I'm sure much of the car's notoriety came from this:

Let's take it to the consumerist extreme - if you're going to fake the engine sound, put options in the infotainment system menu, and let me pick which engine I'm in the mood for! Program it to fake a Merlin V12, Cobra 427, heck, why not an F16 jet sound!

Or, perhaps, Hollywood is telling us that they agree with Jalopnik, and that real super cars need a stick shift, even if rich super car buyers are incapable of operating a manual transmission and won't buy anything but an automatic or a flappy paddle electric shifter.

This guy ordered a Miata shooting brake directly from Mazda. Learn how.

Saoutchik also bodied this Delahaye 175S which was owned by Diana Dors.

Is that Tom Petty?

This is the only Riff Raff I know.

Really expensive and really slow, but ok, pretty

911. All years. Just look at the current prices.

Eleanor.

The FD RX-7. Was originally priced (and designed) to compete with Porsches. It did. But you don't get that sort of brand privilege from Mazda, even at the time. People were simply unwilling to spend so much money on a car from a lesser brand.

Great pics. Did they both get a free bowl of soup when they bought those hats??

I hope it comes in beige!

Muria in the beginning of The Italian Job.

In the future, all photos will include the photographer in the frame somewhere as the older generations that knew how to take photos with the camera pointed in the other direction die off, leaving behind people who have only ever used cameras for selfies.

Would you look at that, just look at it. LOOK AT IT!!!!

I read the headline as :

"No article about an American driver is complete without mentioning Phill Hill, who won the world championship for Ferrari back in 1961. No pressure, Alex." .... or Mario Andretti in 1978