Iso Grifo
Iso sports cars were the brainchild of Italian industrialist Renzo Rivolta. After successful ventures in other forms of vehicle production, Rivolta decided to produce a sports car with a powerful US-built engine and homegrown Italian body. The best Iso model was the sublime Grifo. This elegant and dramatically styled coupe was introduced in 1964. And immediately became one of the market’s most advanced, desirable, and fastest sports coupes (via Autoexpress).
This was a bold claim since the middle of the ’60s in Italy. And it meant that there was serious competition from heavy hitters like Ferrari, Maserati, and Lamborghini. Still, the Iso Grifo was more beautiful and faster than anything else out there at the time.