Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.

[treehugger]

Suzuki what? And whats a Grandland? Off to google................

My neighbours, he has an Insignia, she has a Qashcow............contain your jealousy!

[SRi05]

I just walked past an 04 plate jag with cloth seats and a manual gearbox, didn't know they came with either! Proper povvo spec

[martc]

I think we have had the Grandland before.

 

Shows just how forgettable they are.

 

Yes we've had it before and I made a wisecrack along the lines of 'in 10 years time it'll be called the Poundland'.

 

As it has made a re-appearance may I be permitted to make the following wisecrack?

 

Grandland?

 

'In 10 years time it'll be called the Poundland'.

[Bucketeer]

I've just been reading about a W126 500SEL that a Japanese artist bought and created an estate out of.

 

 

More pics and info here -

http://rus.live/2019/01/14155/?fbclid=IwAR3_Bjs_CWSSXy1l04g4HHqFhQh4ub4PU929A0bUuFWePPraZVUkQSgK8fM

[MorrisItalSLX]

Did they take their design insparation from the Toyota Tercel?

 

[Junkman]

There were more elegant answers to a question nobody asked.

 

 

 

Also hatchback.

 

 

It was flogged on eBay a few years back, has deteriorated on someone's driveway ever since and is now in dreadful condition.

[Junkman]

Here is an article about the blue Japanese conversion, which is meanwhile in Berlin: https://www.motor-talk.de/news/die-wahrscheinlich-schraegste-s-klasse-der-welt-t6316251.html

[myglaren]

 

I had no idea that these existed until I saw this photo in the Jury Service thread.

 

Girlfriend's dad had a Taunus though.  He really wanted a Mustang but could never have got away with it.

Ironically he was the town's Ford dealer until he sold the business to his brother.

[bunglebus]

20190116_085800 by RS, on Flickr

 

No idea. It was in Paris

[bunglebus]

Kanguru disabled car

 

 

Not seen a Kia Sorento Titan before;

 

[Bfg]

[STUNO]

An American oddity, why do things like this get imported to this country?

The epitome of US styling, the 1990  Chevrolet Corsica.

Fortunately at $800.00 asking the owner should lose money 

 

 

 

https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/chevrolet/auction-1916159845.htm?rsqid=470a8b7df30a43498de03e87a5f8a2dd

 

 

[Jazoli]

They normally arrive via American military service people who bring them to their base I've found, I used to see a lot of old USA stuff around air bases back in the 90's.

[STUNO]

American bases are NOT PERMITTED in this country, they got told to f off years ago . They got upset for a while.

That Chev will have been imported by someone who fell in love with the styling. His wife has probably withdrawn services until it has gone from the driveway.   

[Snipes]

Lakenheath is a American base isn't it?

[martc]

American bases are NOT PERMITTED in this country, they got told to f off years ago . They got upset for a while.

That Chev will have been imported by someone who fell in love with the styling. His wife has probably withdrawn services until it has gone from the driveway.   

 

 

Lakenheath is a American base isn't it?

 

I understand that technically the USA dosen't have any bases of it's own in the UK anymore - they're all became RAF properties but almost exclusively used by the USA. RAF Lakenheath is the only one from which the USAF still flies, but, for example, the massive spying operation at Menwith Hill (RAF Menwith Hill) is still going strong. There is no attempt at keeping the secret...

 

[Aston Martin]

Alot of cool shit comes via Mildenhall I believe.

[Aston Martin]

I saw a Golf R convertible and I thought, there's no fucking way that's real.... It is.

 

It was supposed to be £38k, but they lopped £5k off after launch.

[Supernaut]

Hyundai Xcient.

 

[cros]

 

VPG MV1 DX Wheel Chair Accessible Van/Taxi

 

Horrific looking thing, mercifully out of production now, I think.

[vulgalour]

Courtesy of Brownnova's excellent thread here: http://autoshite.com/topic/20203-good-god-it%E2%80%99s-ugly-another-periodically-updated-spotting-thread-of-interesting-cars-from-north-wales/page-5?do=findComment&comment=1731701 is the now dead Stevens electric van/car.

 

 

They're kind of adorable, in a three-legged dog sort of a way.  Certainly not a car that you can be angry at, I mean look at its little face!

[vulgalour]

Also, entirely by accident, I just discovered that in Barcelona there were electric trolley vans used to service the trolley bus lines and trolley busses themselves until the 1990s.  Built on British made Tilling-Stevens chassis, it would seem that these were very rare vehicles with a long service life.  I could barely find any more than the above out about them, and the images I could find were limited to one website: https://dewi.ca/trains/barcelon/btrolley.html

 

[Bfg]

Courtesy of Brownnova's excellent thread here: http://autoshite.com/topic/20203-good-god-it%E2%80%99s-ugly-another-periodically-updated-spotting-thread-of-interesting-cars-from-north-wales/page-5?do=findComment&comment=1731701 is the now dead Stevens electric van/car.

 

 

They're kind of adorable, in a three-legged dog sort of a way.  Certainly not a car that you can be angry at, I mean look at its little face!

 

..more behind the concept < here >

 

Also, entirely by accident, I just discovered that in Barcelona there were electric trolley vans used to service the trolley bus lines and trolley busses themselves until the 1990s.  Built on British made Tilling-Stevens chassis, it would seem that these were very rare vehicles with a long service life.  I could barely find any more than the above out about them, and the images I could find were limited to one website: https://dewi.ca/trains/barcelon/btrolley.html

 

 

Was that the same Stevens ?

[cort1977]

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VPG MV1 DX Wheel Chair Accessible Van/Taxi

 

Horrific looking thing, mercifully out of production now, I think.

 

A friend's step dad has one for his wheelchair.  Very utilitarian but he loves it as it's designed for wheelchairs from the ground up.  They're thinking of getting rid as 'it's getting a bit old'.  Five years and 70000 miles is a worry apparently. 

[Inspector Morose]

 

Was that the same Stevens ?

No. Tilling-Stevens was taken over by the Rootes group in 1953 and the Stevens electric platform was designed by Tony Stevens, who productionised the Hillman Avenger.

 

Sad fact #192. The Commer “knocker” opposed piston, two stoke Diesel engine was a Tilling-Stevens designed engine that was scheduled for production by them in 1954. TS3 stood for Tilling Stevens 3 cylinder. A four cylinder was also prototyped but never made production. About four or five of the prototype four cylinder TS4s exist around the world.

[SierraMikeHotel]

I saw a Toyota Sera the other day, I don't think I ever knew about them. Really liked the looks of it.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Sera

[Bfg]

No. Tilling-Stevens was taken over by the Rootes group in 1953 and the Stevens electric platform was designed by Tony Stevens, who productionised the Hillman Avenger.

 

Sad fact #192. The Commer “knocker” opposed piston, two stoke Diesel engine was a Tilling-Stevens designed engine that was scheduled for production by them in 1954. TS3 stood for Tilling Stevens 3 cylinder. A four cylinder was also prototyped but never made production. About four or five of the prototype four cylinder TS4s exist around the world.

 

As it happens, Tony Stevens "established himself at the Rootes Group. As chief engineer, chief designer and - ultimately - head of product planning, he was responsible for a number of popular cars, including the Hillman Hunter and Sunbeam Rapier."  Quoted from The Telegraph < here >  I knew he designed engines and was a head of product planning for Rootes, but I don't know about his early career.

[JeeExEll]

 

The PK, manufactured by Pars Khodro in Iran right up until 2005. A 1980s Renner 5 body on a Kia Pride floorpan, etc.

Before 2000 the Renner 5 was known as the Sepand.

 

Nice parking, should be ok to leave it there.

[JeeExEll]

But that's the old version.

Since 2005 they've been making more updated ones, called the New PK.

 

 

 

Edit, production of these stopped in 2013. Not bad for the little 1972 Renner 5.

 

Look at him, you can see the wheels turning in his brain - "Is that kerb too high to park on top of or isn't it?".

[Amishtat]

There were more elegant answers to a question nobody asked.

 

 

 

Also hatchback.

 

 

It was flogged on eBay a few years back, has deteriorated on someone's driveway ever since and is now in dreadful condition.

Pretty sure the hatchback took a trip round the oval a year or two ago, I remember seeing a picture of it and wondering what its story was.