Themed Car Challenge (Season 1 , Round 4 - FINALE) [VOTE]

[KLinardo]

I'll let the image speak for itself. 1968 predates our history by one year, so I went with it.

[thecarlover]

[nialloftara]

Performance, reliability, prestige, all for under $14,000. The Sprite by Centauri, putting the car of your dreams within your reach.

[HighOctaneLove]

Presenting the Bogliq Frigate 351 GT-P!!!

Cheap, quick and very likely to pull the chicks, buy a Bogliq and you'll never feel short-changed!

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[mer_at]

You want a proper V8?
You want inexpensive maintenance cost?
You want comfort?
You want outstanding performance?
All in just one car?

Mars Engineering is proud to present the answer to these questions.
M.E. Hammerhead - fastest car to lap the Automation Test Track to date.

[RoyalStig]

My car;

[titleguy1]

[DoctorNarfy]

LOL Royalstig went all out with that 60s advertising there, love it.

[Leonardo9613]

It's worth noting that the car actually has 285 hp SAE net horsepower, if SAE gross calculations were used the car would probably have over 9000 hp.
And pop-up headlights, Charger style.

[Riso]

Elegance. Power. Comfort.
Introducing the Riso Motors Hornet V12.

[conan]

We weren't sure if this car is just a myth until this photo turns up.



There was a popular story about this car. The Whiskas Enfant Terrible. Many people said it was created as an experiment, or rather more as a show off case. Whiskas at the time was doing well, but they couldn't really make ground in the American market, unlike their British competitors Ocelot and Vanquist (Incidentally both then a part of British Motor Inc., therefore they competed against themselves). So Whiskas worked on a car that they think would do well in American market.

The car was not based on any Whiskas, but rather, a Conan Saloon S. It was not that the Saloon S body was any good (a classy but bland British saloon at best), but more because they didn't even have the resourced to design a new body, for they were developing another more sensible car at the time.

The Engine was bought from a famous Italian Tractor company which then was just starting to make their own GT car. They rebored and stroked the engine to 3625cc, designed a new cylinder head featuring Twin Cam and 48 valves, reduced compression, and then they installed BMi Mechanical Fuel Injection. All of that was not to make the engine more powerful, because in the end the engine produce about 10 less horsepower (or so they say). The engine was mated to a 3-speed Bork-Warren BW13 Automatic transmission popular in many luxury cars at the time. And the Suspension was a Hydropneumatic type sourced from a French company known for using them, which the report said made the ride the best of any car in the world, while also being to hold it's own on a canyon run.

Alas, the car went nowhere. The managements decided that it was not viable for a then small company like Whiskas to make such a machine. And they especially don't like that nearly all components are sourced from other companies.

Some people say Whiskas built 5 of them and run them to see their durability. And in the end with one of the weirdest practice ever in Automotive industry. They sold the cars used as a Conan, because all of the cars had Conan VIN number. Some people must have thought that it was a great joke or something. We have no actual evidence that any of them survived or actually existed in the first place, but it would be very exciting to find one in a barn somewhere in the South of France or Texas or Quebec or something.

[EnryGT5]

Here is the 1968 Yajiri! The first in a long line of high-performance halo cars

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[koolkei]

yeah. entering with the smallest displacement, slowest car on the field.....
bad idea? you betcha

no fancy ads this time around.


here's the
Komodo EXTO-200


this is a sportster that you can take out every weekend, or a car to learn how to drive, or a track day participant, and do it anywhere you want to. a sport coupe for every man that deserves it.
features includes Gullwing doors, chromed bumpers, double pop-up headlights, super-brite interior dome light, 27 gallons fuel tank, mid-engined magic, special sound tube for that extra roar, double chromed tailpipes, 172HP of awe.

Who said more speed takes the lead?

[Sebesseg]

[Dragawn]