Cars that you forgot existed!

[fatharris]

This one is a slight tangent on cars that you never knew existed, these are cars you were aware existed, but forgot all about them.

 

The trigger for this was spotting:

 

 

This, a Fiat Idea, resplendent in pogweasel pink. Completely forgot they were a thing.

 

Any more motors that escaped your memory?

[Guest Hooli]

There are, but I can't remember them.

[fatharris]

Well, that's that then, a succinct thread!

[Liggle]

I forgot all about Yugo's ever existing in the UK until a thread on here the other day!

[tooSavvy]

When I'm older and more doddery than now, likely I will park up MrSavv at TESCO and get the bus home....

 

like..... forgot

 

 

TS

[MarvinsMom]

a lancia Chrysler upsilon, instantly forgetable, until this evening when i passed one near thirsk on the A19!

 

goes to show, some people will buy anything.....

 

[davidfowler2000]

There's a Fiat Idea lives round here somewhere. I may have exclaimed at it's presense when I last saw it though.

[Junkman]

This one is a slight tangent on cars that you never knew existed, these are cars you were aware existed, but forgot all about them.

 

The trigger for this was spotting:

 

 

This, a Fiat Idea, resplendent in pogweasel pink. Completely forgot they were a thing.

 

Any more motors that escaped your memory?

 

I never knew these existed.

[2MB]

I passed my driving test in a Fiat Idea but was still close to forgetting they existed. See also Fiat Marea

[17-Coffees]

a lancia Chrysler upsilon, instantly forgetable

 

The entire Lancia Chrysler range from 2010+ was. The Delta was just there and I dont think anyone other than the odd mini-cab driver actually drove the second gen-300C! 

 

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The Suzuki Kizashi...

3-series sized Suzuki saloon, only came with a 2.4 4-pot petrol with a CVT box...and cost £22,000! 140hp and AWD though. 

Apparently they managed to flog 335 of them in 2 years. (According to 'HML') 

 

Saw one the other week and honestly forgot they existed. Thinking that it was the equally as rare SX4 saloon! 

I totally would own one as well...

[tooSavvy]

a lancia Chrysler upsilon, instantly forgetable, until this evening when i passed one near thirsk on the A19!

 

goes to show, some people will buy anything.....

 

Some worries that Chrysler were to revive 'IMP' as model name..

 

Oohh! Close.....

 

 

TS

[Aston Martin]

Seat Exeo

[Lacquer Peel]

I wouldn't buy an Ypsilon myself but it's good that people still buy unusual cars, the roads would be pretty boring if everyone bought on the basis of 4+ star reviews in Autocar.

[brownnova]

I saw one of these, a Hyundai Pony X2 the other day, I'd forgotten they existed!!

 

 

 

[rantingYoof]

Hyundai S-Coupe.

 

Only when I saw Top Gear's Cars For A 17yr Old challenge did I remember that they happened.

 

Available with a turbo, free-spokes and a tennis court, apparently.

 

[conkerman]

Seat Exeo

I has an Exeo. Base model madness. Had for 6 years. A remarkably decent car.

 

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[Split_Pin]

For Christmas 95 my folks bought me A to Z of cars of the 1970s and there were about 40 or so cars that I had forgotten about which I then remembered seeing a decade or so earlier. That was a great present!

[fred]

Loads of them, they just slowly disappear without you noticing , and when you see a pic or someone mentions one, the memories come flooding back. Not Rare ones but once was everyday ones, Wartburg Silver Knight , a standard in my childhood. DAF , Lada's (which had the heaviest steering in dah world) etc.....

[Ghosty]

Suzuki SX4 with Fiat badges.

 

I always seem to forget about the Toyota Lite Ace too.

[quicksilver]

Kia Mentor. I'd forgotten all about them until I saw one recently. "What's that? *looks at badges* Kia...Mentor?" Clunk, whirr, clunk goes the ol' brain. "Oh yeah, now I remember them".

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Sao Penza. There used to be one around here, but it didn't seem to have any Penza friends. I know there have been a few threads on here mentioning them over the years, but can't remember the final verdict - are there any left in the wild?

 

 

[MarvinsMom]

vauxhall signum,

like a lwb vectra only the same size, but different.

 

and they replaced the most excellent omega with this in the name of progress. what were they thinking/smoking/drinking....

[MarvinsMom]

another vauxhall, this one the sinatra?

when they needed a mini van thing they imported this heap from america for not long, 18 months maybe, cos it was afterall just crap....

[Ghosty]

The entire Lancia Chrysler range from 2010+ was. The Delta was just there and I dont think anyone other than the odd mini-cab driver actually drove the second gen-300C! 

 

-

 

The Suzuki Kizashi...

3-series sized Suzuki saloon, only came with a 2.4 4-pot petrol with a CVT box...and cost £22,000! 140hp and AWD though. 

Apparently they managed to flog 335 of them in 2 years. (According to 'HML') 

 

Saw one the other week and honestly forgot they existed. Thinking that it was the equally as rare SX4 saloon! 

I totally would own one as well...

 

I spotted one today!

[trigger]

I saw a white one outside mine a few months back, bloody good looking cars I think.

[Rocket88]

Anyone remember Lonsdale?

[quicksilver]

Thought of another one I'd forgotten. Was looking at a Fiat Regata on Flickr and thinking it was a late one but couldn't remember what replaced it. Then it came to me: the Tempra. Haven't seen one of those for years so what happened to them?

[MarvinsMom]

rust?

 

dodgy italian electrics,

 

and rust?

[Dick Cheeseburger]

The original, pre- Kia Pride Mazda 121 is a rare little beast now, as well.

[PiperCub]

There used to be a Vox Sintra where I used to live, the only one I ever knowingly saw. Think it had a 3-litre motor (?).

 

Also the Mazda 121 - the ugly Fiesta shape one, the same thing except for the badges.