Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.

[lesapandre]

1983 Fiat Oggi -1983 Brazil only.

[Richard_FM]

41 minutes ago, 5speedracer said:

Wrong Sunbeam I think you mean Rapier?

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Yes though there was also an Alpine based on the same body shell 

[lesapandre]

When the original Alpine went out of production they transferred the name to a de-contented and cheaper Rapier. Rootes never missed a marketing opportunity.

[AnthonyG]

Seen an advert on Car and Classic for a Mk3 Cortina with an 1100 engine. Apparently this was a special spec for Greece due to tax rates.

Lordy it must be slow, the 1300s were just about acceptable..

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1168376

Can’t grab a pic to link from, it’s a nice early XL 4 dr in red but it’s £10k(!) and it’s still in Greece, disappointingly there is no under bonnet pic!

[Alusilber]

7 hours ago, Richard_FM said:

VW Passat Tetra, I guess the Quattro technology wasn't limited to just Audi:

Just did a bit of Googling on this and it turns out the Passat Tetra was renamed Passat Syncro shortly after it was launched, presumably to tie in with the Golf (Mk2) Syncro, although the 4WD systems were quite different.

[chaseracer]

Did the Quattro tech not start with VW anyway, under the Iltis?

[Austat]

1973 Nissan EV-4 concepts:

[Austat]

Avenger R429 concept:

[ChinaTom]

11 hours ago, Richard_FM said:

Reliant FW11, did Skoda see one when designing the Favorit?

If you’d said Citroën BX you could have said that, but the other way round. See Anadol for more info.

[Volksy]

12 hours ago, barrett said:

WTF??? That's all new to me. So does it have a hydro system then? That's mental!

Yeh, self contained on the rear only, with an electric LHM pump. 

[Austat]

Volkswagen Country Buggy/Sakbayan:

 

[bunglebus]

Yeah very cool, was it Indonesia for the Sakbayan and Australia for the Country Buggy? 

[Timewaster]

2 hours ago, Volksy said:

Yeh, self contained on the rear only, with an electric LHM pump. 

And if 2 bored apprentices sit on the boot, it will sag right down on it suspension before realising and pumping itself level. 

Then they jump off and for 10 seconds the car looks like a hot wheels racer with its arse right up on the air until it sinks down. 

Repeat until battery flat or chased by salesman. 

(er, apparently) 

[Richard_FM]

5 hours ago, ChinaTom said:

If you’d said Citroën BX you could have said that, but the other way round. See Anadol for more info.

I know that reliant helped out with the original  anadol design, was this a planned update?

[Remspoor]

17 hours ago, quicksilver said:

G728 BHP - 1990 Peugeot 405 GLx4 1.9 by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

Yes, it is a Pug 405 and not one of those weird Iranian versions. Looks so normal I never even noticed at the time that it's four-wheel drive. I knew of the sporty Mi16x4 but not the lesser GLx4, of which this is the only roadworthy example.

I had a red one as a company car for a while. Nice to drive in bad weather, terrible fuel consumption and not the quietest of transmissions.

[inconsistant]

16 hours ago, 5speedracer said:

Wrong Sunbeam I think you mean Rapier?

Wrong NSU I think you mean K70?

 

[bunglebus]

Not exactly a lot of difference visually between an RO80 and a K70, but yeah the front definitely K70

 

 

[Richard_FM]

I assume this was a design concept for the Corsa B.

[Richard_FM]

9 hours ago, Austat said:

Avenger R429 concept:

Looking very much like a scaled down muscle car, the nearest we got was the Avenger Tiger & other sporty ones like the BRM Avenger.

[barrett]

7 hours ago, Volksy said:

Yeh, self contained on the rear only, with an electric LHM pump. 

That's fantastic. I reckon there's probably one out of 100 cars posted in this thread that I didn't know existed (because I know all the cars) but that genuinely is one. Weirdly I must have seen it irl if it was at FOU last year

[Volksy]

They're hard to spot, as apart from a tiny GLx4 badge on the rear, they look like any other 405.

They can sink on the rear which, like an early Xantia gives them a saggy arse.

[Austat]

The GT-77, a homemade sports car from Soviet-era Armenia:

http://antiqcar.ru/news?view=13670100

[Austat]

1985 Chevrolet Monza S/R. A Brazilian Cavalier 2 door coupe, would of been a hit in the UK:

 

[Snipes]

Probably unnecessary with the Manta in the same UK showrooms.

[New POD]

The cavalier, Ascona, Monza, sunbird, aska, canine, j-car was surely the first global car.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM_J_platform

[bunglebus]

Found a few oddball concepts for the 3rd generation VW Transporter

 

[The Vicar]

In Ireland, there was a 1200cc version of the Wolseley 1500. There was also a 1200cc A55 Cambridge, called the A45 (not listed here):

[Richard_FM]

40 minutes ago, The Vicar said:

In Ireland, there was a 1200cc version of the Wolseley 1500. There was also a 1200cc A55 Cambridge, called the A45 (not listed here):

There was the Morris Crowley with a 1200cc engine in an Oxford body shell.

There was also the Isis with a 2.6 litre engine in a smartened  Oxford body & a right hand gear lever.

[martc]

7 hours ago, Richard_FM said:

There was also the Isis with a 2.6 litre engine in a smartened  Oxford body & a right hand gear lever.

In certain markets these were replaced with Toyota Hi Lux pick ups.

[lesapandre]

9 hours ago, The Vicar said:

In Ireland, there was a 1200cc version of the Wolseley 1500. There was also a 1200cc A55 Cambridge, called the A45 (not listed here):

Ah the madness of BMC. Magnette and Wolseley 15/50  and Wolseley 1500 and 1200 and Riley 1.5 all similar size cars in production at the same time. The Wolseley 1500 bodyshell was intended to be the new Morris Minor but that was canned - but in Australia it was sold as both Morris (Major) and Austin (Lancer) whilst the Minor continued with updates in the UK. Phew. Whilst at the same time selling the Austin Cambridge and Morris Oxford - but at least they eventually ended up with the same Farina bodyshell...

AROnline tells the story of the RoI CKD history.

https://www.aronline.co.uk/around-the-world/around-the-world-ireland/