Question Of The Day: What Is The Most Obscure Special Edition Car You Can Remember?

[admin]

“Special Edition”. Call me jaded if you will, but that phrase is synonymous with “we need to sell a ton more of these things to break even on the engineering costs!” and has been used so liberally, especially during the mid-1970s, that at this point the phrase has lost it’s luster. At one point, it […]

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[studemax]

Obscure? How about all those Neiman-Marcus editions - usually only 2 of them made, and offered for stupid money. You know, like a Mustang for a half-mill......

[Barry Donovan]

personal memory..

the special subarus.
the most bizarre one off attempts, and then disappearing...to be even more obscure.

I ended up building one, the net helped along with that.
in the 80s, they never put dual range AWD with the dual range engine in a wagon.
I look back at a 1 year paint code never used again by anybody, a 1 in 1500 rally engine, dual range tranny...
and a 450 foot pound clutch to allow it to move.

my dad went with a diesel eldorado that made more sense.

[IOWA552SLOW]

only ever seen one. how about the pontiac mera. few and far between. think factory kit car. Fiero with a ferrari 308 body on it. if memory serves me right, GM actually got sued over it.