Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.

[Ohdearme]

I knew the Japanese likes their ‘homage cars’ but never seen a Pajero Junior ‘flying pig’ before apparently this is a rare as hens teeth, only about 139 ever sold but quite who’d want to save this horror is beyond me.

Seller has admirably taken loads of pics yet has still to capture a good angle...

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202011116013846

[Low Horatio gearbox]

The Stutz Defender. Based on a Chevy suburban  but with..more punch.  In the form of a fifty cal

[Remspoor]

Hurtan, made in Andalusia, Spain.

Several models made.

The Grand Albaycín is a copy of a British car. A mix of Jag and Morgan.

The Author, which for me has elements of a Fiat 500 Gamine, but ugly chunky.

The Vintage. A people carrier version of a Asquith Shire?

Lastly there is Route 44. Aimed at the food truck market. Look at the panel gap. 😁

[ProgRocker]

1990 Isuzu Impulse. 1.6 engine and 130 bhp which seems impressive for the time. I really like the front end styling...

 

[martc]

GAZ-M20 Pobeda Sport  prototype, 1951, based on one of these -

[somewhatfoolish]

That wouldn't have looked out of place at a 50s Bonneville Speed Week.

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Shit. I have only just discovered this exists. Now I know what I'll be trying to drive when I'm 80 years old.

There gentlemen is plah in modern brown. They have even replicated the look of those cheap wheel trims that you find up trees along the side of the motorway, although these are alloys. Basically it's a V8 stype with these rimz and chrome mirror covers but still, it has the badge, and that's what counts.

I am still trying to work out why I am so excited to discover this.

Currently, we are trying to establish if there was a legit Sovereign trim release.

[OM646]

6 hours ago, Crispian_J_Hotson said:

Shit. I have only just discovered this exists. Now I know what I'll be trying to drive when I'm 80 years old.

There gentlemen is plah in modern brown. They have even replicated the look of those cheap wheel trims that you find up trees along the side of the motorway, although these are alloys. Basically it's a V8 stype with these rimz and chrome mirror covers but still, it has the badge, and that's what counts.

I am still trying to work out why I am so excited to discover this.

Currently, we are trying to establish if there was a legit Sovereign trim release.

Oh well...

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

SHUT THE FRONT DOOR!

[face]

On 2/20/2021 at 10:35 AM, Ohdearme said:

I knew the Japanese likes their ‘homage cars’ but never seen a Pajero Junior ‘flying pig’ before apparently this is a rare as hens teeth, only about 139 ever sold but quite who’d want to save this horror is beyond me.

Seller has admirably taken loads of pics yet has still to capture a good angle...

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202011116013846

[bunglebus]

Volvo XD-1 diesel speed record car

And 363CS V6

[martc]

It's called a Manta, but I don't think it's an Opel. What is it?

[High Jetter]

It has a bit of a Lambo look, but isn't. (I cheated to find out)

[Supernaut]

The 2020 Laikipia BJ-50.

https://smallcarsclub.com/catalog/laikipia/laikipia-bj-50/

[vulgalour]

That's the most optimistic thing I've seen this year.

[JimH]

On 2/27/2021 at 4:46 PM, martc said:

It's called a Manta, but I don't think it's an Opel. What is it?

It's a Bizzarini. The interior is really nice.

[adw1977]

5 hours ago, Supernaut said:

The 2020 Laikipia BJ-50.

https://smallcarsclub.com/catalog/laikipia/laikipia-bj-50/

The hand painted model name sets it off nicely.  I don't think the Kenyan car industry is going to be causing the Japanese any sleepless nights.

Although Laikipia seem to have already come up with a facelift:

Much better.

[17-Coffees]

The RAM 700...

Thanks to FCA, the RAM brand got alot of Fiat based commercial stuff sold North America, see the Ram Promaster range for example. The 700 though, is sold in south & central America, and is just a Fiat Strada pickup with a RAM front end.  

I'm sure somewhere Dodge have plans to drop the Hellcat engine in it... 😆

[georgeinabz]

The RAM 700...

Thanks to FCA, the RAM brand got alot of Fiat based commercial stuff sold North America, see the Ram Promaster range for example. The 700 though, is sold in south & central America, and is just a Fiat Strada pickup with a RAM front end.  
I'm sure somewhere Dodge have plans to drop the Hellcat engine in it... 

I would buy that , better than the overgrown pickups now on the road , Hyundai pony pick up , caddy pickup , Subaru ,p100 all gone.


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[RoadworkUK]

This is an absolutely unfounded allegation, but the only purpose I can imagine for enterprises like Kenya's Laikipia and Uganda's Kiira Motors is for fraudulent reappropriation of government subsidy under the auspices of "creating a domestic manufacturing industry".  As was proven in communist states, marketing a hideously outclassed product can work in a captive market with very limited overseas imports, but central African states have absolutely no shortage of imported machinery to serve their transport needs. 

I mean, every industry has to start somewhere, but encouraging respected international marques into the country to employ your labour force is surely an infinitely better idea than trying to compete against them with products cobbled together from half-formed thoughts and ambitious intent.

[bunglebus]

This, apparently, is a Metro Banham Rio

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/447974816552842/

[HillmanImp]

Did we get the VW Type notchback over here? Lad put one online today and I can honestly say I can't remember ever seeing one.

Or do I see them all the time and my age and lifestyle are catching up with me?

[STUNO]

we did in my over here. They were relatively common.

[Mr Pastry]

15 minutes ago, HillmanImp said:

Did we get the VW Type notchback over here?

Yes, but there were never many of them around.  The fastbacks and 411s were more numerous but still not that popular.  

[bunglebus]

We got them but America didn't. Most uncommon were the later "facelifted" ones, which look a bit odd with the flat front, big rear lights and Europa bumpers

 

[JimH]

I had a very early pre N/S one. Most T3s here were Fastbacks or Variants and Notches weren’t very common. I believe that imports of notches was pretty much zero when the square bumpered ones appeared.

 I love them and were I ever to suffer a major head injury I’d have another.

[High Jetter]

They really stood out, for some reason. 1602 & 1603?

[Austat]

Owen Sedanca:

[Rustybullethole]

Ok so it’s a modern but;

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2020-DFSK-Loadhopper-C35-Un-Registered-Unused-Van-Petrol-Manual/274706776366?hash=item3ff5ccc12e:g:HycAAOSwlu1gV259

kinda reminds me of something....

[Faker]

28 minutes ago, Rustybullethole said:

Ok so it’s a modern but;

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2020-DFSK-Loadhopper-C35-Un-Registered-Unused-Van-Petrol-Manual/274706776366?hash=item3ff5ccc12e:g:HycAAOSwlu1gV259

kinda reminds me of something....

Look a bit like the old ford transit. Chinese manufacturers making a Suzuki Carry / Hi-Jet / Subaru sambar sized micro van.

Not cheap either