Johnny's Garage - The Secrets of Cars

BMW 850 was an elegant and performance coupe made in Germany with the highest level of advanced in electronics for body and engine control at his time.  Its design is beautiful even today and its performance is still able to give emotions.

During the 70s Porsche was looking for an heir for model 911 and they think to make a car totally different in design and mechanical layout, with more room inside, more comfortable, easier to drive, with more performance. The 928 was able to center all the fixed targets by the Porsche team, but this fabulous car could not be the replacement for 911, that clients continue to ask to be produced. This GT car had a long life (1977 - 1995) and was developed from a 4.5-liter engine with 240-hp till a 5.5-liter engine with 350 hp.

Dodge Charger's second series, made during 1968 - 1970, was the car used to produce "The Dukes of Hazzard", the movie that between 1979 and 1985 counted 147 episodes. During production they used about 330 Charger: they broke about two cars per episode making jumps. On November 11, 1978, stuntman Craig R. Baxley with General Lee set a jump record during filming. The car was 7.0-liter V8 with about 425 hp, and always drifting.

Ford Capri, born in 1969 as the European equivalent of American Ford Mustang, with mechanical components from the Mk2 Ford Cortina, raised soon at commercial success.  In 1973 was sold the millionth unit, for a total of about 1.8 million units. This coupe "dressed" a lot of different engines with several different capacities and different layout: L4, V4, V6, and V8, from 1.3-liter till 5.0-liter. Really nice design, mechanical layout, and affordability.

Designed by Bruno Sacco, this Roadster (on the base of W124 body modified) this car was a Masterpiece of design, technology, and performance. Available with a manual and automatic gearbox, with L6, V8, and V12 engine and from about 230 hp till 408 (excepting AMG V12 7.1-liter and 7.3-liter engine with more than 525 hp). This last same engine was even given to Pagani for his Zonda. Even today SL R129 is an everyday beautiful car.

Bentley in the 80s was the sports side of the medal of Rolls Royce cars. Sharing engines, body, and design with Spirit of Ecstasy, they found their ways to raise performance, increase the pleasure to drive and singularity of their cars.

Born from sedan Opel Vectra, was characterized by beautiful and aerodynamic design, high performance, low consumption, great room inside, and mechanical affordability. It is certainly an undervalued coupe car.

Ford Escort Mk1, born as a small family car for European markets, became a world car winner of competition during the 60s, 70s, 80s, and even today in historic competition.  From 1.0 liter engine till 2.0-liter engine made by Cosworth with more than  250 hp. Well done Ford.

Mercedes in the 70s begin developing the new entry-level model for the Brand. Design by Bruno Sacco, multilink rear suspensions,  good aerodynamic, good dynamic driving, affordability, good construction quality: all Mercedes topics are here. The Baby S Klass was born.

Viper was born in 1992 with a V10 8.0-liter petrol engine, 6 manual speed gearbox, 2 seats, no hardtop, and no driving controls.  Human against machine full stop. 400hp and more than 600Nm of torque.