Snake Charmer Posted May 5, 2022 Share Posted May 5, 2022 20 hours ago, JeeExEll said: Looks like a Fire Brigade practice day. Yoss, DSdriver, JeeExEll and 3 others 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crackers Posted May 5, 2022 Share Posted May 5, 2022 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. puddlethumper and rob88h 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted May 5, 2022 Share Posted May 5, 2022 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six-cylinder Posted May 5, 2022 Share Posted May 5, 2022 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! Dabooka, JeeExEll, adw1977 and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austat Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 1961 Studebaker Italia by Lombardi: Six-cylinder, 11001010, Remspoor and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austat Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 (c.1965) Piollet 315: SteersWithThrottle, NorfolkNWeigh, JeeExEll and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 BMW iX with painted on grille God it's fugly MrGTI6, adw1977, Snake Charmer and 5 others 1 2 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metal Guru Posted May 7, 2022 Share Posted May 7, 2022 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. bunglebus, ProgRocker and OM646 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoverFolkUs Posted May 7, 2022 Share Posted May 7, 2022 Today I learnt the Zafira A was sold as a Subaru Traviq abroad! Austat, MrGTI6, Remspoor and 8 others 10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoverFolkUs Posted May 7, 2022 Share Posted May 7, 2022 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. RichardK 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myglaren Posted May 7, 2022 Share Posted May 7, 2022 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" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timewaster Posted May 7, 2022 Share Posted May 7, 2022 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. egg and RoverFolkUs 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoverFolkUs Posted May 7, 2022 Share Posted May 7, 2022 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goosey Posted May 8, 2022 Share Posted May 8, 2022 Rayton-Fissore Magnum Italys own luxury off-roader Leyland Worldmaster, Austat, AnnoyingPentium and 3 others 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leyland Worldmaster Posted May 8, 2022 Share Posted May 8, 2022 5 hours ago, goosey said: Rayton-Fissore Magnum Italys own luxury off-roader Looks like a Fiat Uno that has consumed many pies! 🤓 SteersWithThrottle, RichardK, adw1977 and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted May 8, 2022 Share Posted May 8, 2022 7 hours ago, goosey said: Rayton-Fissore Magnum Italys own luxury off-roader Watched a video about these a while back goosey 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoverFolkUs Posted May 8, 2022 Share Posted May 8, 2022 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 AnnoyingPentium 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quicksilver Posted May 8, 2022 Share Posted May 8, 2022 @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. goosey 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 Just saw one of these - Lynk and Co Remspoor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lesapandre Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 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... catsinthewelder and egg 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrett Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 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??? bunglebus and mk2_craig 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lesapandre Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 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. JeeExEll and bunglebus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angle Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 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. egg, twosmoke300, JMotor and 14 others 15 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lesapandre Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteersWithThrottle Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobdisk Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 Could have been inertial navigation. Set up where you are on a moving map, a gyroscope senses movement, and moves the display to follow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angle Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 Yep, Honda had something similar working around the same time: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro_Gyrocator horriblemercedes and face 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteersWithThrottle Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 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 face and JeeExEll 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metal Guru Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeordieInExile Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 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. garethj, LightBulbFun, w00dy and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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