Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.

[robinmasters]

I'm sure you all want to see the dashboard of the Kiira Smack, a car named after the substance that raddled the brain of its designer:

 

The Kiira's interior designer, taking a well-earned rest:

 

[Supernaut]

Have we had the Citroen Centipede?

 

 

 

Ah, I remember reading about those a while ago. Mental bits of kit. Two Chevrolet V8s in it, one of which is just to power the truck tyre testing rig mounted in the middle of it.

 

EDIT: Have another mental Citroen. The CX Tissier. Love these too.

 

[Datsuncog]

Room for another batshit Cit?

 

 

 

Apparently this was known as the Roadrunner, as opposed to the Loadrunner vans - also built by Tissier.

[barefoot]

 Like someone's been shown a fuzzy picture of what the interior of a modern car ought to look like for 10 seconds, then asked to reproduce it in plasticine.

 

 

Anyone remember the issue of Jalopy which claimed that the Austin Allegro Estate was designed by a bloke

who had only a badly crumpled picture of a Reliant Scimitar to base it on?

[barrett]

I saw one of these yesterday. Do t recall ever seeing one before, although that could just be because MODERN

[quicksilver]

Is that a septic Accent? Didn't think those were available over here but there was a LHD import knocking about at work a short while ago. It looked rather grim and made me wonder why anyone would bother importing such a pile of dross - subsidised US Forces shipping I guess. 

[barrett]

This one was rhd and had unpainted grey plastic bumpers! It looked particularly grim and was doing about 52.7mph with an annoyed looking man at the wheel

[martc]

Have we had the Citroen Centipede?

 

For some reason I have my pedant head on. Le mille pattes is a millipede in France, not a centipede. A centipede would be a 'cent pattes'.

 

Edit: Turns out the French call both millipedes and centipedes 'mille pattes'. As you were men.

Edited December 14, 2017 by martc

[bunglebus]

I saw a Ssangyong today that I'd not seen before - I knew the old Musso but it was one like this with a covered load bed;

 

[Ghosty]

We did get those weird hatchback Accents over here, they just didn’t sell well (did they ever?). I was equally baffled the first time I saw one.

[LessThanEqual]

Seen a few of those Accents myself, they look like an EJ Civic knock off.

[flat4alfa]

From

http://autoshite.com/topic/6939-the-wolseley-six/?p=1378644

 

 

Asimo, on 17 Dec 2017 - 10:47 PM, said:

http://www.curbsidec...ul/#more-260910

 

Interesting to read the Chevrolet Citation being compared as the 'American Landcrab'

 

 

 

I knew about them and still have an unmade Monogram kit in the loft (I've grown up now), had forgotten all about them until that post

 

highlights:

Citation was the best-selling car in the United States in 1980

The front end was slotted into the Pontiac Fiero amidships.

in the 81 tests the x-11 on a skidpad pulled higher number than a vette

 

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2010/12/curbside-classic-1980-chevrolet-citation-gms-deadliest-sin-ever/

[AlabamaShrimp]

So there's an Escort in China? Well a booted Focus by another name

 

[Ghosty]

It isn’t there any more, but the Chevy Citation page used to have one of the Wikipedia advisory panels at the top: ‘needs additional citations’.

[Claphamrangie]

I had no idea that they had ever done an Alfasud Giardinetta 5 door

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Don't think they did before photoshop was invented

[bunglebus]

Saw one of these 4 door Bentleys today

 

[R&A Autos]

Peugeot J5 Hymermobil camper

[adw1977]

Saw one of these 4 door Bentleys today

 

 

Visibility looks awful, looking out of it must be like peering through a letterbox!

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Saw one of these 4 door Bentleys today

 

There's a good reason for not knowing these exist- they don't yet!

Was it a prototype testing or something? That rendering looks like an A7 with a Bentley grille, I'm hoping the real thing is a bit more imposing when it arrives.

[MorrisItalSLX]

The Rover 800

 

 

 

IN AUSTRALIA!?!?

 

Turns out they were sold here between 1987 and 1991!

I have never seen one here ever, not even for sale.

 

I want one. I really do.

 

EDIT: found this website with some useful information about Aussie market Rovers.

https://rover800australia.com/

[bunglebus]

There's a good reason for not knowing these exist- they don't yet!

Was it a prototype testing or something? That rendering looks like an A7 with a Bentley grille, I'm hoping the real thing is a bit more imposing when it arrives.

 

No idea.It was driving through Chelmsford, probably still on my dashcam. Maybe the pic's not right - seems to be a Flying Spur according to Bentley's website.

[Yoss]

Honda Logo? Never heard of it. Though looking at this remarkably bland image they could be everywhere and I've just noticed.

[Bfg]

Honda logo? Never heard of it. Though looking at this remarkably bland image they could be everywhere and I've just noticed.

 

 

I love it.. only here on Autoshite would a man who owns two Škoda get away with sayin that    

[Timewaster]

If you want to see Logos, check outside the post office on pension day.

[Yoss]

I love it.. only here on Autoshite would a man who owns two Škoda get away with sayin that    

Ha ha, the irony of that was completely lost on me when I typed it. I'm so comfortable with my Felicia now that I forget it is practically invisible to the general public. Would explain the amount of car park dings it has attracted over the years.

[SierraMikeHotel]

A colleague of mine had a Logo.  I'd never heard of them either so Googled it, and of course you can't - you just get the Honda (lower-case l)ogo - a big letter H.

The Post Office comment is entirely accurate, he'd liberated it from his elderly father when he decided to give up driving.

[Ghosty]

I occasionally spot an imported five door Logo around Manchester:

 

[Datsuncog]

In fairness, the Logo went entirely under my radar too. I only realised they existed about two years ago when Mrs DC snapped a particularly battered example for my delectation.

 

 

 

I've seen a few around since (and one only a week or so ago), but they were entirely invisible to me at the time they were new - I never noticed any ads for them, any writeups in Auto Express, or any customers coming in needing bits for one.

 

Connoisseur-grade shite in the making, surely...

[cros]

That Logo is a ghost of a car, it's just about invisible. It took 17 years for me to notice my first one and even then I thought I'd imagined it until it cropped up here the other day. If there's anything else I've missed I'd be grateful if someone would get it posted. I've had the Wind already.