Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.

[Rustybullethole]

On 05/09/2024 at 11:31, MiniMinorMk3 said:

What a pity Renault are not going to build this.

R17 electric restomod x Ora Ïto show-car - Renault

Some serious BL styling going on there. 

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, Rustybullethole said:

Some serious BL styling going on there. 

...which they copied from Regie, iirc.

[andy18s]

Sold in South Africa it seems.

[sheffcortinacentre]

Hmm thought it was south America?

[andy18s]

South America, Africa,Egypt and S Korea all produced them apparently 

The Seahan motor company was later renamed Daewoo 

[Remspoor]

SAAB V8.

 

[MiniMinorMk3]

On 15/09/2024 at 02:14, Metal Guru said:

Looks like a rejected design for an Interceptor.

 

On 15/09/2024 at 03:47, Madman Of The People said:

 

 

Looks like the bastard child of a Jensen Interceptor and a Studebaker Avanti.

 

 

On 15/09/2024 at 20:47, bunglebus said:

Pre-dates the Interceptor, I read that the wrap around rear window on it was inspired by the Uirapuru, which is how I found out about it

It's a cut and shut of an Avanti

and a Trident Clipper

[DavieW]

I saw an VW GTX at the weekend. Huge EV (I assume) barge of a thing. 

[sheffcortinacentre]

11 hours ago, Remspoor said:

SAAB V8.

 

Great, god bless people like this.

[sheffcortinacentre]

The Avanti is one of the ugliest cars every built, sure it was done my a committee who were never in contact until the car went on sale.

[artdjones]

On 15/09/2024 at 20:37, Bfg said:

 

When a company can't even design a neatly folding hood, why on earth would someone trust them to otherwise modify their car ?

It was probably just too expensive, as the rear deck and boot bulk head would have needed reengineering, and that might have made the whole car too floppy without loads of extra bracing. I bet it's a fair bit less rigid anyway.

[Lord Sterling]

Ssang-Yong Actyon apparently...

Here are some clearer pics;

[somewhatfoolish]

Keeping up the tradition of ugly Ssangyongs.

[bunglebus]

1942 L’Oeuf Electrique - the only one built, still exists

[MiniMinorMk3]

15 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

The Avanti is one of the ugliest cars every built, sure it was done my a committee who were never in contact until the car went on sale.

The Avanti was designed by Raymond Loewy. He'd worked for Studebaker before.

[barrett]

18 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

The Avanti is one of the ugliest cars every built, sure it was done my a committee who were never in contact until the car went on sale.

Probably the worst car take I've ever heard. The Avanti is one of about four interesting American cars ever made and one of the best car designs of the 1960s, period. I also don't accept any dimissal of old cars as 'ugly' when objectively every single car built in the last, say, 15 years is significantly uglier than every car built in the preceding 100 years.

[bunglebus]

The Multipla and Rodius would like a word!

The original Ami and VW 411 saloon are ugly too (but I love them for it)

Old cars could be gopping too

It's all subjective really, people used to say Beetles were ugly but I think they're about the best looking car ever

[bunglebus]

Terra Mactra, a New Zealand made, Beetle based farm vehicle - only two known to exist, about a 10% survival rate

[bunglebus]

New Hun Dee Santa Fe looks like a Minecraft Range Rover 

[lesapandre]

On 18/09/2024 at 14:54, barrett said:

Probably the worst car take I've ever heard. The Avanti is one of about four interesting American cars ever made and one of the best car designs of the 1960s, period. I also don't accept any dimissal of old cars as 'ugly' when objectively every single car built in the last, say, 15 years is significantly uglier than every car built in the preceding 100 years.

Here is an Avanti R3 close up. This has the supercharger. Designed by Loewy personally as part of a small team. It's on a modified Studebaker Hawk chassis and was a last ditch attempt to rejuvenate Studebaker. One of those cars that's better in person than in pictures. An amazing thing. This is taken in France.

150mph+ if you are brave enough.

 Introduced in1962.

 

[barrett]

I love the French, but man do I hate the French sometimes. Those wheels need to be kicked into the nearest canal asap.

[AnthonyG]

Yeah, the wheels don’t do it any favours at all. I think the fact that someone bought all the rights and tooling to build the Avanti after Studebaker gave up on it, and successfully kept going for around 20 years, is pretty good evidence that the original design had something going for it. 

[Metal Guru]

On 18/09/2024 at 19:09, bunglebus said:

Terra Mactra, a New Zealand made, Beetle based farm vehicle - only two known to exist, about a 10% survival rate

From the front, it bears an uncanny resemblance to the Hammerhead Eagle     i-Thrust.

[lesapandre]

Stock wheels have hubcaps:

https://theavanti.com/wheels.html

[adw1977]

On 19/09/2024 at 19:52, lesapandre said:

Here is an Avanti R3 close up. This has the supercharger. Designed by Loewy personally as part of a small team. It's on a modified Studebaker Hawk chassis and was a last ditch attempt to rejuvenate Studebaker.

Once Studebaker abandoned car manufacture, the rights and tooling for the Avanti were sold and small scale production continued in various forms under various companies until 2006, if Wikipedia is to be believed!

[D.E]

Lesser known fact: back in the early 2000s the company building Avantis tried to expand their business with a monstrous SUV, and got sued by General Motors as they argued it was a copy of their Hummer H2. 

https://blog.consumerguide.com/what-was-the-studebaker-xuv/

Edit: the last Avantis appear to be Firebird based and look hideous:

 

 

[D.E]

Good grief, they're expensive! $40k!

Quote

A new version of the Avanti was introduced in October 2000 based on the AVanti eXperimental (AVX). This model, which used a Chevrolet Camaro / Pontiac Firebird chassis, was continued through 2004. For 2005-2007 a newer version was built on a Ford Mustang chassis.

Right... So the above ones are disguised Firebirds, and this is a Mustang. 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/266978091287?_skw=avanti&itmmeta=01J8DVEXF3R5S1CBFNV16X8SJT&hash=item3e29226117:g:ilsAAOSwAtxmsOs8&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAAwHoV3kP08IDx%2BKZ9MfhVJKnAl%2Brp6m5fwQAWCjpjcn2yiSoMlBdFOt1ykDHJDDmHd5mRRhAmXBt0SAq4fageMG96l2HcMOcjhG5UDJdsNKWbbZ%2FAK13X38OLxsTQ7ke5k7b74XTSkeTHOUWsEIvxsitzqIZ5JIwWateCoFzpG4L2BehNIE83jaVNiF0C3fpwcgC4l2x%2FMKRhX5GWvr8NbcmqXa8sNr9WV9aFafQLVi%2FYhsudX0xAIHQ0D%2Fd%2BjtyAqw%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR87Xu7vDZA

[Metal Guru]

4 hours ago, D.E said:

Lesser known fact: back in the early 2000s the company building Avantis tried to expand their business with a monstrous SUV, and got sued by General Motors as they argued it was a copy of their Hummer H2. 

https://blog.consumerguide.com/what-was-the-studebaker-xuv/

Edit: the last Avantis appear to be Firebird based and look hideous:

 

 

They deserve some sort of “award” for making a Hummer look worse.

[GeordieInExile]

It was only a concept. It should have been produced for real. 

[AnthonyG]

Those later Avantis look hideous. I didn’t actually know someone kept trying though, I had assumed the company had packed it in for good sometime in the late 1980s, when the last ‘proper’ ones were built. They should have left it there.