Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.

[martc]

Wartburg 353-400, from 1970-71, one of 8 experiments with plastic bodies.

[Remspoor]

Minnow GT

https://minimarcos.org.uk/altpics/minnow.html

[High Jetter]

Saw one of these today, can't remember noticing one before. A SUV with only 2 passenger doors:

Why?

[Remspoor]

1 hour ago, High Jetter said:

Why?

Because....

[artdjones]

1 hour ago, High Jetter said:

Saw one of these today, can't remember noticing one before. A SUV with only 2 passenger doors:

Why?

Are you sure? I see a shut line going down the rear quarter panel and a possible handle at the rear of the rear window.

[adw1977]

Yeah, I think Honda have cunningly concealed the rear doors.  Probably more obvious in lighter colours.

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, Remspoor said:

Because....

Makes sense tho?

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, artdjones said:

Are you sure? I see a shut line going down the rear quarter panel and a possible handle at the rear of the rear window.

Nah, 2 dr. Google checks out

 

[Pieman]

Hyundai Bayon.  Had one as a hire car in Holland last weekend, had never heard of it before.

[bunglebus]

More to the point what's with the weird image that drives off the side of my phone screen?

 

[RayMK]

2 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Nah, 2 dr. Google checks out

 

Honda's website shows all of the details,  including the 'coupe' styling which features hidden rear door handles.  No mention of a two (or 3) door version. Only 5 doors.  Anyway, I don't like it.  It's like a Nissan Juke with most of the ugly bits ironed flat,  just leaving a dumpy, ill-proportioned look that we are supposed to admire.   

[Timewaster]

I have a real hate for concealed rear for handles.

I just don't get it.

Did anyone think the Alfa 156 was a 2 door coupe? 

No.

Now these lifestyle bullshit blobs like the H-RV above and particularly the Toyota CHR have rear door handles almost in the roofline.

Tiny rear doors and a low roof mean the rear is only suitable for children....Who can't reach the handle?!

[artdjones]

8 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Nah, 2 dr. Google checks out

 

Who to believe. Google, or my lying eyes?

[EyesWeldedShut]

34 minutes ago, artdjones said:

Who to believe. Google, or my lying eyes?

 

[High Jetter]

58 minutes ago, artdjones said:

Who to believe. Google, or my lying eyes?

Looks like I'm wrong, again. I still don't like the look of it though.

[EyesWeldedShut]

17 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Looks like I'm wrong, again. I still don't like the look of it though.

My wife got me a T shirt with that written on it - 42" chest any good  
And I agree - that's Fugly.
Went to the East Midlands last weekend (i.e. richer that around here so stuff newer than a 15 plate  ) and we were behind three SUV thingies at a junction sat up in the van cab- missus remarked that there were three identical marques of car in a row as we looked over the rooflines -  they were actually a Skoda, Hyundai and (I think) a Kia at the front. Subtly different here and there but so bland (and fugly)

[artdjones]

34 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Looks like I'm wrong, again. I still don't like the look of it though.

Now that's something we can both agree on🙂

[martc]

18 minutes ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

Went to the East Midlands last weekend (i.e. richer that around here so stuff newer than a 15 plate  ) and we were behind three SUV thingies at a junction sat up in the van cab- missus remarked that there were three identical marques of car in a row as we looked over the rooflines -  they were actually a Skoda, Hyundai and (I think) a Kia at the front. Subtly different here and there but so bland (and fugly)

 

 

[EyesWeldedShut]

13 minutes ago, martc said:

 

 

I've printed that out and pasted it up in the cab alongside my other identification sheets so we'll be safe from enemy raiders...

[MiniMinorMk3]

14 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Saw one of these today, can't remember noticing one before. A SUV with only 2 passenger doors:

 

 

The Grandaddy of them all had two doors

[bunglebus]

No?

[High Jetter]

I meant modernz, not those sensible old things!

[DSdriver]

5 hours ago, Timewaster said:

Did anyone think the Alfa 156 was a 2 door coupe? 

No.

Did anyone have to ask how to open the back doors?

Yes.

😁

[EyesWeldedShut]

I had a p/time job at the village petrol station (circa 1978 ish) where there was still an attended service. Had a hell of a job finding the filler cap on one of these (to the owner's amusement - but I did live in Hicksville).
It did have proper door handles tho'

[MiniMinorMk3]

1 minute ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

I had a p/time job at the village petrol station (circa 1978 ish) where there was still an attended service. Had a hell of a job finding the filler cap on one of these (to the owner's amusement - but I did live in Hicksville).
It did have proper door handles tho'

Discretely hidden inside the c-pillar vents.

[D.E]

Stafford, from Stafford.

https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1554462

[MiniMinorMk3]

1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

No?

Land Rover were so behind the times

 

1946 Willys Station Wagon

1948 Jeepster

[EyesWeldedShut]

7 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Discretely hidden inside the c-pillar vents.

Imagine a blushing teenager with petrol pump in hand wandering around the car whilst grizzled, Autoshite type driver grins knowingly in the background. XJ (6??) guy also got a laugh when I only filled up one saddle tank.
Thinking about it - we did 4*, 2* and marine diesel - no DERV - changed days.

[MiniMinorMk3]

11 minutes ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

Imagine a blushing teenager with petrol pump in hand wandering around the car whilst grizzled, Autoshite type driver grins knowingly in the background. XJ (6??) guy also got a laugh when I only filled up one saddle tank.
Thinking about it - we did 4*, 2* and marine diesel - no DERV - changed days.

I had a job at an attended Shell garage on the A21. We did 2, 3 and 4*. We had a blending pump that mixed the 2 and 4 from the tanks. Luckily the DERV pump had a small lock on th elever so you didn't have to hold the nozzle when filling up the big trucks. It could take up to 5 minutes to do just one tank, even with the fast flowing big nozzle.

Worst things to fill up were 2-door Metros, with their low filler neck. You couldn't feed them too fast as they would vomit the fuel back all over your feet.

[Metal Guru]

3 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

I had a job at an attended Shell garage on the A21. We did 2, 3 and 4*. We had a blending pump that mixed the 2 and 4 from the tanks. Luckily the DERV pump had a small lock on th elever so you didn't have to hold the nozzle when filling up the big trucks. It could take up to 5 minutes to do just one tank, even with the fast flowing big nozzle.

Worst things to fill up were 2-door Metros, with their low filler neck. You couldn't feed them too fast as they would vomit the fuel back all over your feet.

What was 3* all about? Surely there weren’t any cars that were so fragile they couldn’t run on 2 or 4* instead.