Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.

[Crackers]

On 30/04/2022 at 09:34, artdjones said:

I wouldn't agree with that, as the TR6 is the same car with the styling squared up (by Karmann).

Pretty car. Definitely would.

[JeeExEll]

3 hours ago, Snake Charmer said:

Looks like a Fire Brigade practice day.

4-door convertible.  Can you imagine the results of a mid-side-on collision from another car or a HGV?  (Think folding cardboard box with occupants inside).

Interesting idea but (in the UK) they've probably all rotted away now due to rusted out floorpans / leaky soft-tops.

A Visa is a rare car now anyway.

[Six-cylinder]

3 hours ago, Snake Charmer said:

Looks like a Fire Brigade practice day.

 

10 minutes ago, JeeExEll said:

4-door convertible.  Can you imagine the results of a mid-side-on collision from another car or a HGV?  (Think folding cardboard box with occupants inside).

Interesting idea but (in the UK) they've probably all rotted away now due to rusted out floorpans / leaky soft-tops.

A Visa is a rare car now anyway.

Harsh, there are a few left, including Mrs6C's!

[Austat]

1961 Studebaker Italia by Lombardi:

[Austat]

(c.1965) Piollet 315:

[bunglebus]

BMW iX with painted on grille

God it's fugly

[Metal Guru]

18 hours ago, bunglebus said:

BMW iX with painted on grille

God it's fugly

You do wonder how someone ( and their bosses too), say “ Yeh, that looks great” and sign it off for production.

[RoverFolkUs]

Today I learnt the Zafira A was sold as a Subaru Traviq abroad!

[RoverFolkUs]

San Storm

Some sort of convertible 🤔

Edit to add - according to how many left - there were only 2 registered in the UK! Both still surviving apparently but neither on the road. 

[myglaren]

An imposing looking Bentley overtook me on the A1 and had something like "Valkyrie" on the rear.

Can't see anything like it on their "brochure"

[Timewaster]

1 hour ago, RoverFolkUs said:

San Storm

Some sort of convertible 🤔

Edit to add - according to how many left - there were only 2 registered in the UK! Both still surviving apparently but neither on the road. 

Built in India and imported by reliant for a while. 

[RoverFolkUs]

11 minutes ago, Timewaster said:

Built in India and imported by reliant for a while. 

I now discover its got Renault running gear, namely the 1.1L engine

[goosey]

Rayton-Fissore Magnum

Italys own luxury off-roader 

 

[Leyland Worldmaster]

5 hours ago, goosey said:

Rayton-Fissore Magnum

Italys own luxury off-roader 

 

Looks like a Fiat Uno that has consumed many pies! 🤓

[bunglebus]

7 hours ago, goosey said:

Rayton-Fissore Magnum

Italys own luxury off-roader 

Watched a video about these a while back

 

[RoverFolkUs]

Toyota Voxy

Clearly a jap import, but saw one today and not something I expected to see round here nor knew existed. 

Suppose it's like a Nissan Elgrand, of which I do see a fair few

[quicksilver]

@wuvvum owned a Rayton Fissore Magnum some years ago and there's probably a thread about it somewhere. I'd never heard of them until recently and never seen one so it was quite exciting to discover I know somebody who actually owned one.

EDIT: turns out I mentioned it in this very thread when I first discovered it in 2018. There's a surprising number of mentions over the years if you search the forum.

[bunglebus]

Just saw one of these - Lynk and Co

[lesapandre]

On 4/30/2022 at 9:22 AM, catsinthewelder said:

The film I saw last night featured a Bajaj RE60 quite prominently.

216cc apparently

https://www.cardekho.com/bajaj/re60

 

That is absolutely absurd. I love it already. There is a video-review in the link.

I'm assuming no European Type Approval.

Just the sort of thing we should be importing under our new trade deal with India. 

We export missiles and import Bajajs.

It's  retailing at £2,796 in India - if the recession deepens we will all be driving one...

[barrett]

On 5/6/2022 at 10:39 AM, Austat said:

1961 Studebaker Italia by Lombardi:

How completely insane. They built four of these things - one of them was destroyed in the Italian movie Uomini si nasce poliziotti si muore in 1976. And now here's another one being destroyed, in a different Italian movie, in 1973. What the fuck were these people thinking???

 

[lesapandre]

10 minutes ago, barrett said:

How completely insane. They built four of these things - one of them was destroyed in the Italian movie Uomini si nasce poliziotti si muore in 1976. And now here's another one being destroyed, in a different Italian movie, in 1973. What the fuck were these people thinking???

 

Studebaker/Porsche prototype. I'm not sure if it survives.

[angle]

If anyone feels like going down a rabbit hole, the Nissan Heritage website is amazing - hi-res photos of every car in the Nissan Heritage Museum in Japan, loads of period photos and brochures etc. 

https://www.nissan-global.com/EN/HERITAGE/

Anyhow I'm going with the Nissan NRV-ii. 1983 and it has radar cruise, a 'drowsiness detector' and touch screen navigation (not satnav mind, as there were no satellites). And a 1.3 turbo engine that would only run on methanol.

 

 

[lesapandre]

2 hours ago, angle said:

If anyone feels like going down a rabbit hole, the Nissan Heritage website is amazing - hi-res photos of every car in the Nissan Heritage Museum in Japan, loads of period photos and brochures etc. 

https://www.nissan-global.com/EN/HERITAGE/

Anyhow I'm going with the Nissan NRV-ii. 1983 and it has radar cruise, a 'drowsiness detector' and touch screen navigation (not satnav mind, as there were no satellites). And a 1.3 turbo engine that would only run on methanol.

 

 

How did the 'sat nav' work - short-wave radio and detectors along the roadsides?

[SteersWithThrottle]

4 hours ago, lesapandre said:

How did the 'sat nav' work - short-wave radio and detectors along the roadsides?

That would have required the installation of said detectors... I'd guess some kind of inertial gyroscopic system, hopefully with a method to zero it!

[bobdisk]

Could have been inertial navigation. Set up where you are on a moving map, a gyroscope senses movement,  and moves the display to follow.

[angle]

Yep, Honda had something similar working around the same time:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro_Gyrocator

[SteersWithThrottle]

The Military of Various Nations have used this kind of system for quite a long time, probably longer than most people would imagine (imagine pre-solid-state electronics era). The main issues with it are drift error, due to serious mechanical complexity and calibration precision, even on modern systems.

Here's a more technically detailed link for anyone that may be interested:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_navigation_system

[Metal Guru]

On 30/04/2022 at 09:22, catsinthewelder said:

The film I saw last night featured a Bajaj RE60 quite prominently.

216cc apparently

https://www.cardekho.com/bajaj/re60

 

That’s 19cc more than my lawnmower.

[GeordieInExile]

Why have that when you could have this?

Renault Kwid. 57bhp, 775kg, simple smoll car from India. Could be coming to Europe as a Dacia. It's £3k for a bASe one in India, even at double that it would be incredible value.

 

 

[SteersWithThrottle]

1 hour ago, GeordieInExile said:

Why have that when you could have this?

Renault Kwid. 57bhp, 775kg, simple smoll car from India. Could be coming to Europe as a Dacia. It's £3k for a bASe one in India, even at double that it would be incredible value.

 

 

Not if it rusts like this 9-year old Indian  Dacia Duster

https://autoshite.com/topic/34511-ebay-tat-volume-3/?do=findComment&comment=2526071