Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.

[J R Hartley]

Alfa Romeo Matta.

 

 

[RichardK]

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.

[barrett]

7 minutes ago, Inspiral_Mondays said:

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.

The Corgi Lancia has a side-opening bonnet, and later Whizzwheels versions had a black bonnet, but only available in orange or yellow. The Alfa had a front-hinged bonnet, and the Mebetoys model had this feature, but the Solido had a cast shut bonnet.

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, Inspiral_Mondays said:

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.

No problem, it was bugging me - and if I'd remembered it was a Fulvia I might have helped more then.  The only ones I can see with a black bonnet are yellow or orange. God I wish I hadn't got rid of the majority of the Corgi & Dinky models I had as a kid!

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, barrett said:

The Alfa had a front-hinged bonnet

Some might have done, but why would Corgi have done it differently?

Aha....!

Gorgeous, and only 1.3!

[RoverFolkUs]

Saw a Seat Exeo today. I was aware of them, but didn't realise they were basically an Audi A4 until today! I saw the door handles and thought "Audi" but then saw the badge!

 

[Dyslexic Viking]

Swift saloon

[catsinthewelder]

Only a matter of time really but saw my first Vauxhall Movano Mk3 this week.

So Vauxhall's new van has been available from a French manufacturer for the last 15 years, where have we seen that before? 

[cort16]

I've been watching this weird Korean series on Netflix call Taxi Driver, which is part The Equaliser, The french film Taxi and Person of Interest.

The main character drives a Hyundai Dynasty.  it kind of looks like a 90's Lincoln Continental.

[Austat]

Citroën Activa 2 concept:

[quicksilver]

On 4/23/2022 at 11:01 PM, catsinthewelder said:

Only a matter of time really but saw my first Vauxhall Movano Mk3 this week.

So Vauxhall's new van has been available from a French manufacturer for the last 15 years, where have we seen that before? 

Saw my first one of those last week too. At first I thought someone had just nailed a griffin badge to a Boxer as there's so little difference. A quick and dirty job I suppose as Stellantis wanted to put an end to Vauxhall paying royalties to their arch-rival ASAP.

 

On 4/21/2022 at 8:50 PM, RoverFolkUs said:

Saw a Seat Exeo today. I was aware of them, but didn't realise they were basically an Audi A4 until today! I saw the door handles and thought "Audi" but then saw the badge!

 

This too. The mid section looks identical to the Audi and only when I looked at the ends did I realise it wasn't one.