It’s really difficult for automakers to keep a secret these days, and they’re often incentivized for marketing purposes to even spoil their own surprises by offering early looks and test drives for journalists. That’s why it’s all the more impressive when you can look back and remember being genuinely surprised by the debut of a car, or when a new car made such a dramatic impact on the market and culture, it was like nothing that came before it. These are some of the most recent and coolest secret skunkworks vehicle projects that automakers have managed to develop behind closed, and locked, doors.
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