Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.

[Austat]

VW Golf Country:

[Austat]

Fiat 850 Vignale:

[bunglebus]

6 hours ago, Austat said:

VW Golf Country:

There's at least one in the UK, seen it at a show. You can buy a Matchbox version too.

[Richard_FM]

I was surprised to see a Saab hearse conversion today.

[Austat]

Fiat 125 S Coupe Samantha by Vignale:

[SteersWithThrottle]

11 hours ago, Austat said:

Fiat 125 S Coupe Samantha by Vignale:

#notamiura

[Volksy]

Those Fiat Samanthas are such a pretty car, 

IIRC back in the early ninetys one was spotted rotting away in the long stay car park at Alicante Airport. Think it was in the spotted/rust in peace section of 'Your Classic' magazine. 

[Slowsilver]

16 hours ago, bunglebus said:

There's at least one in the UK, seen it at a show. You can buy a Matchbox version too.

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On 2/18/2019 at 7:58 PM, Slowsilver said:

Never seen one of these before.
Golf Country.
4 wheel drive Volkswagen Golf.
Raised ride height, underbody protection, front and rear bull bars.
British registration but left-hand drive.
I think they all were as they were allegedly never sold over here.
Seen outside the industrial unit opposite where I work on 22/01/2018 then a few more times in the next week or so. Not seen again since.
 

 

[Austat]

NSU-Fiat Jagst Riviera Vignale Cabrio:

[martc]

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'.

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

[Lanciaman]

Can't get a copy of the pic but a 2008 panda 4x4.   A standard one but with the diesel engine.   Never knew they did these. Thought the diesel could only be had in the panda Cross.  In the uk anyway. 

https://www.gumtree.com/p/fiat/fiat-panda-4x4-turbo-diesel/1380368585

[17-Coffees]

This...

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! 

[Tayne]

You know there were electric mk1 and mk2 Golfs, don’t you?
 

https://dyler.com/posts/126/the-volkswagen-elektro-golf-an-electric-car-from-1976

[angle]

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. 

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

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

 

[GeordieInExile]

Those are so weird. Why didn't they just use their own IP instead of swapping...?

I'm reminded of the VW Hillman Hunter from Brazil. Which I'd really like one of.

[Richard_FM]

Latin America seems to get all sorts of odd rebranded cars, South Africa has also had some semantic oddballs.

[bunglebus]

10 hours ago, angle said:

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

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

[bunglebus]

8 hours ago, GeordieInExile said:

I'm reminded of the VW Hillman Hunter from Brazil. Which I'd really like one of.

Volkswagen 1500. Not to be confused with the Volkswagen 1500 from the 60s/70s

[angle]

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:

[Mr_Bo11ox]

On 8/1/2020 at 1:08 AM, Austat said:

Fiat 125 S Coupe Samantha by Vignale:

Jensen Interceptor doors on these! 

[JeeExEll]

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

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

[sheffcortinacentre]

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.

[Tamworthbay]

11 hours ago, JeeExEll said:

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

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.

[davocano]

On 7/29/2020 at 6:26 PM, bunglebus said:

Ah Gurgel. They make some truly weird shit.

Like a (hypothetical) Metro Streetwise, a Peugeot J7 and a Merc C126.

For ginormous children.

[adw1977]

On 03/08/2020 at 07:36, bunglebus said:

Volkswagen 1500. Not to be confused with the Volkswagen 1500 from the 60s/70s

Based on the Hillman Avenger?

[sheffcortinacentre]

Yes

[Austat]

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

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

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:

[17-Coffees]

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...

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! 

[Ghosty]

On 7/21/2020 at 4:20 PM, Remspoor said:

Where as in  the UK they hit the horn and swear a lot!

 

Watching that lead me to another video on their channel. 

And this at 9:00:

 


Streetwise Commerce?! 

Google suggests this is homebrew. 

[GeordieInExile]

Been looking at Tissier-modified Citroens. Awesome.