Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.

[Bear]

[Supernaut]

17 hours ago, RichardK said:

What are they, then?

[Bear]

10 minutes ago, Supernaut said:

What are they, then?

Fiat Campagnolo I believe, I'll have to check the catalogue... but the other?

The other is a DR Motors, probably a 5.0, which is a rebadged Chery Tiggo SUV for the Italian market - I had no idea they existed and they've been around since 2008ish!

[Missy Charm]

On the subject of weird Hyundais, have we had the 'Getz Cross'?  It really is called that.  I've seen one in real life, possibly on foreign plates, and recall finding the name amusing.  Were they sold over here?  

[Snake Charmer]

4 hours ago, Missy Charm said:

On the subject of weird Hyundais, have we had the 'Getz Cross'?  It really is called that.  I've seen one in real life, possibly on foreign plates, and recall finding the name amusing.  Were they sold over here?  

A car for Joe Pesci. (Leo Getz, Lethal Weapon II)

[Snake Charmer]

Standard Pennant.

[Datsuncog]

On 4/18/2022 at 9:29 PM, Remspoor said:

Was this a full production or a one off?

Coachbuilt special - I understand there were a total of four 130 Familiale estates built, all by the Como-based firm of Officine Introzzo.

Absolutely lovely cars, one of my all-time favourites.

On 4/18/2022 at 9:52 PM, NorfolkNWeigh said:

One off , the basket was for Gianni Agnelli’s skis, if my memory is correct.

Here's Agnelli's in action!

Glorious big barge.

[DSdriver]

16 hours ago, RichardK said:

Fiat Campagnolo I believe, I'll have to check the catalogue... but the other?

The other is a DR Motors, probably a 5.0, which is a rebadged Chery Tiggo SUV for the Italian market - I had no idea they existed and they've been around since 2008ish!

I had a pushbike with 5 speed Campagnolo gears which was considered to be quite racey back then but I always wanted a "double-clanger" 10 speed.

[Three Speed]

Campagnolo you say…

seen at Brooklands, just along from the Standard Pennant mentioned earlier.

[J R Hartley]

Alfa Romeo Matta.

 

 

[Bear]

School run:

Run away:

[Three Speed]

Alfa Romeo Zagato 

[Three Speed]

I like this

https://baevantare.co.uk/
 

[AnnoyingPentium]

16 hours ago, Missy Charm said:

On the subject of weird Hyundais, have we had the 'Getz Cross'?  It really is called that.  I've seen one in real life, possibly on foreign plates, and recall finding the name amusing.  Were they sold over here?  

Did they have a sporty one called Getz Raging?

[Missy Charm]

4 hours ago, Three Speed said:

I like this

https://baevantare.co.uk/
 

I like it too.  I don't think the design is quite resolved, for a number of reasons, but it's a nice looking car.  Goes to show how good the real DB5 was, however.  My criticism of the design is that it can't quite seem to decide whether it's an homage to the DB5, an evocation of sixties Aston Martins in general or something else.  It seems to be trying to  do all three at the same time.  

[barrett]

I think it looks fucking terrible

[bunglebus]

That Aston looks to me like it's overinflated by about 50%

[artdjones]

8 hours ago, DSdriver said:

I had a pushbike with 5 speed Campagnolo gears which was considered to be quite racey back then but I always wanted a "double-clanger" 10 speed.

Campagnolo means countryman, or possibly peasant.

Although I can't imagine a BMW Mini Peasant.

[Inspiral_Mondays]

7 hours ago, Three Speed said:

Alfa Romeo Zagato 

Sure I had a Dinky one of those back in the day, but unable to find any evidence online that such a thing actually existed.

[barrett]

2 hours ago, Inspiral_Mondays said:

Sure I had a Dinky one of those back in the day, but unable to find any evidence online that such a thing actually existed.

That'd be Solido or Mebetoys, as recently discussed on the Shite in Miniature thread

[High Jetter]

I am sure I had a bronze Alfa Romeo 'something' Sport Zagato, with a side opening bonnet. Might have had a side opening rear window too, and would have been Corgi or Dinky.

[Wibble]

10 hours ago, Three Speed said:

I like this

https://baevantare.co.uk/
 

That’s Bradley Walsh’s car. Was in the press quite a bit a few months back. Google him and “vantare” and site should come up.

[Wibble]

Just now, Wibble said:

That’s Bradley Walsh’s car. Was in the press quite a bit a few months back. Google him and “vantare” and site should come up.

Sorry, just realised you posted the site at start🤭

[Sham]

I'm not a fan. Looks like someone grafted some 1960s tail lights, and a set of Beetle headlights onto an Aston. Just doesn't quite work.

 

[barrett]

17 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

I am sure I had a bronze Alfa Romeo 'something' Sport Zagato, with a side opening bonnet. Might have had a side opening rear window too, and would have been Corgi or Dinky.

[High Jetter]

That is, as some say, the badger. 

3 minutes ago, barrett said:

That is, as some say, the badger, thanks.  I wonder if that's the one @Inspiral_Mondays had in mind.

[Snake Charmer]

18 hours ago, Three Speed said:

I like this

https://baevantare.co.uk/
 

I saw something similar a few years ago, a retro looking DB5, how long have they been about?

[D.E]

5 minutes ago, Snake Charmer said:

I saw something similar a few years ago, a retro looking DB5, how long have they beea about?

Not long (revealed in 2021, apparently). However, there is another modern sportscar-based DB5 design called the David Brown Speedback GT (which looks much better imho), and that one was first shown in 2014:

[barrett]

The Speedback is also horrid. I remember looking carefully at the prototype a few years ago and it was real classic British kit car quality - rusty phillips head screws holding the tail lamps on, that sort of thing.

Anyway, in better news. I am a bit obsessed with Peugeot's Roland Garros line. I can't think of any car which isn't improved by metallic green paint and a posh interior. I hate leather seats and I'd still love a leather-clad 106 or whatever. I recently discovered there was an 806 Roland Garros!!!! How amazing (and impractical for an MPV) does this look??

[Inspiral_Mondays]

18 hours ago, High Jetter said:

That is, as some say, the badger. 

That is, as some say, the badger, thanks.  I wonder if that's the one @Inspiral_Mondays had in mind.

Thanks for digging that out, and also the other suggestions. It could have been the one, though in my mind‘s eye it was grey, like the real one above, with a black, sideways opening bonnet. But this would have been ca. 1973 so who knows.