Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.

[Claphamrangie]

I had no idea that they had ever done an Alfasud Giardinetta 5 door

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Don't think they did before photoshop was invented

[bunglebus]

Saw one of these 4 door Bentleys today

 

[R&A Autos]

Peugeot J5 Hymermobil camper

[adw1977]

Saw one of these 4 door Bentleys today

 

 

Visibility looks awful, looking out of it must be like peering through a letterbox!

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Saw one of these 4 door Bentleys today

 

There's a good reason for not knowing these exist- they don't yet!

Was it a prototype testing or something? That rendering looks like an A7 with a Bentley grille, I'm hoping the real thing is a bit more imposing when it arrives.

[MorrisItalSLX]

The Rover 800

 

 

 

IN AUSTRALIA!?!?

 

Turns out they were sold here between 1987 and 1991!

I have never seen one here ever, not even for sale.

 

I want one. I really do.

 

EDIT: found this website with some useful information about Aussie market Rovers.

https://rover800australia.com/

[bunglebus]

There's a good reason for not knowing these exist- they don't yet!

Was it a prototype testing or something? That rendering looks like an A7 with a Bentley grille, I'm hoping the real thing is a bit more imposing when it arrives.

 

No idea.It was driving through Chelmsford, probably still on my dashcam. Maybe the pic's not right - seems to be a Flying Spur according to Bentley's website.

[Yoss]

Honda Logo? Never heard of it. Though looking at this remarkably bland image they could be everywhere and I've just noticed.

[Bfg]

Honda logo? Never heard of it. Though looking at this remarkably bland image they could be everywhere and I've just noticed.

 

 

I love it.. only here on Autoshite would a man who owns two Škoda get away with sayin that    

[Timewaster]

If you want to see Logos, check outside the post office on pension day.

[Yoss]

I love it.. only here on Autoshite would a man who owns two Škoda get away with sayin that    

Ha ha, the irony of that was completely lost on me when I typed it. I'm so comfortable with my Felicia now that I forget it is practically invisible to the general public. Would explain the amount of car park dings it has attracted over the years.

[SierraMikeHotel]

A colleague of mine had a Logo.  I'd never heard of them either so Googled it, and of course you can't - you just get the Honda (lower-case l)ogo - a big letter H.

The Post Office comment is entirely accurate, he'd liberated it from his elderly father when he decided to give up driving.

[Ghosty]

I occasionally spot an imported five door Logo around Manchester:

 

[Datsuncog]

In fairness, the Logo went entirely under my radar too. I only realised they existed about two years ago when Mrs DC snapped a particularly battered example for my delectation.

 

 

 

I've seen a few around since (and one only a week or so ago), but they were entirely invisible to me at the time they were new - I never noticed any ads for them, any writeups in Auto Express, or any customers coming in needing bits for one.

 

Connoisseur-grade shite in the making, surely...

[cros]

That Logo is a ghost of a car, it's just about invisible. It took 17 years for me to notice my first one and even then I thought I'd imagined it until it cropped up here the other day. If there's anything else I've missed I'd be grateful if someone would get it posted. I've had the Wind already.

[Bfg]

 I've had the Wind already.

 

Okey     but is that something we really needed to know ?  Sprouts over Christmas have that affect on a lot of folk !

[bunglebus]

Saw one of these yesterday;

 

 

A Subaru Levorg apparently

[twosmoke300]

The logo is like the Toyota starlet . Automotive cockroaches. You just can't kill them . ( cvt aside)

[egg]

I occasionally spot an imported five door Logo around Manchester:

 

That's a really remarkable spot when you think about it! Imported in 2012.

[Christine]

Alfa Express !

 

 

 

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C921119

[Matt]

If you want a Honda Logo then you need to go to Central Scotland. Alan Gold on Flickr has photographed at least 10

 

https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=47381765%40N04&view_all=1&text=Logo

[wuvvum]

I saw one of these yesterday. Do t recall ever seeing one before, although that could just be because MODERN

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I saw one of those a couple of weeks back in Spalding when picking up the Audi.  They were sold here as the Accent Atlantic for a brief period between the original Accent finally succumbing to old age and the I20 going on sale.  Only ever as a 3 door.

[Junkman]

Ever heard of the StreetScooter (sic)?

 

 

 

 

 

Get used to it. Since it's German, it'll soon be the biggest e-car maker in the world rendering the rest insignificant.

It has DHL money behind it, which makes even Elon Musk look like a beach bum.

Another chance missed by the nation that hitherto had a monopoly on milk floats.

[Tayne]

StreetScooter are also building electric Ford Transits as DHL have done a deal for the supply of Transit gliders.

 

You have to wonder why none of the big boys said yes when DHL case knocking with an order for 70,000 EV vans.

[cros]

 

A couple of old snotters I've not seen before, Jennings bodied Standard 8 and Triumph 9. When I were a boy there were lots of wooden contraptions of this type about, most on their last gasp and riddled with woodworm. My favourites were rebodied ex WW2 stuff. They were hopelessly uneconomical with low compression sidevalve engines and final drive ratios more suited to military conditions.

[Pillock]

Visibility looks awful, looking out of it must be like peering through a letterbox!

 

You drive a Bentley. Why would you want to look at the outside world?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

I saw this thing a few times in West London. Didn't know it was electric, didn't know it was Chinese. Seems to be the first-ever Chinese car to get over here, and in right-hand-drive.

[chaseracer]

Seems to be the first-ever Chinese car to get over here, and in right-hand-drive.

 

Aside from a few dozen MGs... 

[busmansholiday]

I saw this thing a few times in West London. Didn't know it was electric, didn't know it was Chinese.

 

Seems to be the first-ever Chinese car to get over here, and in right-hand-drive.

BYD, Build Your Dreams, started off as battery manufacturers then got into cars and are into buses in a very big way. Most of the electric buses in London have BYD units under them.