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Chevy turbo sprint, owner said it has 77hp and weighs about 1,600 lbs, saw one in Detroit today it was the first one I’ve seen
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What a rarity. By the way, it's not a true Chevrolet; the Sprint was merely a rebadged Suzuki Cultus.
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*Qvale Mangusta, a rebadged DeTomaso Bigua.
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I remember those were everywhere in the late 80s, both in Suzuki and Chevrolet trim. Good times.
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How does that Chevy even exist? In Detriot? In the rust belt? Had to be out of town.
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It was originally in Oregon the owner bought it there.
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That makes sense. 👍 I'm simply blown away by how clean it is.
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Don’t remember how many miles the owner said or if he said how many miles it had, I just laughed when he said it has 77hp. The non turbo has 40hp.
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Bit of a misnomer, as it was never produced as either a De Tomaso or with the name Biguà. A De Tomaso Biguà prototype was indeed shown at Geneva in 1996, but due to financial constraints not aided by Alejandro having just had a stroke, the production behinning at the end of the last century was handled by Qvale Modena SpA, hence the Qvale moniker.
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Real V Escalade?! Or badge job, has 4 exhausts and a side V badge with different rims too.
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Badge job, Cadillac never made a Escalade V. The only V cadillacs have always been cars only, no SUVs.
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But the quad exhausts though. And it had a side badge too.
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You realize that someone can do exhaust modifications to a car right? People do quad exhaust modifications all of the time, there's a youtube I follow that installed roush exhausts to his Ford Mustang GT CS for instance. Badge jobs can still be done and some people often do more than just a rear badge.
EDIT: Someone with more knowledge than me can make corrections, but what you saw looks like an older version of this. It's an Escalade with a SLP kit equipped to it and it seems to sometimes include a "V" badge. Not an official V model made by Cadillac.
https://aspireautosports.com/cadillac-escalade/
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Yeah, Intermeccanica was pretty prolific and is worth looking into in general. They're probably best known for their Italia sports car, which appeared in the original Gone In 60 Seconds, as well as having crafted bodies for the Vetta Ventura and Apollo 3500 GT which formed the basis for the Thorndyke Special in The Love Bug.Intermeccanica Indra
Little Italian sports car with an American V8. Only 125 were built.
My personal favorite is the Intermeccanica-Titania Veltro prototype:
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This would have been the coolest (and craziest) Daihatsu Charade if it was ever realized. Called Charade DeTomaso 926R it was proposed to enter Group B rally along with plan for homologated road version but it never happened. Instead, Daihatsu made an alternative decision to sold a mildly tuned Charade DeTomaso for Japanese market only :
The engine :
https://rallygroupbshrine.org/the-group-b-cars/group-b-prototypes/daihatsu-detomaso-charade-926r/
The engine :
https://rallygroupbshrine.org/the-group-b-cars/group-b-prototypes/daihatsu-detomaso-charade-926r/
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The fourth-gen Charade featured a more toned-down Detomaso package, and frankly it's one of the most underrepresented hot hatches ever made. Although it only has 123hp, it drove like it had much more due to it's low weight of 900kg. 0-60 was in the high 7's. This was the predecessor to the Storia X4 and gave cars like the Toyota Starlet Glanza V and Peugeot 106 GTi runs for their money.This would have been the coolest (and craziest) Daihatsu Charade if it was ever realized. Called Charade DeTomaso 926R it was proposed to enter Group B rally along with plan for homologated road version but it never happened. Instead, Daihatsu made an alternative decision to sold a mildly tuned Charade DeTomaso for Japanese market only :
The engine :
https://rallygroupbshrine.org/the-group-b-cars/group-b-prototypes/daihatsu-detomaso-charade-926r/
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The fourth-gen Charade featured a more toned-down Detomaso package, and frankly it's one of the most underrepresented hot hatches ever made. Although it only has 123hp, it drove like it had much more due to it's low weight of 900kg. 0-60 was in the high 7's. This was the predecessor to the Storia X4 and gave cars like the Toyota Starlet Glanza V and Peugeot 106 GTi runs for their money.
Agreed that this variant of Charade is rather underrarted but as you said it was good little car. But, it would be different if Daihatsu gave a green light for the 926R might lift up their brand status that time. However it was built near the demise of Group B sadly while also the production cost was deemed too expensive I think. Still, good alternative based on original concept I think.
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1966 Porsche 911 Cabriolet. A one-off by Bertone.
Ordered to be build by John von Neumann, who was selling a lot of open top 356's in Southern California and as Porsche only had the 911/2 Targa at the time, and no real plans, or didn't want to disclose the information about a convertible being in the works, this came to life.
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What do you need with Jalopnik when GTP has a news section, traitor?
1966 Porsche 911 Cabriolet. A one-off by Bertone.
Ordered to be build by John von Neumann, who was selling a lot of open top 356's in Southern California and as Porsche only had the 911/2 Targa at the time, and no real plans, or didn't want to disclose the information about a convertible being in the works, this came to life.
As much as I love the "typical" Porsches, I find those obscure models that look nothing like what we commonly associate with Porsche absolutely fascinating. Beutler, Waibel, Glöckler, the 914 by Heuliez...love 'em.
