Macau Grand Prix

The story revealed Hong Kong would be the first place in the world to have a service begin in color with HKTVB, and only the third or fourth place globally to have color TV.

The wireless station delivered, broadcasting in color from its launch on November the 19th, 1967, featuring the Macau Grand Prix and shows like Dr. Kildare, Lost in Space, Gilligan's Island, and Coronation Street.

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They launched their first car, the Mitsubishi 500, in the 1960s.

Its world debut was at the Macau GP.

Then the next car that came along, the Colt 1000, that took first to third in the Japanese GP and a whole string of that.

The Lancer was launched in 1973.