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Ten millionth Mustang pays tribute to first production example of America’s top-selling sports car.

In its 70th Anniversary year, Lotus has built its 100,000th car.

One of the best-known racing liveries of all time – Gulf Oil’s orange and blue – is set for an official revival, with Ford confirming that their GT supercar will be offered in the iconic colour scheme for 2019. Labelled as the ‘Ford GT Heritage Edition’, the 2019 limited-edition was released in August to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Ford winning the 1968 24 Hours of Le Mans with a GT40 wearing Gulf Oil livery. The same car, chassis #1075, also won at Le Mans in 1969.

Aston Martin to build 28 replicas of the ‘Goldfinger’ DB5. Shortly after a genuine Aston Martin DB5 used in the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye sold for more than AU$3.4 million at auction, Aston Martin announced they’ll make every boy’s fantasy a reality by building a limited run of authentic replicas of the DB5 coupe from 1964’s Goldfinger – complete with Bond gadgets!

UK specialists take a classic E-Type Jag and give it a new millennium makeover.

Carrera 4-based, GT3-powered Porsche concept a strong possibility to reach production. As their 70th Anniversary celebrations roll on, Porsche has unveiled a speedster version of the current- (ie. 991.2) generation 911.

911S from Scandinavian crime drama sells for more than four times its estimate.

One of three special edition models released in August, Nissan’s ‘N-Sport’ version of the 370Z adds a distinctive cosmetic package to the sports coupe. The Nissan N-SPORT series has been popular with buyers in the past, so we have listened to a market that wants more and offered N-Sport editions on a wider range of Nissan nameplates,” said Nissan Australia managing director, Stephen Lester.

One-off Mustang pays tribute to American volunteers in the RAF during World War II. Each July, thousands of aircraft and hundreds of thousands of aviation enthusiasts from the US and around the world descend on Oshkosh in Wisconsin for the EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association) AirVenture air show.

This Batmobile replica was so good, it was purchased by the creator of the original.

From the first year of production, this 1964 Plymouth Barracuda was also one of the first to come to Australia. The Plymouth Barracuda remains one of the great “What Ifs” of the automotive world. As has been well documented, it was created along similar lines to Ford’s Mustang and actually came to market earlier, but was absolutely swamped by that model in the marketplace.

One-off Miura SVR restored and updated by Lamborghini’s heritage division. One of the rarest and most valuable classic Lamborghinis recently emerged from a 19-month-long restoration by the company’s Polo Storico heritage division.

As this issue was about to go to press, Craig Lowndes announced that he would be retiring from the Supercars series at the end of this year’s season after more than 20 years in the sport.

Uniquely-appointed, high-performance Mustang coupe priced from $73,688

To mark its tenth anniversary next year, the annual Sh*tbox Rally - where teams tour remote areas of Australia in cars costing less than $1,000 - will host its biggest event yet, with equally big plans for the fundraising target.

This year’s Pikes Peak International Hillclimb in Colorado, USA, saw Volkswagen not just break, but absolutely smash the outright record set by Sebastien Loeb is a custom Peugeot five years ago, as well as the existing record for electric vehicles set in 2016.

After what’s been described as a record-breaking event in Melbourne this year that saw more than 700 cars on show and almost 30,000 visitors, Meguiar’s MotorEx will return to Melbourne in 2019.

In 1984 Ford South Africa created its very own performance Sierra exclusively for its own market. Only 250 of these Mustang V8-powered rarities were made, and this is one of possibly just two to have made it to Australia.

Mini create a one-off car to celebrate “that” royal wedding.

With a Mini on pole from monster V8s and a field comprising all ages, shapes and sizes, the 42nd Historic Winton was a classic in every respect.

When it arrived on the automotive scene in 1928, DeSoto set a new car sales record that wouldn’t be bettered for another three decades.

The latest bespoke commission from McLaren Special Operations (MSO) is a 675LT that’s been modified in tribute to the McLaren F1 GTR ‘Longtail’ racers from the 1990s.