Mazda RX-7
The Mazda RX-7 sports car was the result of a remarkable confluence of disparate antecedents that somehow fell together to create something great. The characters involved in the story are so different, and the twists and turns in the narrative so strange, that you might be tempted not to believe a word of it. Yet, the car with an engine that many proclaimed would never work, built by a company founded to process cork, suddenly became one of the most successful sports models the United States has ever seen. Go figure.

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Auto show concept vehicles are the rolling equivalent of cotton candy. They sure look good, but often there is more style than substance. Some car companies actually deliver by throwing a well-received concept car into production, but after their days in the spotlight most concepts are relegated to a back warehouse, never to be seen again. Sadly, this might be the fate of many of the vehicles profiled here, but these vehicles are among the best concepts at the recent North American International Auto Show in Detroit.

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