Why didn't they make.....?

[scdan4]

 

 

my eyes!

[mercrocker]

Ye gods.....Should start a new thread "Why did they make..."

[Aston Martin]

Mgtf coupe would've been an interesting thing.

 

 

 

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I've read on one of the mg forums that some dealer down south actually has the "working" prototype minus its engine on the strict provision that no attempt is made to put it on the road.

 

Why? That would have been agreed upon before the Chinese merger?

[Timewaster]

Mgtf coupe would've been an interesting thing.

 

 

 

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I've read on one of the mg forums that some dealer down south actually has the "working" prototype minus its engine on the strict provision that no attempt is made to put it on the road.

Probably because is probably made of screwed up newspaper and wob and it's curtains for nuns and kittens the first time you hit a speed bump.

[bub2006]

Vauxhall Corsa GSi came with lotus designed 1.6 capable of 130bhp. A Mantzel inlet opens it to 150bhp.

Would've been nice to have a Corsa 2.0 with an XE but it's understandable to not take away sales from the similar powered car, in this case the Astra GSi. Also things like target markets and insurance costs. No point in producing if you can't get the target group with insurance.

Apparently that's the same engine that's in my vectra. X16xe lump with stupid throttle body right down back of engine and the inlet running up and over.

[D Spares & Tyres]

Ford Sierra 1.9 XUD turbo diesel

 

They should have fitted this instead of that 2.3 lump or the later 1.8 turbo which wasn`t much fun either

 

But I suppose PSA wouldn`t let them

[320touring]

Two door BMW E30 touring.

was available as a coachbuilt special on chrome bumper cars-used a mk1 golf tailgate

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[martybabes]

Renault Twingo in RHD - a surefire winnah but a missed opportunity.

[New POD]

An Mx5 Coupe with Rotary Engine, and no rust.

 

(You can't have Relibility and No rust, hence why we have to junk the half decent 16V when we build the body to last)

[twosmoke300]

I serviced a rhd twingo last week I think

[They_all_do_that_sir]

I would have liked a vtec r8 rover 200, 105bhp was nippy enough, 160 would have made it shift rightly

[martybabes]

I serviced a rhd twingo last week I think

 

You think you serviced it; or

you think it was RHD; or

you think it was a Twingo; or

you think it was last week?

 

               

[Alan_Green]

Old shape Twingos were LHD only. Post 2006 Twingos were RHD too. This is the old shape:

[cyruspower]

Porsche 944/928 Estate beyond the Artz Kombi conversions

[twosmoke300]

You think you serviced it; or

you think it was RHD; or

you think it was a Twingo; or

you think it was last week?

 

With the amount of cars that have been on the ramps in the last fortnight I'm lucky I remembered it at all .

It was a later twingo too

[Formula Autos]

VW milked the Seat Ibiza/Cordoba range in the '90s, by rebadging some as Polo saloons and estates. I always wondered why there was never a VW badged version of the Cordoba coupe though. They could have even badged it the Derby.

 

GTi* versions already existed in Seat form too, so a performance version could have been sold, at a premium over the hatchback.

 

All the necessary bits existed - the VW grilles and lights and what-not. I guess the market for a 2dr Polo had gone by that point.

 

* or whatever they called them at the time - Cupra/FR/Bocanegra/Chavanator or some such, no doubt.