4:34 Ultimate Cars: Ferrari Daytona Spider

Hand crafted and built for the California sun, the Daytona Spider is a true classic. But apparently this ultimate supercar of its era wasn't actually called the Daytona!

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sun, it's quite ironic that the car was very nearly banned from America . Yes, it's true! The original car had Plexiglas headlamps, which were banned by the US government for safety reasons. Ferrari's solution to

3:49 Future Weapons: Armoured VIP Vehicle

BAE's Commercial Armoured Vehicle may look like an average SUV but it can take hits from guns, grenades and roadside bombs - and even return fire.

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Darren Flynn is the director of sales for North America .

2:52 Greatest Ever Motorcycles - Triumph Bonneville

With Marlon Brando's endorsment in The Wild One and loads of power, the Bonneville was the bike to have if you were a bad boy.

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They were the coolest bikes in America .

5:14 The Secret Life of Formula One - Drivers and Mechanics

In the early days of F1, the driver was the main link between the car and the mechanic.

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manager, Alfred Neubauer. Impressed after seeing the communication of race teams in America , he imported their ideas. The Mercedes team became famous for their pit-to-car strategies. Drivers gained huge advantages for Neubauer's secret signals with

3:39 Ultimate Cars - Racers - Ford GT40

After a business deal with Ferrari went sour, Henry Ford designed to build a car that could 'Kick Ferrari's ass'

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GT40.5. So let's not because the GT40 is the greatest racing car America has ever made, and it's all down to this 1 man, Enzo Ferrari.

4:28 Greatest Ever Sports Cars - No. 8 - Corvette Stingray

It's americana on wheels, the raw power of the Corvette Stingray comes in at number eight.

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I mean, it's got America written all over, United States written all over it. It's a kind of stars and stripes in automobile form, really. And you

this in our droves because it is that. You know, often what America wanted which was fast, straight-line performance, reasonable reliability at low cost, and a thumping-great V8.

I say to them. You know, we're all a bit crude in America , but were crude but effective. How's that?

4:49 Greatest Ever Sports Cars - No. 9 - Nissan Skyline

At number nine it's the Nissan Skyline: the hacker's supercar.

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so fast, so intimidating, it wasn't allowed on the streets of North America .

Skyline has become a much better match for the racetrack in North America . The few that are imported usually end up in competitions like this one. It's called drifting.

4:32 Greatest Ever Sports Cars - No. 5 - Ferrari Enzo

In at number five and named after the great Enzo Ferrari himself, the Enzo is the culmination of Ferrari's years of racing development.

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Here in America we're in the wrong place to own one.

1:34 Future Cars - Biofuels

Bio diesel is vegetable oil - put it in your diesel engine and you're good to go!

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with farm production and recycled vegetable oil, biofuels could provide 15% of America's total diesel use.

6:05 Mercedes - It's in the Details

Meet the men who design and build the cars. Go inside the Mercedes Benz factory to find out how form really does follow function.

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One design studio is in America , near Los Angeles; one in Asia, in Tokyo; and the last one in Como, Italy; but the last one is special, established