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November 6, 2015

^^^^ That looks great. Doesn't look like it has a lower age limit to ownership.

3,526 · November 6, 2015

Let's not forget that these are prototypes. There is a long way of development ahead until they'd be ready for production.
I was still at BMW when they started to develop the e30 Touring, so it must have been 1985. The idea was born because BMW employee Max ReisbÃƒÂ¶ck had modified his saloon (this is NOT an urban legend!) and his car served as the first prototype.

It still took them until 1991 to develop it for production.

E30 touring was available after the 1988 MY facelift. The E30 touring (and convertible) continued in production in 1991, with the introduction of the E36 because the E36 versions weren't available. The very last E30s were 316i tourings in 1993.

108,849 · November 6, 2015

E30 touring was available after the 1988 MY facelift.

So it still took them almost four years to get it from prototype stage to production - on an existing platform.

Which is pretty much industry standard.

10,509 · November 6, 2015

Not all Vauxhalls are shit. I love the looks of this FD Victor coupe and it's a real shame it got canned. I'll have mine on Rostyles with a small-block Chevy please.

The Crayford Opel Commodore is hot too.

20,881 · November 6, 2015

Rovers cheap tax bracket 100

Citroen Blob

Bingo Soft top

Mini Picasso

1,835 · November 6, 2015

This is really interesting.

Lots of unusual stuff that would have made quite a presence on the roads

1,835 · November 6, 2015

Rovers cheap tax bracket 100

WTF??

14,392 · November 6, 2015

WTF??

project drive gone a step too far?

10,667 · November 6, 2015

How about a Wankel engined Citroen?

10,667 · November 6, 2015

I'd really like a Citroen Eole

November 6, 2015

How about a Wankel engined Citroen?

Looking at that picture made me make a funny noise. Also what's the deal with the rover 100? That needs killing with fire.

4,737 · November 6, 2015

Is that Metro done by the same guy who vertically sectioned one into a single-seater and tried to get it into production about a decade ago?

23,003 · November 6, 2015

That Metro is one of those skid-simulator things, I put one in the eBay thread a few weeks ago. The Citroen M35 Wankel Ami was at least made (in tiny numbers), there was a chap in Netherlands with several for sale recently - at magazine prices sadly.

20,881 · November 6, 2015

BX shooting break

ZX Ragtop

20,881 · November 6, 2015

AX Breadvan edition

1.3k · November 6, 2015

I know I'm going to be shot down, but I quite like the Ford Probe soft top! Sorry no piccies but the iwontpad will not allow me to cut and paste!

20,881 · November 6, 2015

BX saloon - all the fun of a 405 with HP suspension, brakes & steering....

16,819 · November 6, 2015

Talking about

BX saloon - all the fun of a 405 with HP suspension, brakes & steering....

Na - give me the graceful good looks of a 405 anyday over the parts-bin BX, let alone that booted thing above! Looks like a Samara having a bad day!

One prototype which caught my eye at CitroÃƒÂ«n's Conservatoire was the Cocinelle. The company didn't really expect the 2cv to do so well in big cities, being so much a rural paysan machine (no security against thieves, long gearing, odd looks and in the design office's mind a rather crude and heavy steel body) so came up with something for the 50s equivalent of the yummy mummy. Alloy panels were built around an alloy chassis frame, so only 382kg and with simplified gas over oil suspension, one sphere for each axle iirc. The alloy flat twin drove the front wheels. 12hp took it to 70mph.

22,146 · November 6, 2015

Hmm

16,819 · November 6, 2015

Never seen a C6 side-on - bloody awful, like something a 10 year old would draw. How did the French lose their way so spectacularly?

1,686 · November 7, 2015

On second thoughts, what am I looking at here?

Is this a VDP Allegro sedan or a VDP version of a Marina?

4,728 · November 7, 2015

for the full build & reason why the saxon (mk1 c ortina 2 seater) panels look like that go to www.buysellcortina.co.uk & go to members cars section & look for project saxon & all will be explained.

52,764 · November 7, 2015

VDP nose on a Marina and it's a very good styling idea too, the proportions are much better suited for that front end than the Allegro ever was. Quite like the idea of a luxury three box saloon with rear wheel drive like that, especially if it were also equipped with MG F style Hydragas to get some decent handling and even some comfort while you're at it.

One to add to the Lottery Win list that.