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  • ...g the comfort and satisfaction of its owner and driver above all else, the personal luxury car sometimes sacrifices passenger capacity, cargo room, and fuel ec Personal luxury cars are characteristically two-door [[coupé]]s or [[convertible]]s
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  • The '''Apollo''' was a well-engineered United States [[sports car]]/personal [[automobile]] manufactured from 1962 to 1964 in Oakland, California. ...n answer to European GTs, such as the [[Aston Martin]] DB4 and [[Ferrari]] coupes. Brown, who was looking for a coachbuilder, met Reisner at the Monaco Gran
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  • ...ark''' was [[Lincoln (automobile)|Lincoln's]] 2-door [[Personal luxury car|personal luxury]] [[coupé]] from 1956 to 1998, except for 1980 to 1983 model-years ...VIII (1993–1998) was the last generation of the Mark and Lincoln's last [[personal luxury]] [[coupe]].
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  • ...eir ultra-cool sequential turn-signal feature. Rear window styling on the coupes took on a new "flying-butress" shape not unlike the Cougar's big-brother [[ | Personal Luxury
    40 KB (5,984 words) - 21:00, 12 October 2010
  • ...wheelbase, while the coupes were on a shorter 112" wheelbase. The 2-door personal-luxury coupe [[Buick Regal|Regal]] also debuted this year (in fact at first ...ach available as a two-door coupe or four-door sedan with the base and 350 coupes using a semi-fastback roofline with triangular fixed rear side windows and
    24 KB (3,712 words) - 07:33, 4 June 2010
  • ...owever, in being offered as a coupe only, aimed once again squarely at the personal luxury buyer. The decline in that market, though, was becoming noticeable t ...unavailability of a manual transmission, largely because the intermediate personal luxury market was the Regal's intended target, not the sports car segment.
    31 KB (4,502 words) - 04:25, 5 November 2010
  • The '''[[Lexus|Lexus]] SC''' series is a personal luxury [[coupé]] sold by [[Lexus]], the luxury division of Toyota. The fir The '''SC 300''' and '''SC 400''' were mid-sized coupes available in the United States with a 3.0 L inline 6 2JZ-GE (225 [[HP|
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  • ...962 model year, the Grand Prix name has also been applied to cars in the [[personal luxury car]] market segment and the [[mid-size car|mid-size]] offering, slo ...V6]] gains 5[[HP|HP]] with intake and exhaust improvements. All Grand Prix coupes get a sport package with five-spoke alloy wheels and dual exhaust. This is
    39 KB (6,042 words) - 09:36, 22 November 2010
  • | Personal Coupe The [[GM E platform|E-body]] coupes were converted to [[unit body construction]] and further downsized for 1986
    24 KB (3,384 words) - 07:31, 4 June 2010
  • |Class = [[personal luxury car|personal luxury]] [[Grand tourer|GT]] The '''Toyota Soarer''' was a [[personal luxury car|personal luxury]] [[Grand tourer|GT]] [[coupé]] sold by [[Toyota]] in Japan from 19
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  • ...ics (March 1981), the letters EXP were supposed to stand for Erika Project Personal car, where project cars are designated X. The "Erika" came from the code-na ...fficult problem, as they did not have the resources to produce three sport coupes. The logical choice was to drop the one that had the poorest sales figures.
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  • ...ditionnal approach of the industry. But the purchase of Lincoln was also a personal triumph for the Ford patriarch, who had been forced out of his second faile ...ith the introduction of an all-new model, the Lincoln Continental Mark III personal luxury coupe.
    41 KB (6,624 words) - 06:20, 17 December 2010
  • ...nation after the 1962 model year, shifting the Riviera name to Buick's new personal luxury coupe introduced in 1963. ...out changes in all of General Motors C-body cars. In 1975, all Electra 225 coupes had fixed rear side windows and center posts. 1975 also brought along a new
    12 KB (1,912 words) - 07:34, 4 June 2010
  • ...st Lincoln Continental was developed initially as [[Edsel Ford]]'s one-off personal vehicle, though it is believed he planned all along to put the model into p ...se over 1965. Product breakdown for the year consisted of 65% sedans, 29% coupes, and just under 6% for the four-door convertible.
    35 KB (5,074 words) - 20:28, 9 August 2010
  • ...t New Car, Saab 9-3 Arc Sport Sedan ($30,000 - $40,000 range), Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine, USA [[Category:Coupes]]
    20 KB (2,793 words) - 14:35, 18 September 2010
  • ...Merriam-Webster definition: "any of a group of American-made 2-door sports coupes with powerful engines designed for high-performance driving."[http://www.me ...often by altering or replacing the engine and transmission, or it may be a personal design by the builder, making the car look unique and unlike any car that m
    20 KB (2,933 words) - 14:27, 22 September 2009
  • ...c. The 1969 Trans Am would be a very limited-edition model, with only 697 coupes and 8 convertibles - making the '69 Trans Am one of the most coveted and co ...owly [[Ford Pinto|Pinto]] and the Mercury Cougar had now become a mid-size personal luxury car. Even Chevrolet dropped the Z28 this year, so the Trans Am had
    27 KB (4,282 words) - 08:33, 2 October 2010
  • ...ulture that gave rise to them and then grew up around them. This is my own personal take on the subject, and I'm sure others with more detailed knowledge (incl ..."Red Baron", the "T'rantula" (probably the two most influential on my own personal hotrod aesthetic), the "Pie Wagon," "Beer Wagon," "Garbage Truck," "Paddy W
    49 KB (8,295 words) - 17:09, 18 April 2010