Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.

[5speedracer]

This weird looking thing from Hyundai, a 2012 Genesis, that has a 3.8 litre engine! The Mrs keeps seeing one around Newmarket

 

Not a Mercedes clone in any shape or form then

 

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[Mr Bump]

It's a 250 GTO compared to this abomination

 

 

 

Is it just me, but does the front of the current Prius look like the Batmobile?

[Negative Creep]

Is it just me, but does the front of the current Prius look like the Batmobile?

 

 

There is actually a black one down the road from me, which is probably the best colour since it hides so much. In terms of looks it's very much the Batman & Robin of the car world

[Vince70]

How about a Morris Nomad.

It's basically a kind of Frankenstein Austin1300/Maxi with an E series engine built in Australia.

 

Also I can never understand why BL spent a fortune on the allegro when they had this lovely 1300 being built in South Africa from 71 onwards surely just giving the 1300 a new skin would have made it a winner it's not as if the 1300 would of been obsolete in the 70s as Ford had been getting away with it for years.

[quicksilver]

Agreed 100% on the Apache. It would have made a perfect small Triumph to replace the 1300 as I postulated in my alternative reality scenario I created a while ago. Sadly BL never seemed to pay enough attention to what their overseas subsidiaries were doing - see also Austin Kimberley/Tasman.

[mercrocker]

Amazes me still what variety was had out of the ADO16....My first wife's NZ uncle had a Nomad which I still have a photo of somewhere.  He reckoned it was called that because it wandered all over the bloody road.  

[DodgyBastard]

IZh-27175 by Rob, on Flickr

[Bfg]

^ That looks angry to still be alive

[sheffcortinacentre]

Wasn't the apache avl in Spain too?

[Rod/b]

Now built in France under a new name: http://www.mpm-motors.com/en/

http://boitierrouge.com/2016/11/29/mpm-motors-ps-160-une-voiture-francaise-a-larriere-gout-de-vodka/

https://www.leboncoin.fr/voitures/1093345060.htm?ca=12_s

 

I really wonder how on earth they can supposedly sell it for 8,500 Euros and make a profit.

What's the point other than "cheap"? Looks like something Proton rejected

[cros]

You've got less chance of finding one of these than Cliff Richards has of locating a clitoris.

Quite a handsome thing, would like one. (the car, that is.)

[cros]

A Bentley Cresta to froth over.

Looks better than the grotesque monstrosities they make now.

[0ldCh0d]

I have not read through this entire thread, so if this has been posted already, I apologise..

 

2011 Ford Figo....

 

 

 

Autoshite Edition...

 

[Bfg]

A Bentley Cresta to froth over.

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Looks better than the grotesque monstrosities they make now.

 

.. never heard of that one ..  great find 

 

^ definitely not typical Bentley styling with a raked back grille.  Looks like Cadillac tried to 'almost copy' it.

 

Can you imagine just a few years ago (..to me it seems) cars like these could be picked up for a pittance because they were so expensive on fuel and to restore..   oh if only I had been wiser then !

 

 

 

Mind you I'd never seen this one either ..

 

..clearly I've been mixing in the wrong double-0 circles..

[Adrian_pt]

i had no idea the Spanish R8 made it, with a facelift, till 1976...

[barrett]

That R-type is a potatoshop, thankfully. The Cresta is by Pininfarina, hence not looking like a normal Bentley.

 

This one was much more successful, but it was always gonna be a struggle trying to improve what is probably the best looking production car of all time

[somewhatfoolish]

^ That looks angry to still be alive

 

Angry about having the indignity of a car bra thrust upon it.

 

 

Also I can never understand why BL spent a fortune on the allegro when they had this lovely 1300 being built in South Africa from 71 onwards surely just giving the 1300 a new skin would have made it a winner it's not as if the 1300 would of been obsolete in the 70s as Ford had been getting away with it for years.

 

Alternatively there were a few proposed ADO16 face lifts, one of which ended up becoming the Citroen GS. There wasn't much fundamentally wrong with Alec's bouncing baby; a facelift, some re-engineering to reduce servicing costs and remove the rust traps Issigonis designed into it and it could have continued to be competitive through the 1970s even without a replacement for the A series. Compared to chod like the Viva, Avenger or Escort it was still a technological marvel.

[Lacquer Peel]

 

Indonesia special 5 door Daihatsu Fourtrak

[adw1977]

Wasn't the apache avl in Spain too?

 

There was the Authi Victoria, built in Spain, which used the same body.

 

http://www.aronline.co.uk/cars/bmc-cars/1100-1300/11001300-international-variations/austin-victoria/

[STUNO]

Coming home from the supermarket today I passed a car ! But on the rear was the word Athlete. So I circled round to see if  any car was really called an Athlete, or wether my old eyes were a bit out of focus.

They were ok and it definitely was an Athlete, A Toyota Athlete, and quite large and a bit bulging (nearly as much as me).

 

It popped up in the for sales too with several for sale: It is a variation of the Crown.

 

 

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/toyota/auction-1294676407.htm

 

 

[Belfast Gipsy]

Coming home from the supermarket today I passed a car ! But on the rear was the word Athlete. So I circled round to see if  any car was really called an Athlete, or wether my old eyes were a bit out of focus.

They were ok and it definitely was an Athlete, A Toyota Athlete, and quite large and a bit bulging (nearly as much as me).

 

It popped up in the for sales too with several for sale: It is a variation of the Crown.

 

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crown0.jpg

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/toyota/auction-1294676407.htm

Quite a few Crown Athletes about - usually 3 or 4 on e-bay at any given time. A little more styled than the "normal" Crown

[Tamworthbay]

i had no idea the Spanish R8 made it, with a facelift, till 1976...

They are such a good looking car!

[cros]

Didn't realise what fun past generations of Suzuki vans were with their minute 2 stroke engines.

I dug up this comment on one of the many clones that the vans spawned;

"Both the Damas and Labos are only available with a manual transmission. Air conditioning is optional. But the 0.8-litre engine hasn't got sufficient power to both carry cargo swiftly and deliver cold air from the aircon unit at the same time without struggling. The engine struggles and shakes (potentially leading to a stall) if you try both."

 

Then I got bored with the poxy little thing.

[bunglebus]

Hi all, I may well have been posted somewhere in the last 40+ pages but I was chatting to a mate yesterday, who casually mentioned his Matra Murena;

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matra_Murena

 

 

 

It's not often I haven't heard of a car, but this was a new one on me.

[Rod/b]

Seriously?

[bunglebus]

I spotted this while in Malta, so obviously had to trek back and find out what it was, gotta be Eastern Bloc right?

 

 

 

 

Nope, Isuzu Florian. Diesel. Never seen one before so of course found another just round the corner.

 

 

Also saw this in the Maltese car museum - no info

 

[bunglebus]

Seriously?

 

Well...yeah, I'd never heard of it. My neighbours had a Matra Rancho when I was growing up which I could never get my head around, and I knew of the Bagheera. The Murena was a new one on me, hence its inclusion here. I'm not the only one as at shows he's been asked whether it's a kit/Lotus/DeLorean etc.

[Bfg]

 

Also saw this in the Maltese car museum - no info

 

^ Lynx Eventer.   Mustamit I always did fancy one but scared off by excessively complicated, costly, and often rust infested Jaguar.  Superlative styling whichever way you look at it. (Jaguar XJS by Malcolm Sayer + Lynx coachwork / estate)

 

 

 

"If I were a rich man ..do b do b dah

 

Bfg

[barrett]

I think attributing the XJS to Sayer might be pushing things a bit, but there is no denying the pre-HE cars are lookers in a naff sort of way

[Yoss]

Just been googling Allegro Equipe after a pic on another thread. I did know of those, I was just refreshing my memory but one of the related images was this.

 

 

Is this real? It looks a bit homemade. It looks awful anyway.