Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.

[cros]

Renault Fluence(at least in RHD form)media ( .jpghttp://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201501110084608Not exactly the most pretty Renault ever[/quote

6 grand & batts extra.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

"Yeah i'll take it without the batteries thanks"

[Spottedlaurel]

The Singer SM1500, or Hunter, or just SM depending where you look.  Discovered when browsing eBay and this particular example I find very appealing.

 

The Singer was a new one to me too when I saw it in this old photo a few years back. I assumed it was something else with a blank front panel cobbled-up after accident damage…..

 

1899 Benz, Singer SM1500 and 1960 Vauxhall (1962) by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

[Dick Cheeseburger]

In keeping with the Renault Effluence above, I give you the Renault Flatulence. First time I'd seen one was when we were holidaying in the South of France two years ago, and there was a dusty looking example on the sea front at St Tropez. Seen several over here since, but they certainly don't seem common. If I had to have a Renault floppytop, I'd have one of these I reckon.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

I hadn't heard of a VX Ampera until I spotted one in Newquay a few months ago. Turns out its GM's leccy offering. Unusually, I quite like big, clumpy looking Vauxhalls, and this thing looked OK in the flesh. Certainly less shit than the wobbly looking Datsun Leaves. I like this lady.

[STUNO]

How about this one as a quiz? The question is not what it is but what is it badged as?

 

I personally photographed it in South-West Texas 2002, I have never seen another.

 

 

 

 

 

My neighbour had one of these in the mid-80's, bought new and badged as an Isuzu Gemini Coupe, probably with 1300 power.

[vulgalour]

Amperas are one of those things that I knew about and hadn't seen until earlier this year, they do look better in person than in photographs even with their strange wheels trying very hard to look like ordinary wheels.  I wouldn't go so far as to say I like them, but they certainly do a good job of looking like an entirely conventional modern day car.

[SiC]

We seem to have quite a few around here in Bristol - but then we get a lot of electric cars. E.g. going to work today I spotted a Twizzy, Zoe, 2x Leafs and a Tesla.

 

 

 

 

How many of them did you have to Google?

Probably helps we have a lot of electric car charging points and often are the very rare car park spaces that are actually free during the day!

[MarvinsMom]

My neighbour had one of these in the mid-80's, bought new and badged as an Isuzu Gemini Coupe, probably with 1300 power.

i take it that this is related to the kadette coupe thing that is itself based on a chevette?

 

i cannot remember what the platform was called but there was a GM version of the same car for each different market, europe, japan, the uk and america. some one on here will know what the proper name is....

[AlabamaShrimp]

Vauxhall Cascade? Saw it on Wikipedia never seen a real one

 

[Kiltox]

Someone I know works on a fruit farm that has Jumbucks for running around. They work, are cheap, and I can't think of anything else similar at the price but apparently people complain that they are too basic. Presumably they mean it doesn't have a heated cock-rest or something. In my day basic meant no passenger seat.

To me it's the modern less rusty answer to the Skoda Felicia pickup which are quickly disappearing

[Kiltox]

Vauxhall Cascade? Saw it on Wikipedia never seen a real one

 

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Only ever seen one in the metal and it was beige.

 

Want to hate it but it has to be future autoshite material

[inconsistant]

Just back from that Switzerland and am reporting these previously unknown cars, which were all fleeting viewages so subject to possible error:

1. Opel badged Fiat Dublo van type thing

2. Small Subaru car, badged Tre-something. Looked a bit Honda Jazzy.

3. Convertible Toyota Sera? (this sounds unlikely, maybe another similar Toyota model?

 

 

Also today I saw a 4 door saloon Nissan Almera and I didn't know they did one. It looked so tedious I could actually feel my adrenaline sighing.

[Slappy]

Opel is the Combo probably. More of a Fiat design, but it's probably still on the Corsa platform because the present Corsa and the present(-ish) Punto were designed during GM and Fiat's joint venture.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

i take it that this is related to the kadette coupe thing that is itself based on a chevette?

 

i cannot remember what the platform was called but there was a GM version of the same car for each different market, europe, japan, the uk and america. some one on here will know what the proper name is....

You've just reminded me, there was green Chevette Coupe driving around in Milton Keynes in the early 80's. I don't think it was homemade VX front on a Kadett, must have been a proposal that was sold off to staff( Luton is just down the road).

[oldcars]

Need to try and get a photo. The badge on the front said Verte. It was a pickup, looks a bit like a Holden Maloo/Vauxhall Carlton cross. Smart thing on a 04 plate.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Need to try and get a photo. The badge on the front said Verte. It was a pickup, looks a bit like a Holden Maloo/Vauxhall Carlton cross. Smart thing on a 04 plate.

That'll be a Falcon Ute with LPG, there was a British company bringing them in gassing them then pushing the green Eco angle- hence verte.

[oldcars]

That'll be a Falcon Ute with LPG, there was a British company bringing them in gassing them then pushing the green Eco angle- hence verte.

Cheers been wondering what it was all day, a google of verte did'nt show anything and it did look Aussie.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Don't know about cars you didn't know existed, what about Marques?

 

Bought Autocar for the first time in months, yesterday. And noticed in the price listings " DS Automobiles" entirely separate from Citroen. How long has this been the case?

[Lacquer Peel]

I keep forgetting these existed until I see the one that lives behind us, last fling of the Japanese micro vans in the UK.

 

[Mr Bump]

Colt Plus. No I had no idea either. Even stranger looking than the photos suggest

[overrun]

I hadn't heard of a VX Ampera until I spotted one in Newquay a few months ago. Turns out its GM's leccy offering. Unusually, I quite like big, clumpy looking Vauxhalls, and this thing looked OK in the flesh. Certainly less shit than the wobbly looking Datsun Leaves. I like this lady.

 

I like these,

Saw one today.

[HH-R]

The Ampera looks OK apart from the hideous black line under the windows. I'm sure I read there is some technical reason for it being there but it looks crap.

 

I've never (knowingly) seen a Cascada in the wild either.

[Mr Bump]

Cascada is now sold stateside as a Buick. Can't see many being sold. I saw the sum total of zero Buick Encores (mokka) in NY last year

[sheffcortinacentre]

yep I've got a verte was part of AC cars that where importing them.

 

there actually AU 2 falcons.

[17-Coffees]

Colt Plus. No I had no idea either. Even stranger looking than the photos suggest

 

Did a quick bit of sleuthing, and they were "Japan and international markets"...so 90% sure that means it's an import, but why the hell you'd import that is beyond me! 

[STUNO]

The Glorious attempt..... Anziel Nova.

An early try by the now well-known Alan Gibbs of Gibbs Aquada etc fame. Her wanted to establish a local car building industry, but was defeated by politics and money (see the history of just about everything!).

 

The car at a puiblicity shoot

 

 

Part of the publicity / sales blurb

 

 

The one and only Anziel as it is today, still Owned by Gibbs and kept at his home.

 

 

NOTE...there may be a slight trace of Anadol in it!

[uk_senator]

Chrysler 180/2-Litre limo, which I think I saw in a Eurythmics video..

[chaseracer]

^ Home-made?

 

(The stretch 180, not necessarily the video!)

[uk_senator]

^ Home-made?

 

(The stretch 180, not necessarily the video!)

Well, heres the video, see what you think: