Lord Sterling Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 ...Suburu Imprezza STi ?????I'm sure there was a Peugeot with the letters STD but I probably imagined it...Vauxhall did a diesel version of the Vectra called the Vectra TDS, and some people did think it was indeed tedious. Lord Sterling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 Wasnt there a thread on here a while ago about weird names given in badly translated English to Japanese home market special editions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garycox Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 No pop-out sunroof, no Poundland wheeltrims, not even the model name on a tacky sticker Really? My uncles had such luxuries as a sunroof, a sticker on the back and seat material which was slightly more colourful than usual... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 ' I enjoy my Vauxhall Agila Enjoy almost as much as I enjoy................'Being kicked down a fire escape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pogweasel Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 ' I enjoy my Vauxhall Agila Enjoy almost as much as I enjoy................'...GOUGING OUT MY OWN EYES WITH A RUSTY SPOON' ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandamonium Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 ... plucking my testicle hairs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michiel Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 ... any other newish car. How about an Opel Agila Flexx Cool/Maxx Cool/Essentia/Color (sic) Edition/Njoy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnthonyG Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 I believe 'Trend' is a German or Belgian market Ford spec level name, like Edge and Zetec in the UK. Was there a 80's deodorant/shaving cream/aftershave named 'Insignia'? This occured to me as I was browsing Auto Express today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 I'm sure there was a Peugeot with the letters STD but I probably imagined it.That was the STDT. 405 and 205. I thought Innocenti Small was a bit of a daft name (albeit an accurate one), but then I suppose an Italian company calling a car the Small makes as much sense as a British company calling a car the Mini.Talking of Minis, I thought the Red Hot special edition was pushing things a bit - no car with a 40bhp 998cc A-series is ever going to be red hot, or even lukewarm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Ted Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Clio "Night and Day" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Ross Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Didn't Saab recently release a "Turbo X" ??? I'm certain I saw one, and thought it said Turdbox on the boot........................To counter that, A driver at work saw a heavilychavved up Punto yesterday, and the badge had been fooked about with, it said "Cunto"Reminded me of the time I pissed about with the individual badges on a later Escort...............I wrote Scrote on the boot (using the genuine badges). Generated mirth wherever it parked and rusted........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk2_craig Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 France got a pov-spec Renault 5 too, but whereas ours was badged "Campus", theirs was badged "Five"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pogweasel Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Wasn't there some kind of twattish 'Famous Five' R5? Total bollocks of course because (a) the famous five were all stuck up twats who only existed in a fictional 1950's middle-class utopia ( one of them was a dog. I will give an experienced judgement that no matter how loyal and 'intelligent' a border collie may be, it really can't be arsed spending it's days trailing round after 4 ginger-beer-scoffing fucktards © what on earth would some french peasant wagon have to do with Best Of British Blyton anyway? The famous five would surely have travelled everywhere in some mad auntie's Austin A35, none of that foreign muck here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pogweasel Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Have we lambasted the Ford Fiesta 'Flight' yet?The original incarnation of this was quite a car... my grandfather bought one new circa 1991, and I was most impressed at the time, XR2i wheels + Ghia seats + electric windows + boggo door cards + rasping cruddy CVH "power". Oh and some lovely concorde/tupelov144-esque decals on the doors. At the time, cool, now I realise it was just an excuse to nail together a selection of over-ordered bits and flog it at a knockdown price to daft punters. Oddly, later versions of the 'flight' seem perfectly normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk2_craig Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 I think most Fiesta special editions ever produced have been lambasted in this thread!! :lol:I found (circa 1998) in an Edinburgh scrapyard a lightly rolled, French-registered Mk4 Fiesta, trimmed to the same spec as our ultra-pov Encore model. It carried "Fun" badges on the front wings, which was stretching the truth a little bit when one takes into account the old 8 valve ohv engine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle silvia Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 My first car was a Vauxhall Nova 1.2 "Majestic" and it was anything but!! It came with GTE spec tinted glass and a massive stripe down the side which I removed anyway!! Royal mode of transport I think not!! I did love it though!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotford00 Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 There's one thats come to mind... Yugo Sana?. If I remember correctly in the States a business man called Bricknell was involved with importing them. When it was first announced it was to be called the Florida... That was until the State of Florida heard about it and kicked up about it. The same guy also built a sort of de tomaso like coupe with gull wing doors, that too sold like a bag of crap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashmicro Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 Vauxhall Nova "Merit", a vehicle truly without any kind of Merit whatsoever. Although, it has to be said that my view may be slightly clouded by the fact that I almost got killed in one when the back axle fell out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 There's one thats come to mind... Yugo Sana?. If I remember correctly in the States a business man called Bricknell was involved with importing them. When it was first announced it was to be called the Florida... That was until the State of Florida heard about it and kicked up about it. The same guy also built a sort of de tomaso like coupe with gull wing doors, that too sold like a bag of crap Wasn't his name Bricklin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon M Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_BricklinI think most Fiesta special editions ever produced have been lambasted in this thread!! Have we done the Ford Fiesta Bonus yet? I think whoever named that should have replaced the 'Bo' with an 'Mi' to be honest. (ah, I see we've mentioned the Escrot, but they did a Fiesta one too.)Mitsubishi Carisma? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratdat Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 There's one thats come to mind... Yugo Sana?. If I remember correctly in the States a business man called Bricknell was involved with importing them. When it was first announced it was to be called the Florida... That was until the State of Florida heard about it and kicked up about it. The same guy also built a sort of de tomaso like coupe with gull wing doors, that too sold like a bag of crap Wasn't his name Bricklin?Yeah it was Bricklin. By a curious coincidence, I watched "The Junkman" last night which was H.B.Halicki's follow up to the original "Gone in Sixty Seconds" film. The first stunt sequence in it features a Bricklin! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotford00 Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 Terribly red faced Wuvvum and Ratdat, of course youre correct and I was obviously had a premature senior moment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk2_craig Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 Most Fiesta special editions prior to the mid 1990s did give you something visibly different from the model it was based on, even if that was limited to four white 13 inch wheeltrims or a different bootlid sticker. With this exception of the utterly half-arsed 1988 Firefly of course; a Radiant Red four-speed 1.1 Ghia in every single respect save for the replacement of two wing crests and two tailgate badges with one decal. This one has spoiled my argument due to some crummy aftermarket alloyz, but you get the idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Sterling Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 ....To counter that, A driver at work saw a heavilychavved up Punto yesterday, and the badge had been fooked about with, it said "Cunto"... Reminded me of the time I pissed about with the individual badges on a later Escort...............I wrote Scrote on the boot (using the genuine badges).....That reminds me that I've seen some Escrote's running around with with "Sorted" on the boot also using the genuine badge letters, along with the "D" from "Diesel", Tossers. Lord Sterling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volksy Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 I seem to remember a Fiesta DASH from ford brochures of old, linked to some sort of fashion outlet i think. The brochure IIRC had lots of overly happy looking people dressed in white tennis type clothing obviously happy with their new Fiesta... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timewaster Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 ....To counter that, A driver at work saw a heavilychavved up Punto yesterday, and the badge had been fooked about with, it said "Cunto"... Reminded me of the time I pissed about with the individual badges on a later Escort...............I wrote Scrote on the boot (using the genuine badges).....That reminds me that I've seen some Escrote's running around with with "Sorted" on the boot also using the genuine badge letters, along with the "D" from "Diesel", Tossers. Lord SterlingA guy who works in the local bodyshop returned a mates Escort 55 van after a job with the letters respaces to read TO55ER SC.Said tosser didnt notice for weeks. Edit: Forgot to mention I followed a Nissan Almera Elegance this afternoon. It was, of course anything but elegant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete-M Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 Vauxhall Nova "Merit", a vehicle truly without any kind of Merit whatsoever. Although, it has to be said that my view may be slightly clouded by the fact that I almost got killed in one when the back axle fell out.I'll have you know that my mums old 1.2 Merit 4dr was capable of truly silly cornering stunts. Quality old shitter that. Maroon, beige interior, bought by mum when 4 years old with 22k miles on the clock. Soldiered on, thrashed to within an inch of its life for another 78k miles, serviced every few years, cambelt at 70k, never washed or cared for, cammy as hell, but possibly the most reliable car I've ever known. I think in the 8 or 9 years my mum had it the only things replaced were the cambelt once, loads of tyres and front brake pads, a headlight, a battery, the vacuum advance module and the exhaust. Astonishingly crap, but fun at the same time.C224 PKA - R.I.P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew e Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 There's one thats come to mind... Yugo Sana?. If I remember correctly in the States a business man called Bricknell was involved with importing them. When it was first announced it was to be called the Florida... That was until the State of Florida heard about it and kicked up about it. The same guy also built a sort of de tomaso like coupe with gull wing doors, that too sold like a bag of crap Wasn't his name Bricklin?Yeah it was Bricklin. By a curious coincidence, I watched "The Junkman" last night which was H.B.Halicki's follow up to the original "Gone in Sixty Seconds" film. The first stunt sequence in it features a Bricklin! My most prized betamax vid ever! It even has a speeded up DS chase sequence - tres bizzare! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratdat Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 My most prized betamax vid ever! It even has a speeded up DS chase sequence - tres bizzare!And they wreck an SM in that bit too Pretty terrible film but essential viewing for shite fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volksy Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Voila! http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zUnow1bzJ ... re=related Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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