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Shamelessly knicked form the Bikeshite thread. Never seen or heard of this one before. It's a Honda Cub EZ90 but not the old grunter your slightly seedy uncle used to ride; that would have been a C90. The EZ90 was made between 1990 and 96; it was sold in the USA primarily aimed at the 'put it on the rack at the back of your motorhome market'.

Super Cub a super bike to Robin | Forever Bikes

Your uncle the day before yesterday - c'mon son sit on the back an' 'old on.

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It looks like a generic ‘special edition’ Mk3 Golf yes? Well it’s not, it has 0 cylinders.
It’s an EV, limited run of next to bigger all, about 23hp and could just touch 60! 
 

Only found out as Grampian Transport Museum just got the example pictured! 

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Oh I like these. Apparently by the mid 90s Ford and Volkswagen were struggling for market share in Brazil so they teamed up to use each others strengths. A sort of Arna / Cherry Europe situation. 

Which is why you can get a Volkswagen Apollo. Yeah, it's an Orion. 

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Or how about a VW Pointer or Logus? Using the very latest in European technology, ie Mk5 Escort underpinnings. 

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Ford went bigger - the Versailles and the Royale were Santana based. 

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10 hours ago, angle said:

Which is why you can get a Volkswagen Apollo. Yeah, it's an Orion. 

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Except it's a two-door. I have seen pictures of factory 2 door Onions but Google says no these days, only home-made ones. The story at the time was something like three were made. If anyone still has Max Power mags one came up for sale in the back once

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31 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Except it's a two-door. I have seen pictures of factory 2 door Onions but Google says no these days, only home-made ones. The story at the time was something like three were made. If anyone still has Max Power mags one came up for sale in the back once

From Wikipedia:

Although heavily based in the second generation of the European Ford Orion, it has a unique body style, being a two-door sedan with a higher rear design and horizontal tail lights. The two cars are also mechanically different, and while the Orion was only available in the four-door body style, the Verona was only available with two doors. It lacked some features available in the Orion, for example the folding rear seats, to reduce production costs.

Apparently either available with a 1.6  litre Ford engine based on the Renault Cleon-Fonte, or a 1.8 VW engine. It replaced the extremely shite looking Ford Del Rey, which appears to be a Cortina / Renault 12 mashup:

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The TVR Tina.  A what??  Based on the Imp, obv.

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Some stuff about it here, history involved Gerry Marshall the racing driver.

https://www.silverstoneauctions.com/events/2017-auctions/nec-classic-motor-show-sale-2017/nec-classic-motor-show-sale-2017-sale/2pm-saturday-cars/1967-tvr-tina-prototype

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At least one of the factory 2 Dr Orion's survives in Ireland as a rwd rally car ( manta running gear I believe).now belongs to the son  (fiesta wrc driver) of original driver,there's some YouTube footage of it.

I'm sure there was a pic of the boxer Barry Maguigan driving one in a rally ( possibly circuit of Ireland) in the mid 80's it was a MK1.

Love this sorta stuff. Was lead to believe the Delray was Renault 12 based, whereas the Apollo/Verona was MK4 escort based.

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11 hours ago, JeeExEll said:

The TVR Tina.  A what??  Based on the Imp, obv.

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Some stuff about it here, history involved Gerry Marshall the racing driver.

https://www.silverstoneauctions.com/events/2017-auctions/nec-classic-motor-show-sale-2017/nec-classic-motor-show-sale-2017-sale/2pm-saturday-cars/1967-tvr-tina-prototype

Prototype named after the designers kid. Practical classics rebuilt it before they went all gentrified and have Porsche  cayennes and similar shit in.

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On 8/3/2020 at 7:13 PM, JeeExEll said:

The TVR Tina.  A what??  Based on the Imp, obv.

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Some stuff about it here, history involved Gerry Marshall the racing driver.

https://www.silverstoneauctions.com/events/2017-auctions/nec-classic-motor-show-sale-2017/nec-classic-motor-show-sale-2017-sale/2pm-saturday-cars/1967-tvr-tina-prototype

Reminds me of the Capri concept drawings:

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I’ve taken a shine to Hybrids and EV’s over the last few years, so to carry in from the CityStormer Golf the other day I bring you this...

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The Cadillac ELR! 
It’s a essentially a coupe of the Chevy Volt/Vauxhall’s Ampera. It sold rather badly with shy of 3000 sold in 3 years. 

Personally rather like it, having that oh-so-angular Cadillac styling rather well! 

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7 hours ago, 17-Coffees said:

I’ve taken a shine to Hybrids and EV’s over the last few years, so to carry in from the CityStormer Golf the other day I bring you this...

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The Cadillac ELR! 
It’s a essentially a coupe of the Chevy Volt/Vauxhall’s Ampera. It sold rather badly with shy of 3000 sold in 3 years. 

Personally rather like it, having that oh-so-angular Cadillac styling rather well! 


Poor selling because it was too expensive I believe.

 

 

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I remember a mad bugger called Andy Saunders regularly having his modified cars featured in Street Machine in the 80s and 90s.

This CX low loader stuck in my mind:

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Here's his take on a 2CV, nobody better show this to DollyWobbler, he might faint...

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