Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.

[Bmwdumptruck]

12 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

That looks like a Vicarage conversion to me. Vicarage have been restoring Mk2 Jags since the late 1980's and will build you a bespoke Cabriolet Mk2 and looks like they will do a Daimler to..

 

Vicarage Jaguar MK2 Convertible - Smallman Hall (smallman-hall.com)

Thanks, very intersting. Absolutely love it, the shape really lends itself to the conversion, just so nice.  That with the v8 burble of the daimler version…..🤤

[gtd2000]

15 hours ago, Supernaut said:

On the other side of the coin, you could get a Chevrolet Forester in India.

We used to have a Saab 9-2x when I was based in Florida.

Was a Subaru Impreza Sports-wagon with some upgrades and a fancy Saab badge. Only available for a couple of years I think?

[Spiny Norman]

Idly scrolling through eBay classic cars as you do, yielded this late 60s Yo!JDM Honda I've never heard of in my life.

[bunglebus]

Ikenga GT

The Ikenga GT is a series of three prototype GT automobile designs that were built in the United Kingdom between 1967 and 1969. The MkI, MkII and MkIII were the three styling iterations

[sierraman]

21 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

That looks like a Vicarage conversion to me. Vicarage have been restoring Mk2 Jags since the late 1980's and will build you a bespoke Cabriolet Mk2 and looks like they will do a Daimler to..

 

Vicarage Jaguar MK2 Convertible - Smallman Hall (smallman-hall.com)

Noel Gallagher had one. 

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, sierraman said:

Noel Gallagher had one. 

I heard it was unreliable and he had to start it downhill. Yeh, he had to roll with it!

[Supernaut]

1 hour ago, Metal Guru said:

I heard it was unreliable and he had to start it downhill. Yeh, he had to roll with it!

[gtd2000]

I found some old pics of the Saab in my downloaded Photobucket folder.

[Metal Guru]

2 hours ago, gtd2000 said:

I found some old pics of the Saab in my downloaded Photobucket folder.

Surely a Saabaru?

[bunglebus]

Just found this in Oslo, marked up as a Buddy electric vehicle. Rear discs!

[bunglebus]

And these electric quad things doing parcel deliveries 

[bunglebus]

Another one - BAW Pony according to the badges - and RHD

[face]

On 27/08/2024 at 00:20, somewhatfoolish said:

[MiniMinorMk3]

28 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Another one - BAW Pony according to the badges - and RHD

 

 

 

They should sell those in Scotland with a model name BAG.

[bunglebus]

Another I saw but didn't pap - Chataenet

Different body styles too

[martc]

On 02/09/2024 at 23:49, AnthonyG said:

The long-established Hereford Mitsubishi dealer now sells KGMs, which appear to be rebadged Ssanyongs. No idea what KGM means/stands for and if that’s just for the UK or across Europe.

KGM is the new name for Ssangyong. KG Mobility Corporation is the latest in a long line of companies (Daewoo, SAIC, Mahindra) to rescue Ssangyong from bankruptcy.

They decided, from March 2023, to rebrand in an attempt at a clean break from the old 'tainted' name. Ssangyongs are now KGM's throughout the world.

They've kept the logo though, which represents a dragon.

[catsinthewelder]

Feels like a bad idea,  KGM sounds like a new Chinese brand if you don't know about the rebrand.   Admittedly Ssangyong doesn't have the brand cachet of Land Rover (or even Vauxhall) but people will grudgingly admit they're reliable.

[Timewaster]

On 28/08/2024 at 11:18, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Looking into the Lada MPV these turned up. I never knew they did a four door Niva.

Basic

Lounge

 

Definitely can't see the join. 

[somewhatfoolish]

The raised seam in the roof panel is joyously half-arsed.

[High Jetter]

6 hours ago, martc said:

They've kept the logo though, which represents a dragon.

How, exactly?

[martc]

11 hours ago, High Jetter said:

How, exactly?

Quote 

'....is as close as possible to the phrase “SsangYong,” which, in South Korean translation, means “twin dragon.” Therefore, the logo features two wings united by a common figured element. Each side has three strokes of different lengths and widths: the inner “feathers” are wide, and the outer ones are narrow'. 

https://logos-world.net/ssangyong-logo/

You can sort of see the two wings, but I'd have thought it was one dragon, rather than two. Also, not sure that dragons have feathers. Turkeys do.

Turns out they may have.

 

 

 

[MiniMinorMk3]

What a pity Renault are not going to build this.

R17 electric restomod x Ora Ïto show-car - Renault

[danthecapriman]

Here’s one I spotted on a YouTube video last night. 
Odd thing to see in London. Shame I can’t make out the number plate.

It was one of those ‘WTF did I just see!?’ Moments. 
I know they made the small hatchback Yugo/Zastava in van form but had no idea these things were also vans. I did initially think it was possibly just someone got a car version cheap and panelled over the back windows to make a van, but…

https://autoblog.rs/blog/auto/resurs/avgust-2013-11/101193

[vonmon]

What’s this?

[D.E]

11 minutes ago, vonmon said:

What’s this?

Mitsuoka Galue.

[vonmon]

Thanks, new one to me!

[bunglebus]

Both VW and Ssangyyong (or whatever they're called this week) have E-Motion trim levels. 

Quite a good play on words I suppose, but I still think Volkswagen are pulling our legs with the E-Up....

[lesapandre]

They also do the Bi-Gumm

[quicksilver]

22 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

What a pity Renault are not going to build this.

R17 electric restomod x Ora Ïto show-car - Renault

With a steering wheel nicked from an Allegro for extra 70s cool*.

[Metal Guru]

13 minutes ago, quicksilver said:

With a steering wheel nicked from an Allegro for extra 70s cool*.

Interior design by Gerry Anderson.