Skip to footer

Top 10 cars you've probably never heard of

These 10 cars are so rare you won't see them on any lot. Click through for a list of 10 cars you've probably never heard of.

3. Tushek / Renovatio T500

Tushek
The Tushek Renovatio, seen here, is effectively Slovenia's first sports car.

  • By Andrew P. Collins Contributor

You may have seen homemade replicas of supercars before; anybody can purchase a stylish body and accessories then construct a complete vehicle using the chassis and components from an economy car. The design of the Renovatio made its first appearance this way – as a kit called the “Attack Roadster” that could be completed essentially on top of a Honda Accord from the early 1990s

However Slovenian racing driver Aljosa Tušek had bigger plans for his vision of the design.

Adding a high-performance suspension system and V8 engine from an Audi RS4, Mr. Tušek has given the Attack body some bite to its bark, and effectively created the first sports car to be built in Slovenia. “We have engineered this joy into our car," he says.

With an acceleration of 0 to 62 m.p.h. in 3.7 seconds and a top speed of nearly 200 m.p.h., the Renovatio now has performance to justify the extreme styling.

3 of 10
Mark Sappenfield
Editor

Dear Reader,

About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:

“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.”

If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.

But you know what? We change lives. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in.

The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908.

We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. And we can prove it.”

If you’re looking for bran muffin journalism, you can subscribe to the Monitor for $15. You’ll get the Monitor Weekly magazine, the Monitor Daily email, and unlimited access to CSMonitor.com.

Subscribe to insightful journalism

You've read  of  free articles. Subscribe to continue.