Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.

[1duck]

9 hours ago, paulplom said:

Ah, I thought it looked like that suzuki thing.

My mate had one, best bit is that it's a fiat 16...4x4.

[tul66]

I've got one. Bought it as a winter hack a couple of years ago & kept it as it does everything I need it to. The only thing maybe is that it's a bit small.

 

Well impressed.

[Austat]

Toyota Porte, first time I've ever seen one of these. A Japanese Peugeot 1007 by the looks of it:

[Volksy]

6 minutes ago, Austat said:

Toyota Porte, first time I've ever seen one of these. A Japanese Peugeot 1007 by the looks of it:

Oddly only a sliding door on the passenger side!

[Austat]

Dodge Serra Boulevard 3700 GT:

[bunglebus]

How about a Kia Proceed

 

[Austat]

Seat 850 4 Door:

[Yoss]

@11001010 has just posted this on the ebay tat thread.

It's a Sovam. Based on a Renault 4, I thought it was a bit like a French Mini Marcos but I've decided it's better as although it only has an 850 to 1300cc engine they've moved it back behind the front axle. 

Nice minimalist interior. 

And I've just decided 3 stud alloy wheels are cool. 

I'd have one. 

[Garythesnail]

2 hours ago, Yoss said:

Based on a Renault 4, I thought it was a bit like a French Mini Marcos but I've decided it's better as although it only has an 850 to 1300cc engine they've moved it back behind the front axle. 

All Renault 4, 5 and 6 were the same (thankfully, given the rate at which my R5 went through driveshafts and starter motors).

My first car was a 1979 Renault 5  and remains my only mid-engined car (although my wife has had an OMGHGFMGTF fort a few years now)

[NorfolkNWeigh]

As was the 16, but not the 12 which put a cast iron lump in front of the gearbox, the 15 and 17 were based on the 12 but in higher end models used the alloy 16 engine in front of the gearbox. Confused? Good , so am I. Let’s not even think about the 21 and it’s 1.7 transverse set up and 2.0 longitudinal models which means you could tell what size engine a 21 had by the gap between wheel arch and door.

[High Jetter]

16 had the gearbox infront of the engine, at least on my TS

[Austat]

Continuing on with the Renault-based theme, the Renault 4 Mireli is something I've just discovered recently:

[Austat]

1971 Sokol Coupé, based on a VW Beetle chassis with a Toyota 1600 engine:

[bunglebus]

I thought that thing was a one-off? Very MK1 Capri roofline looking from the front.

[Austat]

3 hours ago, bunglebus said:

I thought that thing was a one-off? Very MK1 Capri roofline looking from the front.

It is a one off, and most would argue for good reason.

[Austat]

Saab 99 "Blue Spirit", one of many custom Saabs built by Leif Mellberg:

[outlaw118]

I'm absolutely positive I've seen that Sokol.... and frankly the photos make it look better....

[outlaw118]

 A Dison, nothing to do with vacuum cleaners and taking Britsh manufacturing jobs....

Googled it, and nowt. Anyone know owt?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1960s-Dison-sports-racing-car/264781845995?hash=item3da63a55eb:g:4qcAAOSw4PBe~I5Y

[LightBulbFun]

4 hours ago, outlaw118 said:

 A Dison, nothing to do with vacuum cleaners and taking Britsh manufacturing jobs....

Googled it, and nowt. Anyone know owt?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1960s-Dison-sports-racing-car/264781845995?hash=item3da63a55eb:g:4qcAAOSw4PBe~I5Y

seems like exactly the sort of thing @barrett would know about  

[Supernaut]

Looks loosely inspired by a Shelby King Cobra thingy. There's one in Forza Horizon 4 that's a very similar shape.

[JeeExEll]

A Brasinca Uirapuru.

I'm pretty sure I've never said those words before.

Well, maybe that night with the mushrooms . . . .

[chaseracer]

Some Glas/BMW influence there...?

Or a shrunken mutant Studebaker Avanti...

 

EDIT: No. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasinca_Uirapuru

[Asimo]

Dallas Grandin.  Could be a keeper:- XUD engine, galvanised chassis, plastic body (according to wiki myth)

https://www.leboncoin.fr/voitures/1806450415.htm/

[egg]

I did not know that there was a Pug 505 coupe concept. If they had built it, I might have transferred my ovlov 780 lust on to this objet de désir...

[egg]

Fiat x1/23 concept

 

 

[bramz7]

This website is utterly superb (albeit a real throwback) and I could spend hours on it, but here is a highlight:

http://www.auto-pub.net/ASL/page_Talbot_Horizon_Sherlock.htm

Horizon Sherlock which had loads of cheap wood fittings and tweed seats, as well as Sherlock decals in the rear quarter. Mental. 

[HMC]

Plus also please note a Sherlock deer stalker type hat perched on the front seat. Is there also a pipe holder? CLASS

[timolloyd]

I think this might be my new holy grail of shite

[martc]

2 minutes ago, timolloyd said:

I think this might be my new holy grail of shite

Wait till you see the Lonsdale Poirot...

[Inspiral_Mondays]

Spotted today in a traffic jam near Stuttgart, a new one on me, a Lada Vesta. Looks reasonable from a distance, looks totally crap up close.