconic as DS, my current ride might become a vehicle of interest in the years to come, being a first *really* small MB coupe while still maintaining the conventional RWD approach of its bigger siblings. Pretty sure these were never officially sold in the U.S.
I believe they were sold in the US. I saw a few of them on the road. Like their BMW counterpart, they didn't catch on and quickly disappeared.
BMW 318ti
You are correct and I was wrong. After digging a bit I found out that C230 was indeed sold in the States, unlike "lesser" models like mine (C200). Strangely enough, I lived in the same state where you seem to reside for over 15 years and never ever saw one...not in NY or NJ either.
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