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An unexpected gem was this Ford SVT Lightning Bolt Ranger Prototype, which MotorTrend drove in 2004—a skunkworks “what-if?” thought exercise in which a 5.4-liter supercharged V-8 from the full-size ...

But BMW did let its hair down with the i8 (top picture) hybrid sports car and even more so with ... Mainstream BMW models never inherited the i3’s interior design, but they did get a radical ...