Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.

[Timewaster]

Thou shalt steer clear of chod that's sold with different names in different markets, for it isn't shite but shit.

(1 Junkman 5:7)

A Vauxhall by any other name is still shit.

(1 Timewaster 6:4)

[xkjagnz]

Saw this today so I know it exists but I still don't know what it is. A quick Google suggests it's a Toyota of some sort but I'm none the wiser. Some sort of JDM?

 

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The WiLL VS loads of these in NZ (this is the good looking WiLL - looks a bit like Darth Vaders Helmet (ooer) or so I'm told)

The Ginger step child of the family is this

The WiLL VI

[xkjagnz]

Lordy.

Pass the eye bleach!!!!!!!!!!!

[Snipes]

Looks like one of those Yankee Grumman things with a Swedish facelift?

[chaseracer]

A Vauxhall by any other name is still shit.

(1 Timewaster 6:4)

 

Nah m8, that's a line from Rammel and Jalopy by Bill Halfshaft.

[Paul Dupart]

Italian Anglebox....

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FORD-ANGLIA-TORINO-1966-Italian-build-Anglia-Rare-car-NO-ROT-Low-miles-/232408072596?hash=item361c99c194:g:JM4AAOSwTVtZZ4Py

[17-Coffees]

Poverty spec Rover 600's...

Saw this posted to a facebook page the other day, and I want it! 

 

Base spec for the win and all...

 

 

[Timewaster]

I would love to think that 600 has a giant clock in place of the rev counter, or even better a base allegro style cardboard target.

[Snipes]

Or a simple plan drawing of a car with "rover" written over"Honda"in biro.

[11001010]

[Felly Magic]

Fiat's baby Rancho? That Fiat 127 estate in the ebay thread was a new one on me too. WOULD to both

[Bucketeer]

Mainland Europe only Nissan Trade.

 

[Snipes]

I remember seeing a lot of Japanese mini-lorries when I was in holiday in Spain.

[Bfg]

.

I was wondering ..

 

How come consumers in the UK, or perhaps vehicle marketing, don't go for crew cabs light trucks in a big way.?  They are very common indeed in Germany, Holland, and I'm sure other European & Asian countries, and are even common in the US as four door version of their pick up truck.  But here in the UK - they're pretty unusual.  Are UK work practices so different that the extra crew are not needed ?  or perhaps it is an insurance thing ?

[quicksilver]

Fiat 128 estate. This one is an import but the owner says they were sold new here.

 

 

[Timewaster]

.

I was wondering ..

 

How come consumers in the UK, or perhaps vehicle marketing, don't go for crew cabs light trucks in a big way.? They are very common indeed in Germany, Holland, and I'm sure other European & Asian countries, and are even common in the US as four door version of their pick up truck. But here in the UK - they're pretty unusual. Are UK work practices so different that the extra crew are not needed ? or perhaps it is an insurance thing ?

They are unusual as work vehicles but quite common as a low tax option for company cars.

Must be at least 1 tonne payload to qualify which is probably why we don't get the cool east European ones like the Dacia

[adw1977]

Fiat 128 estate. This one is an import but the owner says they were sold new here.

 

 

They certainly did.  September 1975 UK brochure:

 

[John F]

I didn't know that Yamaha had ever made a car:

 

 

 

 

 

[John F]

Nope, I didn't know about that either.

[Asimo]

Passed by one of these on the M50 'tother day. Guess this is what JLR has been up to instead of designing a new Landrover.

 

 

New use for an old (pretend) name.

 

**Post also suitable for the butt-ugly thread over on modernshite.

[Sigmund Fraud]

Mainland Europe only Nissan Trade.

 

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The badge says Nissan but it's really an Ebro - a most exciting find !

[Ghosty]

Aye Velar is a new thing. Mums cousin has been doing a bit of work for JLR and I've been sent a couple of pics of them, from some distance though. Seems to be smaller than an RR but bigger than a Freelander or something (suspect it could be related to the F-Pace?)

[inconsistant]

 

 

 

 

This is, apparently, a Lister Le Mans. Never heard of them before last weekend. 7 litres, twin supercharged, 600bhp. If you squint there's an XJS lurking in there somewhere.

 

I'm now having man dreams about a Lister Lynx Le Mans Eventer. Nurse!

[Dick Cheeseburger]

^ I'm a little perturbed by the onlooker of the Lister. My mate's best man is six foot, built like a brick in a shit house, and works in a timber yard. I found out recently that his best man is now called Letitia, wears heels, and poses provocatively on Instamagram.

Sorry for rambling.

[inconsistant]

That's just a pink t shirt and a look of wondrous bemusement.

[John F]

It just looks like an XJ-S in a bad bodykit to me.

[nigel bickle]

Back in the early 90's my oppo at work bought a Lister XJS new. To commute around Croydon.... Useless.

 

I got around much quicker in a Daytona yellow Fiat 500, boot sign written "Yabba dab a do". And had more fun.

 

Mind, it was awesome..

[Bfg]

It just looks like an XJ-S in a bad bodykit to me.

I can only but wholeheartedly agree with the above statement..

 

The XJS., whether you happen to like its style, is at least elegant ..but this combines the very worst styling tips from rubber bumper compliance, American clip-on wheel rims, the plastic abortions of massively untalented kit-car builders, Essex boy's cardboard templated wheel arches, and the Daimler Dart's front edge of the bonnet. 

 

 But that's just my opinion   

 

Nevertheless, def the worse Lister I've ever seen - I'd rather be seen in a 1970's Skoda or an Citroen Ami-super, at least then I'd have austerity as an excuse for displaying such abominable taste..

 

FCF 3 must stand for something appropriate ?

 

 

^ Deleted..

 

My father used to say "If you have nothing positive to say ..then don't speak"  

 

..and I have absolutely nothing positive to say about that car's styling*.

[Matt]

Saw a Tata Safari for the first time last week. I had no idea what it was until I saw it again and was able to note the plate.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/04-Tata-Safari-4x4-Only-28k-miles-from-new-Complete-car-for-spares-or-repairs-/332054613071?hash=item4d4fff4c4f:g:U9MAAOSw6DtYRqkL

[doug]

An Isuzu 117. A mighty fine looking veehikle.