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Article: The toys of summer There's plenty of variety among 2002 sports cars
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 8, 2002
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Sports cars and the upcoming warm weather driving season are
perfect dance partners.
The old mystery was how the British came up with very appealing
1950s sports cars that introduced Americans to that type of auto when
cold, rainy England seemed like the last place where sports cars
would be developed. They mostly were driven from April through
September in the Midwest because they had marginal convertible tops
and heaters.
Popular British sports cars of that era were the MG, Triumph,
Austin-Healey and Jaguar. They were almost the only game in town if
you wanted a reasonably priced foreign sports car with a decent
dealer network. The German Porsche was costly, and the only
affordable ...