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Legends

The definitive file on every car worth obsessing over — the full generational story, the numbers that matter, a proper gallery, and how the scene actually builds them.

9 legends on file · more incoming
Defender 110 By Himalaya (1992) The unkillable overlander

Land Rover Defender

The aluminium-bodied farm tool that barely changed shape in 68 years — assembled in the Cape, engined in Atlantis, and worshipped from the Karoo to the Congo.

Series I–III → South Africa 5 eras 22 frames
ICON Land Cruiser FJ43 restomod The reliability legend

Toyota Land Cruiser

The 4x4 that earned "goes anywhere, comes back" the hard way — from a 1951 climb up Mt Fuji to being the vehicle Africa itself runs on.

BJ / 20 Series → 250 / 300 7 eras 18 frames
Alfetta GT (1974) The Busso V6 coupe

Alfa Romeo GTV6

The transaxle-balanced coupe that gave the world one of its greatest-sounding engines — and gave South Africa a 3.0 V6 it built before Alfa itself did.

Alfetta GT → GTV6 3.0 4 eras 14 frames
BMW 325I E30 Coupe (1983) The Gusheshe

BMW E30

South Africa's own cult car — the 325i the townships named "Gusheshe" and built a motorsport around, plus the BMW SA specials the rest of the world never got.

325i 'Gusheshe' → M3 4 eras 26 frames
Ford Sierra RS Cosworth (1986) Homologation royalty

Ford Sierra

The aerodynamic everyman that spawned two legends — South Africa's Mustang-powered XR8, and the whale-tailed RS500 that broke Group A touring cars.

XR8 → Sapphire 4 eras 23 frames
Honda Civic Type R (1997) JDM icon

Honda Civic Type R

Honda's front-wheel-drive flagship, and one of the most modified cars on earth — every generation of the red badge, EK9 to FL5.

EK9 → FL5 6 eras 16 frames
Mazda Rx 7 Fb Savanna (1980) The rotary icon

Mazda RX-7

Three generations of rotary heresy — the featherweight sports car built around an engine with no pistons, and the only one of its kind to win Le Mans outright.

FB 'SA22C' → FD 'FD3S' 3 eras 26 frames
Nissan Skyline Deluxe Alsid 1 (1957) The Godzilla bloodline

Nissan Skyline

From a 1957 Prince luxury car to the R32 GT-R that got the world calling it "Godzilla" — the whole bloodline, before the legend went global.

Prince → R32 GT-R 6 eras 24 frames
Porsche 911 GT3 · 997 (2007) The reimagined icon

Porsche 911

The one shape that never dies — sixty years of the rear-engined icon, and the restomod cult it created.

930 → 992 5 eras 17 frames