Car and Driver 10Best tested: Ferrari Testarossa, 173 mph Top-selling cars: Imports and domestics chosen by marque, not by place of manufacture. Price cap: $35,000 Fastest car tested: 750iL "V12", 158 mph Top-selling cars: Eliminated half domestic/half import rule as impractical. Price cap: $35,000 Fastest car tested: Chevrolet Corvette "ZR-1", 175 mph Top-selling cars: New rule: No more than two places per marque. Price cap: $35,000 Fastest car tested: Chevrolet Corvette "ZR-1", 176 mph Top-selling cars: Price cap: $40,000 Fastest car tested: Ferrari F40, 197 mph Top-selling cars: Price cap: $40,000 Fastest car tested: Lamborghini Diablo, 204 mph Top-selling cars: Institution of the 2.5x
Steam car from the Locomobile Company of America, located in Watertown, Massachusetts, and from 1900 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Locomobile manufactured several thousand of its "Runabout" model in the period 1899-1903, designed around a motor design leased from the Stanley Steamer Company. The company ceased producing steam cars in 1903 and changed to limited-production, internal combustion powered luxury automobiles. In 1922, it was acquired by Durant Motors and discontinued with the failure of the parent company in 1929. Perhaps the best-known and best-selling steam car was the Stanley Steamer, produced from 1896 to 1924. Between 1899 and 1905, Stanley outsold all gasoline-powered cars,