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Pegaso Solo 500 concept truck, 1988

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Pegaso Z-102, 1951-1958. Powered by a 3.2L quad-cam V8 with a top speed of 150+mph, it cost twice as much as a contemporary Ferrari. They competed at LeMans and Carrera Panamericana, and "broke four official R.A.C.B. records including the fastest road car – with a speed of 243.079 km/h average in the flying-start kilometre".

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This is one of only seven Z-102 Saoutchik berlinettas built, it auctioned at Sotheby's in 2017 for around $850,000.
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"The Spanish government killed the Pegaso sports car once it realized how much it cost to make and sell."
 
Ford Escort MKII at Rally Gernika 2022, the blue one belongs to a local driver. The most common classic rally cars, I have more pictures from different rallyes and from the same rally but from different years
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Always found it interesting that Europe embraced the Escort as a performance car while in the US it was an "econobox" (of course the US didn't have the Cosworth option either, though in its later years there was a V6, but only with a slushbox). Was also marketed as the Mercury Capri, slightly sportier but still an Escort.

A friend bought a used Capri in the mid-seventies and he and his brother replaced the four-banger with a 289 and 4-spd from an old Mustang. Car was fast but didn't handle worth a damn because they didn't tweak the front suspension to account for the extra weight.

So was quite surprised when I started vintage racing in the eighties and encountered some of those Euro Escorts.
 
"Was also marketed as the Mercury Capri, slightly sportier but still an Escort."

After the European Capri and the 1974-78 Mustang II, the Capri name was applied to the Fox-body Mustang's Mercury sibling beginning in 1979. The Mercury Lynx was the counterpart to the Escort in the U.S.

As a sidenote; the Ford EXP and Mercury LN7 were dporty two-door hatchback spinoffs from the Escort and Lynx.

The rest of the story: Lincoln-Mercury Division of FoMoCo was advertised as "The Sign of the Cat" during most of the 1970s. Of course, that feline rode the (coat)tails of the Cougar which debutted in 1967 as an upscale Mustang and grew to be on the Thunderbird chassis. Typically, Ford's birds and ponies were paired with cats as Pinto/Bobcat rounded (no pun intended) out the Mercury offerings. Alas, the Ford Maverick compact car paired with Comet--a moniker applied to that marque's Ford Falcon badge-engineered Mercury.
 
At the time "Serial 1" arrived in the U.S. it's diminutive size may have signaled to some consumers that it was obtainable inside a breakfast cereal box.
That reminds me of the BMW Isetta. When I was a kid our local Cadillac dealer also sold BMW, for a while they ran a promotion - buy a new Cadillac and get a free Isetta. The local joke was the Isetta came in the trunk instead of a spare tire.
 
1967 Iso Grifo; Italian design by Bizzarrini, 400hp Corvette engine and drive train, top speed around 170mph. Over 400 produced between '67 and '72, they were never popular, being considered "half breed" sport cars on both sides of the ocean (early Panteras were looked on the same way); at one point you could buy one for less than $50k, today they bring ten times that.

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