Doug Meis, a lawyer in Winston-Salem, N.C., races a Honda S800 roadster -- there was also a coupe -- from the 1960's.
In 1971, Dan Gurney, the racecar driver, and Brock Yates, the automotive writer, drove a coupe model from Manhattan to Redondo Beach, Calif., in just 35 hours 54 minutes.
Another effort to give Pontiac some quick pizzazz, by importing a fast coupe from Australia and calling it a GTO, was less than a success.
The beauty of this feature is that they offer one-touch automatic raising and lowering, allowing drivers to convert their roadsters from a coupe to a sleek, aerodynamic convertible and back again in a matter of seconds.
Based on a Holden coupe from Australia, the GTO will have a 300-horsepower V-8 and optional six-speed manual transmission.
Hardened Batman fans will remember that the original Batmobile was just a teardrop coupe from the 1930s, taken from the comics.
Screen images from December 2005 show several cases in which eXact delivered unsolicited pages — in one instance, a review of a BMW Z4 coupe — from ForbesAutos.com.
First things first: It's pronounced GIB-lee, like the world "glibly" but without the extra L, and carries the name of two preceding models--one (a two-door coupe) from the late 1960s and the other a biturbo from three decades later.
Among the notable new hybrids are the sporty CR-Z from Honda, a two-seater that goes on sale later this year, and a speedy hybrid coupe from Volkswagen, which goes up to 141 miles per hour yet achieves an estimated 45mpg.
SATURN -- A deliciously quirky campaign, evocative of "Twin Peaks," heralded the introduction of a three-door coupe from the Saturn unit of the General Motors Corporation.
The Think city, a small electric coupe from Ford, looks forward, as does the Think neighbor community car, essentially a futuristic golf cart by Dan Sturgis and Mark Johnson of frogdesign, the prestigious design firm whose clients have included Apple Computer.
