Ok I Know its German but....
Developed by engineers in secret at weekends and in the evenings just because the wanted to build a brilliant car to drive.
The Marketing men said "it will never sell"
after much nagging they reluctantly agreed to build 5000 in a limited run for homologation, they ended up building 500O a month.
It defined a new class of car the "Hot Hatch" copied by other manufacturers
The original GTI
No longer "the king" but forever "the Daddy"