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7 Old and New Cars You Can Buy Civilians That Are Longer Than a Sherman Tank

Vanderwolf Images/Shutterstock Love it or hate it, cars these days are getting bigger and heavier. research by European Union for Transport and Environment Found that new cars are getting wider at a rate of 0.4 inches (1 cm) every two years. Increased safety features such as airbags

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Good enough for the Ford Mustang Dark Horse, good enough for the Sherman Tank

Camrick/Getty Images 500-horsepower V8. It sounds good, doesn’t it? This is a common goal of benchmark car builders, especially given how accessible it can be to use modern fuel-injected platforms like Ford’s Coyote and GM’s LS engines in streetable builds. Finally, when the first generation of the

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The Renault 5 Turbo was a hot hatch that could go more than 800 miles on a single tank of gas

Nine inches wider and three inches lower than the standard R5, the Renault R5 Turbo was never meant to look subtle. In fact, this little hatch had a mid-mounted turbo four-cylinder in place of the rear seats. Naturally, a car as aesthetically and functionally as wild as the R5

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