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Dome Zero. Built in 1978 by Dome, a racing constructor, it was intended to be a limited-production road car using technology being developed by the race team, sold at a profit to fund said race team. Regulations killed any chances of selling it in Japan, so Dome cranked out a US-spec prototype as well. At that point,

Bernie Ecclestone claims, "I have never encountered corruption in Russia."

It was already half-way through it's life in 2004 but I'll put down the Ferrari 575M Maranello.

I don't know why but I adore it way more than I should.

A LEGEND PASSED DOWN THROUGH THE GENERATIONS

If we get 1000 stars on this comment we'll create a Baja Bug class within our series.*

[Nissan managed to get an S14 Silvia of unknown Nismo specification, an R33 Skyline GT-R Nismo 400R (one of 44) and an R390 GT1 road car (one of two) together for a press shoot back in 1998. Yes, I wish I was there, too. Photo Credit: Nissan]

On the one hand, as an enthusiast I should applaud the cheap horsepower. On the other hand, once you reach 500 horsepower is more really necessary? Of course as someone who grew up in the dark days of the 1980s, when 300 factory horsepower was astounding and 200 HP was excellent, I may just be getting old.

"Only old codgers with one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel drive these."