Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.

[twosmoke300]

And I assume , the engine the other way round to the a4 ?

[skattrd]

Yes but isn't an A3 saloon a Jetta, when the A4 is a Passat? or Octavia/Superb etc etc.

[twosmoke300]

Octavia is a golf underneath isn't it ?

[Alusilber]

You are correct, there is an A3 saloon. Its for those people who want something exactly the same as an A4 saloon but, crucially, it's two centimetres shorter. Its very exciting. I would love to work in marketing, it must be a very fulfilling way to pass the day.

 

Actually, the A4 has grown so much, the A3 saloon is almost A FOOT shorter! (according to Wikipedia)

[stormee]

The RAF "Latvia" (Latvija), Rafik, 2203:

I had a 40km ride in one of that, it is real shite!

[cros]

Why?

[Slappy]

Developing markets?

 

Never knew there was a Wankel engine Lada!

[vulgalour]

The Singer SM1500, or Hunter, or just SM depending where you look.  Discovered when browsing eBay and this particular example I find very appealing.

 

 

 

This one appears to be a pre-facelift jobby so must be one of the very last, in 1952 (relying on Wikipedia here, sorry) the headlights were lifted outside the line of that clumsy front panel.  I like the awkward styling of it with the too-high cabin and that very kit-car-esque front panel.  It looks sturdy and sensible, the sort of thing you'd expect a British company to be producing post-war.

 

This one is the facelift, you can see the grille is wider and the headlights pushed up and outwards.  It helps a bit, but not a lot, it needs the later facelift of the Hunter (seen in black behind the SM in the first picture) to really start looking like a properly styled car rather than one made to perform a task.

[Kiltox]

Had no idea the Proton Jumbuck existed until I saw the one that is currently for sale - so much want

[cros]

Someone I know works on a fruit farm that has Jumbucks for running around. They work, are cheap, and I can't think of anything else similar at the price but apparently people complain that they are too basic. Presumably they mean it doesn't have a heated cock-rest or something. In my day basic meant no passenger seat.

[SiC]

Renault Fluence

(at least in RHD form)

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201501110084608

 

Not exactly the most pretty Renault ever

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Renault Effluence(at least in RHD form)

I can see see why, but am not sure the name will help sell it...

[cros]

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6 grand & batts extra.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

"Yeah i'll take it without the batteries thanks"

[Spottedlaurel]

The Singer SM1500, or Hunter, or just SM depending where you look.  Discovered when browsing eBay and this particular example I find very appealing.

 

The Singer was a new one to me too when I saw it in this old photo a few years back. I assumed it was something else with a blank front panel cobbled-up after accident damage…..

 

1899 Benz, Singer SM1500 and 1960 Vauxhall (1962) by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

[Dick Cheeseburger]

In keeping with the Renault Effluence above, I give you the Renault Flatulence. First time I'd seen one was when we were holidaying in the South of France two years ago, and there was a dusty looking example on the sea front at St Tropez. Seen several over here since, but they certainly don't seem common. If I had to have a Renault floppytop, I'd have one of these I reckon.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

I hadn't heard of a VX Ampera until I spotted one in Newquay a few months ago. Turns out its GM's leccy offering. Unusually, I quite like big, clumpy looking Vauxhalls, and this thing looked OK in the flesh. Certainly less shit than the wobbly looking Datsun Leaves. I like this lady.

[STUNO]

How about this one as a quiz? The question is not what it is but what is it badged as?

 

I personally photographed it in South-West Texas 2002, I have never seen another.

 

 

 

 

 

My neighbour had one of these in the mid-80's, bought new and badged as an Isuzu Gemini Coupe, probably with 1300 power.

[vulgalour]

Amperas are one of those things that I knew about and hadn't seen until earlier this year, they do look better in person than in photographs even with their strange wheels trying very hard to look like ordinary wheels.  I wouldn't go so far as to say I like them, but they certainly do a good job of looking like an entirely conventional modern day car.

[SiC]

We seem to have quite a few around here in Bristol - but then we get a lot of electric cars. E.g. going to work today I spotted a Twizzy, Zoe, 2x Leafs and a Tesla.

 

 

 

 

How many of them did you have to Google?

Probably helps we have a lot of electric car charging points and often are the very rare car park spaces that are actually free during the day!

[MarvinsMom]

My neighbour had one of these in the mid-80's, bought new and badged as an Isuzu Gemini Coupe, probably with 1300 power.

i take it that this is related to the kadette coupe thing that is itself based on a chevette?

 

i cannot remember what the platform was called but there was a GM version of the same car for each different market, europe, japan, the uk and america. some one on here will know what the proper name is....

[AlabamaShrimp]

Vauxhall Cascade? Saw it on Wikipedia never seen a real one

 

[Kiltox]

Someone I know works on a fruit farm that has Jumbucks for running around. They work, are cheap, and I can't think of anything else similar at the price but apparently people complain that they are too basic. Presumably they mean it doesn't have a heated cock-rest or something. In my day basic meant no passenger seat.

To me it's the modern less rusty answer to the Skoda Felicia pickup which are quickly disappearing

[Kiltox]

Vauxhall Cascade? Saw it on Wikipedia never seen a real one

 

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Only ever seen one in the metal and it was beige.

 

Want to hate it but it has to be future autoshite material

[inconsistant]

Just back from that Switzerland and am reporting these previously unknown cars, which were all fleeting viewages so subject to possible error:

1. Opel badged Fiat Dublo van type thing

2. Small Subaru car, badged Tre-something. Looked a bit Honda Jazzy.

3. Convertible Toyota Sera? (this sounds unlikely, maybe another similar Toyota model?

 

 

Also today I saw a 4 door saloon Nissan Almera and I didn't know they did one. It looked so tedious I could actually feel my adrenaline sighing.

[Slappy]

Opel is the Combo probably. More of a Fiat design, but it's probably still on the Corsa platform because the present Corsa and the present(-ish) Punto were designed during GM and Fiat's joint venture.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

i take it that this is related to the kadette coupe thing that is itself based on a chevette?

 

i cannot remember what the platform was called but there was a GM version of the same car for each different market, europe, japan, the uk and america. some one on here will know what the proper name is....

You've just reminded me, there was green Chevette Coupe driving around in Milton Keynes in the early 80's. I don't think it was homemade VX front on a Kadett, must have been a proposal that was sold off to staff( Luton is just down the road).

[oldcars]

Need to try and get a photo. The badge on the front said Verte. It was a pickup, looks a bit like a Holden Maloo/Vauxhall Carlton cross. Smart thing on a 04 plate.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Need to try and get a photo. The badge on the front said Verte. It was a pickup, looks a bit like a Holden Maloo/Vauxhall Carlton cross. Smart thing on a 04 plate.

That'll be a Falcon Ute with LPG, there was a British company bringing them in gassing them then pushing the green Eco angle- hence verte.

[oldcars]

That'll be a Falcon Ute with LPG, there was a British company bringing them in gassing them then pushing the green Eco angle- hence verte.

Cheers been wondering what it was all day, a google of verte did'nt show anything and it did look Aussie.