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Conceived with performance, practicality, and safety in mind, the Mercedes-Benz W113 SL revolutionized the idea of a convertible. The German manufacturer’s SL (Sport-Leicht, or Sport Light) Class was introduced in 1954 when a road-legal v...
Stylish, luxurious, and more than capable of shredding tires, the Cougar XR-7 Cobra Jet 428 was one of the most interesting American-built convertibles on sale in the late-1960s. The origins of the Cougar date back to the early 1960s when both ...
Conceived to homologate a brand-new race car design, the first-ever M3 was also offered as a convertible, even though such a vehicle defied common sense. During the mid-1980s, BMW was heavily involved in various forms of motorsport. One of the ...
Big, beautiful, and extremely sophisticated, the first-year Eldorado was not just Cadillac’s flagship, but an automotive piece of art. In 1952, the Cadillac Motor Car Division was celebrating its 50th anniversary. About a year earlier, Ge...
If you own a convertible or plan on buying one soon, you should know that its retractable top requires special care and cleaning it properly can save you tons of money in the future. For a car enthusiast, nothing enhances the senses more than d...
Introduced in 1969, the Tans Am was officially a performance and appearance package that transformed the regular Firebird into bonified tire-shredder. Almost 700 examples were built during that year and out of those, only eight were convertibles. ...
At the time of its release in 1995, it was one of the most expensive production cars that money could buy, but nowadays, a used example in great shape can be had for less than an entry-level BMW 430i Convertible. The summer is in full swing and...
Conceived to flourish in the U.S. market, the gorgeous roadster was way too expensive, which led to appalling sales figures and a commercial failure of epic proportions that almost buried the Bavarian company. Decades later, it became one of the ra...
More than three decades ago, Chrysler executives came up with the crazy idea of merging drop-top freedom with workhorse practicality. Although the resulting Dakota Convertible was never a marketing success, it was undoubtedly one of the most intrig...
If you’re looking to spice up your summer with a gorgeous two-seat roadster but you don’t have the money for a new one like the Mazda MX-5 Miata, you should seriously consider the Saturn Sky Red Line. Back in the mid-1880s when Japa...
Although it became famous thanks to Hugh Hefner’s magazine, the name Playboy was also used by a small car company that introduced an interesting little coupe with a retractable roof no less than 75 years ago. These days, the concept of a ...
The most popular M3 generation and the most outrageous engine ever fitted into a production BMW never officially crossed paths. However, thanks to the folks at Brintech Customs, these two M icons came together, and the result is one jaw-dropping ma...
When Gordon Murray decided to build the ultimate road-legal supercar for McLaren, he ended up in Germany where he convinced BMW’s Motorsport division to design one of the most impressive engines of all time. Although the S70/2 was specifi...
Initially developed to dominate the American Le Mans Series GT class, the E46 M3 GTR morphed into an outrageous, road-worthy homologation special that starred in the original Need for Speed: Most Wanted video game. Whether it’s the 3.0 CS...
For the past fifty years, BMW’s M division has given us many iconic high-performance vehicles. Arguably the most controversial was the rare Z3 M Coupe, an example of which became even more controversial when it received a turbocharged Toyota ...
While the first M3 came with a motorsport-derived, four-cylinder engine, all but one of the subsequent iterations were equipped with straight sixes. BMW M broke with tradition during the development of the V8-powered E90 M3, but that wasn&rsqu...
A daring combination between Soviet-era design and modern German engineering, the Volga V12 Coupe is probably the coolest custom car that ever came out of Russia. Produced in three distinct series from 1956 to 1970, the original Volga (or GAZ M...
Known all across the globe for its extremely reliable yet mundane-looking vehicles, the Japanese manufacturer once built a street-legal homologation special that continues to blow people’s minds 24 years after it was introduced. In 1994, ...
The only hardtop coupe GT500 built in 1967, this prototype nicknamed Little Red is an important piece of Mustang history that disappeared for decades. It resurfaced as a pile of scrap metal when few thought it would ever be found, and was ulti...
The only series production V10 ever developed by the Bavarians, this brilliant powerplant was inspired by one of the most epic engine configurations in the history of Formula 1. For the 1995 F1 season, the Fédération Internationale...