We don’t just write here at AutoJumble, we read too! Our Blog of the Week looks at the VW SP2, a relatively unknown Volkswagen sports car unique to Brazil. As well as some other great articles we have come across, we have your reading list sorted for the next hour or so at least!

>>>The Volkswagen SP2 Is The Sexiest Sports Car You’ve Never Heard Of – CarThrottle

Its not often we come across classics that we don’t know much about at AutoJumble, but this piece on the Volkswagen SP2 was truly edifying even for us! A lovely looking VW sports car which was unique to the Wolfsburg giant’s Brazilian subsidiary, its a shame the SP2 never made it over to Europe, even if it wasn’t very fast.

CartThrottle takes us through the slightly convoluted circumstances that lead to the SP2. It turns out that VW Brazil had a rich independent streak, creating numerous unique models that were unique to South America. Unfortunatly this seems increasingly impossible in an era of ‘world cars’ but we’ll content ourselves by looking into the possiblity of importing some SP2s or Gols (yes Gol, not Golf).

>>>When Supercars Raced At Le Mans – Jalopnik

One for the motorsport fans who miss the days when race cars looked like road cars, in fact, they were even road legal. The article explains how homologation vs. prototype racing regulations shaped motorsport and the supercar scene, before explaining how Porsche took the rules to their logical endpoint, trounced the competition and ruined the party.

What followed was a new wave of homologation specials including greats such as the Mercedes CLK GTR, and not so greats like the Nissan R390.