Top 10: Classic car anniversaries of 2015
With the end of 2014 fast approaching, it’s time to look ahead to the New Year – and to take a look at some of the classics that will be celebrating major anniversaries in 2015. It’s a list that took some whittling down, but we reckon we’ve got ten top choices for you.
Next year marks 50 years of the MGB GT, Sunbeam Tiger and Peugeot 204 – and no doubt there’ll also be 20th birthday celebrations arranged for the MGF and Fiat Barchetta. But sadly they didn’t make it. Read on to see what did…
By Paul Guinness, Contributor
Renault 16: 50 years
Nobody should underestimate the importance of the Renault 16 when it comes to reshaping family-style motoring, for this front-wheel drive five-door hatchback was a world away from the traditional three-box designs it found itself up against. It looked unlike anything else when it arrived in 1965, and went on to enjoy a 14-year career.
The 16 was phenomenally spacious, comfortable and practical, and paved the way for other manufacturers to launch their own family-size hatches. The Maxi, Passat, Alpine and innumerable others that followed all owed their existence to the innovation shown by Renault in the mid-1960s.
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