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26 minutes ago, martc said:

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Labelled as '1969 Mercedes-Benz C111, 1970 Mercedes-Benz C111-II and C-111 prototype' I guess that's in order back to front but I didn't know about any of them so your guess is as good as mine.

Used for testing rotary engines, then later - with BFO diesels - record breaking.

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53 minutes ago, martc said:

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Labelled as '1969 Mercedes-Benz C111, 1970 Mercedes-Benz C111-II and C-111 prototype' I guess that's in order back to front but I didn't know about any of them so your guess is as good as mine.

I had one when I was a kid.

https://www.dbcollectables.com/corgi-388-mercedes-benz-c111-mint-in-excellent-original-box

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2 hours ago, martc said:

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Labelled as '1969 Mercedes-Benz C111, 1970 Mercedes-Benz C111-II and C-111 prototype' I guess that's in order back to front but I didn't know about any of them so your guess is as good as mine.

Car with plate is 1969 C111, Car with big Benzo star on front is 1970 C111-II, car at rear is test mule. 12 C111s were built. The last two C111-III and C111-IIII were diesel powered and broke speed records at Nardo in the late 1970's

1976 C111-II D

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1977 C111-III

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1978 C111-IIII

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We had a discussion last month in the Shite in Miniature thread

 

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23 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

VAZ-Porsche 2103 from 1976

In 1975 Porsche’s chairman Ernst Fuhrmann met with the Soviet automotive industry minister Viktor Polyakov and agreed on a three-year partnership where Porsche would help design Ladas. This is the failed result of that partnership.

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I'm sure the Porsche bits are underneath, but on the surface I'd say that's quite a poor use of three years of development time. I'd be pretty disappointed with that if I was Lada.

Arguably, Lada were a bit more technologically advanced than Porsche was in 1975 - wasn't that around the time it was messing around with Rotary engines, etc? Whilst Porsche was still building cars based on a 1938 design in 1975, Lada was bang up to date with a 1966 car.

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19 hours ago, inconsistant said:

Thought it was one of those mini Mitsubishi Shogun thingys but badge says it’s a Nissan Kix.

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No, me neither.

After a quick look up of Shoguns on Wikipedia, this does appear to be a badge engineered version of the Shogun/Pajero Mini/Pinin’s second generation. 
 

This did also lead to another Nissan oddity - the Kicks. Which isn’t the Kix in the picture, but yet another SUV of some sort. Recycling and mangling of a nameplate by Nissan? - like Ford did with Cougar/Kuga? Only this time Nissan appeared to have reverted to the correct spelling with the later model.

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On 1/27/2023 at 4:55 PM, MiniMinorMk3 said:

VAZ-Porsche 2103 from 1976

In 1975 Porsche’s chairman Ernst Fuhrmann met with the Soviet automotive industry minister Viktor Polyakov and agreed on a three-year partnership where Porsche would help design Ladas. This is the failed result of that partnership.

 

The partnership did continue however and Porsche helped to develop the brand new FWD engine used in the Samara. The internet also suggests that they had a hand in designing the body work as well.

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