New Make and Model Pages: AMC Matador, BMW 327, LeGrand, and More!

We’re just past the sun’s apex here in the Northern hemisphere and have been seeing record-breaking auction volume, peaking at more than 1,200 live auctions on the site in the last few weeks. And of course, we’ve been busy adding updates to the ever-expanding collection of BaT make and model pages. Check out the newest additions, and be sure to follow those that interest you in order to receive notifications when new auctions go live.

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NEW MAKE PAGES

Bert Greeves founded his eponymous company in 1951 as a manufacturer of small cars and motorcycles. The firm was best known for its successes in lightweight motorcycle racing during the 1960s, but ceased operations in the 1970s after a devastating fire. The nameplate was revived in 1999, and is still in use today.

Diego Grullón formed DDR Motorsports in Miami, Florida, in 2001, to produced the LS-powered Grullon line of sports cars.

Cesare Isotta and the Fraschini brothers, Vincenzo, Antonio, and Oreste, began importing cars as Società Milanese Automobili Isotta, Fraschini & C in 1900. Four years later, the firm began producing its own cars under the shortened Isotta Fraschini name. After decades of building automobiles, the company was liquidated in 1949. The marque was revived in the 2020s with a focus on racing.

Named after a Roman god often depicted with two faces looking simultaneously to the past and future, Janus builds bespoke motorcycles that blend vintage looks with modern mechanicals. Its models carry names also derived from Roman mythology, and they now live together on a dedicated make page.

Kenworth is a portmanteau of its principal stakeholders’ surnames—Kent and Worthington. Since its founding, the firm has produced a wide variety of trucks that have carried countless loads over more than a century. Convoooy!

During the 1950s, Aldin “Red” LeGrand built Formula racers for himself and his three buddies. The effort proved so successful that LeGrand went into business as a constructor. The rest, as they say, is history.

Beginning in 1977, Arturo Magni collaborated with marques including Honda, BMW, Moto Guzzi, and Suzuki, and also built a handful of bikes bearing his own name. Following his death in 2015, the firm has been run by his youngest son, Giovanni.

Giovanni Parrilla dropped an “r” from his last name to found this company, which produced a variety of motorcycles from 1946 to 1967 including an experimental rotary-powered model.

Steve Saleen evolved from tuning Mustangs and other Ford products in the 1980s to producing its own supercar in the 2000s.

Joseph-Armand Bombardier began developing snow-going conveyances in the 1920s, and by the 1950s had introduced the first lightweight machine designed for one or two riders. Legend holds that the brand was originally to be called Ski-Dog, but a typo in an early brochure transformed it into Ski-Doo.

If their name didn’t give it away, Speed UTV is in the business of high-performance side-by-sides. The company was launched in 2019 by off-road racers Robby Gordon and Todd Romano.

Former GM engineer Tim Tang formed US Specialty Vehicles as a maker of military-style behemoths that also ooze luxury, like the Rhino GX and XT.

NEW MODEL PAGES

The RL stood for “Refined Luxury,” and was Acura’s flagship model across two generations from 1996 to 2012.

The AMC Matador lived a busy life during its relatively short production run from 1971 to 1978.

The RS began as an entry-level bike, while the RSV lineup broke into Superbike territory from the git-go. Both models will now live on one new page.

We’ve parsed out the Aston Martin DBS page as shown below:

We’ve also dissected the Aston Martin Vanquish page into the following:

The Aston Martin V8 & V8 Vantage page has been broken apart as follows:

Furthermore, we have distinguished the old Aston Martin Virage (1989-2000), which means we have a new disambiguation page for the Virage nameplate that aggregates both older and newer models.

As the four-door coupe segment grew in the 2010s, Audi created its sloped fastback A7 to compete with the Mercedes-Benz CLS.

The Buick Invicta was affectionately known as “the banker’s hot rod,” thanks in large part to the Wildcat 445 lump beneath its hood.

The BMW 327 was a prewar grand tourer based on a shortened 326 chassis. Its elegant design even returned after the war on the East German EMW 327 (and no, that’s not a typo).

The Estate Wagon moniker was used by Buick between 1977 and 1990 on wagon versions of the Electra and LeSabre.

The Chevrolet Beretta was best known as the two-door sporty counterpart to the Corsica sedan, produced from 1987 to 1996. The name itself also became the center of a dispute with the longstanding Italian arms manufacturer, though that’s a story for another day.

We’ve formed a page for the fourth-generation Chevrolet Tahoe, which was based on the K2XX platform.

Chrysler sporadically used the Royal nameplate between the 1930s and 1960s.

The Datsun 200SX lasted three generations before being adopted by Nissan in the late 1980s.

The DeSoto Custom and Deluxe now share a page within our model library.

Several Mitsubishi-based imports were sold as the Dodge and Plymouth Colt over the years, and all examples now share one model page.

The Town Wagon was to Dodge what the Suburban was to Chevrolet between 1956 and 1966.

Hey, Donzi Baby, cool it—we’ve made a page that anchors every iteration of Donzi Marine’s Classic lineup.

Ducati’s 848, the successor to the 749, was considered by many Ducatisti to be the bridge between middleweight sportbikes and the company’s larger superbikes.

We’re intrigued by the origins of model names around here. In this case, the Darmah took its name from the heroic tiger in an Italian folk story.

We’ve particularized the transatlantic Ford Escort page to include pages for the following variants:

The existing Euro Mk1 and RS Cosworth will also live under this new umbrella page.

Harley-Davidson’s stake in the Italian firm Aermacchi resulted in a number of rebadged models sold under the H-D name, including the Sprint and the Rapido. H-D Aermacchi bikes will live on this new page.

After Homer but before Christopher Nolan there came the Honda Odyssey, the reigning champ of Japanese minivans.

The Jaguar Mark V was the first model from the marque to feature both independent front suspension and hydraulic brakes.

We’ve created a page for the fifth-generation WL Grand Cherokee, which was introduced in 2021.

We’ve also added a page for the first car produced by Henry Leland’s Lincoln Motor Company—the Lincoln Model L.

The Lotus Eclat featured a fastback roof that increased trunk space at the expense of rear headroom. Practicality is the art of compromise.

The Mexico name was chosen because Mexican president Adolfo López Mateos once owned the 5000GT that served as the prototype for Maserati’s four-seater coupe.

Builders like Hayashi, Star Race Cars, Bahner Engineering, and Speed Smith Industries each contributed their own chapter to the Formula Mazda story. Regardless of who built these spec racers, they will now live on one new model page.

We’ve split the McLaren Ultimate Series into four new sub-pages:

The Mercedes-Benz 500K evolved into the 540K during the mid-1930s, while the 770K remained the marque’s flagship Großer Mercedes (Large Mercedes). They’re each amazing and exceedingly rare, so we’ve made one new page to house them all.

The L319 (Lastkraftwagen) served as Mercedes-Benz’s commercial truck, while the passenger bus variant was designated the O319 (Omnibus). The L319 and O319 will share one page.

We’ve formed a page for Mercedes-Benz’s W213 successor, the W214 E-Class.

The Mercury Montego was the marque’s counterpart to the Ford Torino throughout the 1970s, and the name was briefly revived during the early 2000s.

They say drive a Prinz, and you’ll be king—but you’ll need to find one first, so subscribe to this new model page.

Oldsmobile’s Curved Dash beat the Model T to the punch as the first mass-produced automobile.

Art deco styling will always be cool, and few cars wore it better than the Pontiac Deluxe.

Pontiac used the Grand Am nameplate sporadically between 1973 and 2005. It showed up on everything, from rear-wheel-drive midsize cars to front-wheel-drive compacts—all of which will live on one new page.

We’ve split apart non-turbo Porsche 993-generation 911s into the following pages:

Within the microcosm of restomod Porsches, Gunther Werks holds an elevated position with its modified 993s; they will live solely on this new page.

We’ve also created a page reserved for the backdated 911s built by German tuner Kaege on the Porsche 993 platform. Like the Gunther Werks 911s, Kaege Retro 911s will live on their own page.

The first-generation Porsche Cayenne has been parceled out into the following sub-models:

The Silver Dawn was the first Rolls-Royce to feature a factory-built body rather than one supplied by an independent coachbuilder.

The Saleen S7 holds the title as America’s first mid-engined production supercar. We’ve now made a page for it in the model library.

The American market received Toyota’s boxy bB as the Scion xB.

Subaru’s microvan wore many names around the world, including Domingo, Libero, Combi, Columbuss, Estratto, Vanille, E10, and E12. Here on BaT, it’s categorized as the Sumo.

Toyota transformed its minivan into the Sienna to better compete with offerings from automakers like Chrysler, Ford, and Mazda. By user request, the Toyota Sienna finally has its own page!

The TVR Tasmin ditched its four-pot in favor of a 2.8L Cologne V6, thereby morphing into the 280i.

The hand-built TVR Vixen, which was produced from 1967 to 1973, now has its own page.

For the past five decades, the Golf nameplate has adorned some of Vee-Dub’s greatest hits in the compact hatchback segment. This includes the American Rabbit as well as the spicier GTI, R, and R32 variants. This new disambiguation page houses them all in one place.

That’s it for now. Subscribe for alerts if you’d like to be notified when new updates are available. As always, if there’s something you’d like us to add to our expansive library of makes and models, drop us a line in the comments. We’d be happy to add it to the list!