Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.

[Quintus]

On 12/2/2022 at 11:35 PM, Schaefft said:

Available as hybrid v6 and n/a v8, also in convertible form. Should I ever have the money a sport+ v8 coupe in red is a must buy, dream car for me.

Same here. A fantastic car that deserves greater sales success.

[J R Hartley]

On 12/7/2022 at 9:13 AM, martc said:

That's the fella. 

Lyon's version was much faster, and with less corduroy.

William Towns. There's a  man who knew a straight line when he saw one.

[Alusilber]

On 10/22/2022 at 1:41 PM, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Both Nissan and Renault have sold their stakes in the company for a nominal amount with a buy back clause, so my guess would be that the Aleko maybe on the cards.

Alas, there will be no 21st century resurrected  Aleko...

https://www.carscoops.com/2022/11/soviet-era-moskvich-returns-with-a-rebadged-chinese-crossover/

[martc]

Citroën GS Camargue concept (1972).

[MiniMinorMk3]

Ligier Renault 14 

[High Jetter]

Just why? The R14 wasn't a bad looker, that's just odd.

[MiniMinorMk3]

It's the bastard love child of a Volvo 480 and a Lambo Diablo.

[catsinthewelder]

Doesn't look rusty though.

[MiniMinorMk3]

Suzuki Might Boy

[Missy Charm]

Lada Tarzan:

For some reason, Lada decided to put a Samara body on a Niva chassis to create a sort of car bodied, road going monster truck. The off road abilities would have been prodigious, but the on-road manners lacking, one assumes.

[Metal Guru]

7 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Suzuki Might Boy

A pick up you could put one crate of beer in? How useful!

[High Jetter]

How big are your crates? Loadsa beer could fit in there.

[Metal Guru]

2 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

How big are your crates? Loadsa beer could fit in there.

OK a few crates . I was just pointing out as a commercial vehicle, it’s rather limited in its applications.

[High Jetter]

I think recreational rather than commercial 

[Metal Guru]

7 hours ago, High Jetter said:

I think recreational rather than commercial 

Even then it’s a bit limited. Pair of football boots and kit?, roller skates? Tennis racquet ? OK.

Golf clubs , no, bike, no, skis, no, fishing rods,no, surfboard , no….

Maybe the weekly shop but only if you live alone!

[MiniMinorMk3]

11 hours ago, High Jetter said:

I think recreational rather than commercial 

 

3 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Even then it’s a bit limited. Pair of football boots and kit?, roller skates? Tennis racquet ? OK.

It's one of those Japanese Kei-Car things, so cheaper tax and other incentives.

[tul66]

On 12/12/2022 at 8:13 AM, Metal Guru said:

Even then it’s a bit limited. Pair of football boots and kit?, roller skates? Tennis racquet ? OK.

Golf clubs , no, bike, no, skis, no, fishing rods,no, surfboard , no….

Maybe the weekly shop but only if you live alone!

I'm 100% certain you'd live alone if you were driving that thing.

[Alan_Green]

Skoda Yeti Pickup.

[Remspoor]

1 hour ago, Alan_Green said:

Skoda Yeti Pickup.

https://www.carscoops.com/2022/10/quirky-skoda-yeti-pickup-exists-in-one-off-prototype-form/

[Yoss]

2 hours ago, Alan_Green said:

Skoda Yeti Pickup.

Ooh, I like that. 

[Timewaster]

I followed one of these yesterday.

(Stock photo, not the actual car)

You could see the rear axle beneath the silver under tray.

Never knew they did a 4x4 swift in this shape.

[Spurious]

7 minutes ago, Timewaster said:

I followed one of these yesterday.

(Stock photo, not the actual car)

You could see the rear axle beneath the silver under tray.

Never knew they did a 4x4 swift in this shape.

Yea there's one round here. 

Didn't know either they did a 4wd until I drove behind it, seen the rear half shafts doing their thing. 

Presume it was a panda 4x4 rival at the time. 

[bunglebus]

Before Ford started lopping the roof off Fox body Mustangs (literally) in '83, you could get a "Carriage Roof" that just looked like a convertible

I say literally as apparently that's exactly what they did - built as saloons, then Ford cut the roofs off and shipped them to a specialist who returned them as convertibles for final inspection

[SteersWithThrottle]

53 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Before Ford started lopping the roof off Fox body Mustangs (literally) in '83, you could get a "Carriage Roof" that just looked like a convertible

I say literally as apparently that's exactly what they did - built as saloons, then Ford cut the roofs off and shipped them to a specialist who returned them as convertibles for final inspection

The scuttle shake must have been something to experience

[Bear]

On 12/6/2022 at 1:38 PM, bunglebus said:

Look everyone, it's the Citroen DS9 E Tense

I've driven one of those. It's the best C5 II yet.

[AnnoyingPentium]

On 12/15/2022 at 5:05 PM, Timewaster said:

I followed one of these yesterday.

(Stock photo, not the actual car)

You could see the rear axle beneath the silver under tray.

Never knew they did a 4x4 swift in this shape.

I've driven one of the 4x4 ones, bland but still neat to see a toaty 4x4 one.

[Madman Of The People]

On 12/15/2022 at 1:31 PM, bunglebus said:

Before Ford started lopping the roof off Fox body Mustangs (literally) in '83, you could get a "Carriage Roof" that just looked like a convertible

I say literally as apparently that's exactly what they did - built as saloons, then Ford cut the roofs off and shipped them to a specialist who returned them as convertibles for final inspection

These faux-convertibles were all the rage in the US back in the 1980s.  On many cars, you could even get your fake convertible with a sunroof, which went some way towards spoiling the impression that you had a convertible!

 

[Remspoor]

The Jac ES1 because of this video.

Produced in China and Mexico.

Wiki on the manufacture JAC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAC_Motors Links with the VW group. Even sold in Switzerland.

The wiki about this car. Wiki calls this the Sehol E10X.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sehol_E10X

[MiniMinorMk3]

Skoda Type 736 Buggy

Lesser-known models from ŠKODA AUTO’s 125-year history: The ŠKODA BUGGY Type 736 - ŠKODA Storyboard (skoda-storyboard.com)

 

[OM646]

12 hours ago, Remspoor said:

The Jac ES1 because of this video.

Produced in China and Mexico.

Wiki on the manufacture JAC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAC_Motors Links with the VW group. Even sold in Switzerland.

The wiki about this car. Wiki calls this the Sehol E10X.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sehol_E10X

fun fact: Sehol was born as SOL, Spanish for Sun, and it was gonna be the JAC-VW joint venture brand 

Why Spanish? Because they wanted to badge their first car as a SEAT for China (in one of many attempts of dumping SEAT from VAG) so they got SEAT to restyle a JAC