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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.
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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........

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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 (B) 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.

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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.

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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.

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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 :lol::lol:

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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 :lol::lol:

Wasn't his name Bricklin?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Bricklin

I think most Fiesta special editions ever produced have been lambasted in this thread!! :lol:

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?
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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 :lol::lol:

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!

 

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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

 

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....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.

 

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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...

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....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

A 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.

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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.
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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 :lol::lol:

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!

 

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My most prized betamax vid ever! It even has a speeded up DS chase sequence - tres bizzare!
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