TheClutchBasketPodcast Posted January 29, 2019 Author Share Posted January 29, 2019 Also, that just reminded me that there must be very few Polo Harlequins left... That's a sad thought LightBulbFun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheClutchBasketPodcast Posted January 29, 2019 Author Share Posted January 29, 2019 It's actually Polo Harlekin. I have been getting in wrong for 20 years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Also, that just reminded me that there must be very few Polo Harlequins left... That's a sad thoughtMk.3 Golf TDi Ecomatic? Kringle, Lacquer Peel and Scruffy Bodger 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheClutchBasketPodcast Posted January 29, 2019 Author Share Posted January 29, 2019 Mk.3 Golf TDi Ecomatic? This is fascinating. I had not idea. http://www.polodriver.com/volkswagen/driving-the-future-in-1994-the-volkswagen-golf-ecomatic/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProgRocker Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 (edited) Fiat Tempra. I once owned a shite 1.4 poverty spec with 'keep fit' steering and windows. Which I'd wager was probably the rarest spec. Edited January 29, 2019 by ProgRocker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheClutchBasketPodcast Posted January 29, 2019 Author Share Posted January 29, 2019 and one for sale! https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1073792 Tadhg Tiogar and ProgRocker 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
25v6turbo Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Safrane V6 RXE,only 1 on the road in the U.K(The 2nd one is a "fake")and more than one time Renaults most expensive car for sale in the U.K.Poor sales,700 in U.K,terrible reliability issues which controlled suspension and autoboxes issues and parts being very difficult to find in the U.K made it quick weigh in option after only a few years old.I find some parts so hard to find I have to get them from France or Germany if I,am lucky,certain items like trim bits,mouldings etc are near impossible to find.Buy one if you can find one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tul66 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Alfa 75?Alfa 90?There are a few 75's kicking about. Here's mine in for an Mot last year. How about a Lancia HPE VX, the one with the supercharger? Apparently only 186 imported, god knows how many left. Mrs6C and Tadhg Tiogar 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChinaTom Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 The Trevi must be single figures (probably only double when current!)There were a few Fords that had odd specs that few bothered with. Wasn’t there a Sierra 2.0is when the GLSi was very close - early GLSi has very low spec unlike later models.Renault 18LS spec. TS or GTL a bit too far one way, settle on the LS then.Renault 11 TSE unusual too. All that luxury and a tiny engine. Don’t recall seeing many around in their day.I don’t think you’ll beat the Dacia Denem for unicorn status providing I have understood the term correctly. Someone somewhere must have seen all the Lada’s knocking around and thought a Renner 12 is going to be a no brained compared to them if they are in the same price range. 750 Mauritanians can’t all be wrong can they? We’ll sell miwions Wodney! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Alfa 90? Saved one of those about 6 years back and sold it on to a collector of italobargeshite. It's still alive, but needs plenty and is stored away. I also sold the same fella my Alfa 6 around the same time. This remains a proper runner and the sole Badermatic Alfa 6 left on this land Ignore the plate, I raped that off. It's a late-plate-madness 1985 on a C. Brodders, Lacquer Peel, Mrs6C and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 The Trevi must be single figures (probably only double when current!) This was my Trevi. Sold on about 8 years back, but I know where it lives (with a Gamma, no less) and it has visited the NEC more than once. It was clambered over by three previous owners - including myself - at the Festival of Unexceptionals last year Not only that, it's also the sole Badermatic Trevi left on this land Brodders, Mrs6C and Lacquer Peel 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 How about a Lancia HPE VX, the one with the supercharger? Apparently only 186 imported, god knows how many left. 14 HPE VX 26 Coupe VX (According to the nice lass at the DVLA) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSdriver Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 The 'last' Citroen AX Splash is on ebay at the mo. For about the same price they were when new. Most unusually low depreciation for a French car inconsistant 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 While I'm doing a list of vanity posts, how about the Lancia Beta Berlina Series III Had two of those, kept for some years and sold-on around 2011. The blue one is very much alive and on the club scene The silver one lives on at Bickle Towers ProgRocker, Skizzer, Dead_E23 and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Saved one of those about 6 years back and sold it on to a collector of italobargeshite. It's still alive, but needs plenty and is stored away..... Ignore the plate, I raped that off. It's a late-plate-madness 1985 on a C. Does it still have that Alfa briefcase / luggage set in it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 At the time of the Sierra 2.0iS (if I remember right) they only offered it for a really short period of time maybe 85-86. Then they brought out the Sierra 4x4 GLS in the Mk2. Loads of the 2.0iS will have been bummed for the 2.0 pinto injection to drop in a Cortina. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r.welfare Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Mk1 GLS got to be rare too? Ref. the Mitsubishi Sigma estate, they can’t be that rare as Shite Knight and I have both owned one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tul66 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 14 HPE VX 26 Coupe VX (According to the nice lass at the DVLA)Only 14? Might just hang onto mine then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryoldcortina Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Mr B0LL0X has one.I was going to say that! I collected it from the eBay seller and you and bol came over with a lpg jeep and trailer for it. Pete-M 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dead_E23 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 I've never seen a Rayton-Fissore Magnum in the metal, but didn't wuvvum have one a few years ago? Can't be many of those about. Another one that is becoming a rare sight: the Subaru SVX. Also, I recently saw a Sierra estate on the M25 and it struck me I hadn't seen one for ages! When did they all disappear? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk2_craig Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Hacker Maroc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlabamaShrimp Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 What about something like my Fiesta? Yeah there's loads left due to the curse of the blue oval but how many haven't been messed to death or hiding an engine swap from the doovla? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve79 Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 In order Alfa 6Datsun VioletDatsun 180bDaihatsu CharmantHyundai Sonata 2.4 mk2Hyundai Lantra mk1Kia Mentor mk1Mitsubishi CelesteMitsubishi Galant Sapparo 2.4Mitsubishi Sigma/Diamante 3.0 4wsRover's metro,maestro,montego advantageVenturi 400gtVolvo 760gle prv shiteVW DerbyVW Santana GX5 Brodders, Tenmil Socket and ProgRocker 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisItalSLX Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 The Holden Camira should be a good shout, basically the Australianised MKII Vauxhall Cavalier. Most looked like this by the new millennium: Unpopular when new and even less popular on the second hand market. Thousands of 80's Commodores live on but most Camiras have been bean-tinned, there must be very, very few left on the road today. Mrs6C 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 What about something like my Fiesta? Yeah there's loads left due to the curse of the blue oval but how many haven't been messed to death or hiding an engine swap from the doovla?No you are right, there’s hardly any old 950 low comp Pops about or any of the low spec based special editions, Firefly, Sandpiper etc. My mates dad used to have a Mk1 with the single round lamps on it, 950 I think it was, in sunburst red. Had that distinctive noise to it and that slightly oily smell old Fords had. AlabamaShrimp 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amishtat Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 VW Santana, I'd forgotten all about those until seeing that picture.. Also Datsun 180B,my dad had a red estate about 1989 (MSC765P) and to this day I've not seen another. I do have a mate with a Polski-Fiat, and once again I can't remember seeing another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheClutchBasketPodcast Posted January 31, 2019 Author Share Posted January 31, 2019 Aren't the Polski Fiat's becoming popular in the UK now that people can't afford the Italian ones any more? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnthonyG Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 Lancia Gamma - running the power steering off the timing belt Lancia Beta Berlina - a rust trap in the rear (?) subframe Lotus Elite series 1 - ungalvanised chassis that lasted about 3 years NSU Ro80 - rotor tip mounts made from the same stuff as the actual tips so they wore each other out Talbot Tagora - badge Ford Sierra mk1 - styling Jaguar XK8 - plastic timing belt tensioners Aston Martin DB7 - Jaguar XK8I wouldn’t call the Sierra a massive failure, it just didn’t dominate the market in the way it’s predecessor did. And the Jaguar XK8 was pretty much an unqualified success. Skizzer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skizzer Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 I wouldn’t call the Sierra a massive failure, it just didn’t dominate the market in the way it’s predecessor did. And the Jaguar XK8 was pretty much an unqualified success.True, I was more thinking in terms of the one-fatal-flaw rather than the massive-failure side of the question. The DB7 wasn’t a failure either, it was the cornerstone of AML’s revival. In fact I often argue that even the NSU Ro80 wasn’t quite the all-round catastrophe that blokes down the pub laugh at. Let’s not forget it was in production for 10 years, eight of them under VW ownership. We all know about the warranty issue, but that was as much about NSU being sub-scale as it was about the car itself; acquisition by Audi was likely at some point anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmsguzzi Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 A good modernshite example is the Infiniti QX30. Built in Sunderland using a lot of Mercedes parts and been on sale here for a couple of years. Just 200 are registered on our roads. That’s an even more epic failure than the Tagora was back in the day and a total disaster for a UK-built volume car. I can't think of any UK built car from a volume maker that has sold worse. Fairly common around here, my best mates Dad has one! Mind you I live in Sunderland..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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