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Today, high-performance special editions are downright tame on the highway. They offer full infotainment systems, air conditioning, and cruise control. But things weren’t always this way. In the 1960s, speed required sacrifice. The wildest muscle car-era special editions we...

Think of how a typical muscle car story goes, and it usually begins with a young buyer, a two-door body, and a salesman who knows exactly where the horsepower brochure is hidden. This one begins in a slightly different space, somewhere between a suburban driveway, a family vacation, and the part of Pontiac’s catalog where sensible people were supposed to stop reading.

Although Japanese car manufacturers have made a point of designing and building cars specifically for the US market, it’s still common for many to bring models from their domestic market over the American shores.

At Daytona in the late 1960s, the sound of a Chrysler Hemi at full throttle wasn't just loud. It was a message to rivals that Mopar was winning, and Ford's engineers knew it.

Audi just unveiled the Nuvolari—its first supercar, a 1,001-horsepower hybrid limited to 499 units with a top speed north of 350 km/h and deliveries beginning in the first half of 2027. But before the spec sheet lands, the name deserves its own moment. Tazio Nuvolari wasn't a marketin...