The 10 Most Ridiculous Special Edition Cars

You will not believe how you could order an AMC Javelin in 1972. 

A couple years after an automaker introduces a model, its sheen of novelty wears off and with it, sales. News flash: consumers love what’s hot and new. Instead of undertaking huge project of redesigning a car, though, companies will instead release special editions: shined up versions of the old car. Some—like the 2000 Mustang Cobra R—are legendary. Others are tacky marketing ploys. We sorted through the lot to come up with the ten most ridiculous, for better or worse, tacky or magnificent. 

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