Variants we never got

[NorfolkNWeigh]

6 hours ago, Spiny Norman said:

Always loved the 2 door versions of big saloons you could get in mainland Europe, wonder why we were never offered them here.

A 200 5T Quattro version of that 100 would have been an SEC rival, it looks so smooth and elegant.

[chaseracer]

7 hours ago, Mr Laurence said:

Peugeot 205 Multi

I have the brochure for this.

[bunglebus]

31 minutes ago, Sudsprint said:

Brazil is a hotbed of interesting cars that no-one else got, the Cortina coupé up there ^ is one example. VW SP2 is another

[lesapandre]

Renault 7....a  5 + boot...= 7.

[wuvvum]

1 hour ago, Sudsprint said:

I see what you did there.

[sierraman]

Like these, still a fairly common sight in some parts of Spain. The last ones with the smoked rear lights looked great. 

[sierraman]

Renault Thalidomide 

[ProgRocker]

10 hours ago, Spiny Norman said:

Always loved the 2 door versions of big saloons you could get in mainland Europe, wonder why we were never offered them here.

It must be down to demand for the product. Motorists buying a larger car in UK expect rear doors. 

I remember going on holiday to Majorca in 1989 and was taken aback with the 3 door mark 2 Sierras on the roads. 

I watched a YouTube video on the channel 'Big Car' about the VW Polo and was surprised that there was a mark 1 GT version, which looked really smart. 

[martc]

 

I'm sure these would have sold like hot cakes.

[ProgRocker]

Not my photo:

 

[sierraman]

4 minutes ago, ProgRocker said:

Not my photo:

 

Surely it was competing with the scirocco 

[UltraWomble]

16 hours ago, omegod said:

if a worker ordered a new car everyone on the line knew about it and to add ( wholly unofficially  ) whatever the owner wanted as it went down the line and what came off the end was basically a 4 door RS2000 

There was at least one three door ADO16 made. But not a 3 door in the way you are thinking - the owner worked on the production line and had kids he decided that he wanted them only to have the ability to exit the car on the NS onto the pavement and hence the 3 door was made - one door on the drivers side and 2 on the passenger side.

Im sure I saw a photo of it sometime in the 80's when it surfaced for sale

Anyway moving on from urban  legends how about the Micra Box...

Nissan also did a 4X4 K11 in LHD flavour

 

[sierraman]

5 minutes ago, UltraWomble said:

There was at least one three door ADO16 made. But not a 3 door in the way you are thinking - the owner worked on the production line and had kids he decided that he wanted them only to have the ability to exit the car on the NS onto the pavement and hence the 3 door was made - one door on the drivers side and 2 on the passenger side.

Im sure I saw a photo of it sometime in the 80's when it surfaced for sale

Anyway moving on from urban  legends how about the Micra Box...

Nissan also did a 4X4 K11 in LHD flavour

 

I’d call bullshit on that. Imagine the fuck about that would have involved. Mind you I think anything went at BL so it’s possible...

[UltraWomble]

22 minutes ago, martc said:

 

I'm sure these would have sold like hot cakes.

See also Dokker & Lodgy

 

[Noel Tidybeard]

i see your micra box and raise you one honda jizz/fit shuttle

[bunglebus]

3 hours ago, wuvvum said:

I see what you did there.

Two can play that game

 

[HMC]

Later, 2 door Range Rover variants eg 200tdi 90s models in relatively utilitarian spec....

[Stanky]

17 hours ago, Motown said:

Not quite sure if this is relevant or not but I would have bought this 100% 

Its got tax and a test

 

So whats underneath? XF?

[Motown]

12 hours ago, Spiny Norman said:

What even is that, mock up of a 21st century SD1?
Me likey whatever it is.

 

Yup the modern version never got further than one concept car with Jaguar underpinning i think 

[Motown]

23 minutes ago, Stanky said:

Its got tax and a test

 

So whats underneath? XF?

That's really interesting i was of the belief they only made the one concept car which possibly had jaguar underpinnings but i didn't know what

[Stanky]

8 minutes ago, Motown said:

That's really interesting i was of the belief they only made the one concept car which possibly had jaguar underpinnings but i didn't know what

Jaguar XJ according to https://www.check-mot.service.gov.uk/

Leggy too, 159k at the last MOT test. Very clean history though

[Motown]

1 minute ago, Stanky said:

Jaguar XJ according to https://www.check-mot.service.gov.uk/

Leggy too, 159k at the last MOT test. Very clean history though

Proper little detective! Nice work much appreciated. Do you think the plates may have been moved/sold on or its actually the concept car? If it is the car i would love to see it or at the very least know more about it. 

[Stanky]

Thats the tough bit, the plate could have been moved to an actual XJ, or never left the actual XJ and just been used for the publicity shots you have shared, and its just on some leggy XJ somewhere. It seems to be doing a decent mileage between tests, 7-10k per year so whatever the plate is on is driving about somewhere in the wild.

 

Googling the reg turns up a small number of pics of an ACTUAL XJ in pale blue with that reg

so it may be that the concept never saw the actual road, and just had the plate of this car stuck on for the pics?

[New POD]

1 hour ago, sierraman said:

I’d call bullshit on that. Imagine the fuck about that would have involved. Mind you I think anything went in British car manufacturers so it’s possible...

I have anacdotally heard about 3 door mk2 escorts built by mistake, marinas with drum brakes on one front side and discs on the other.  Avengers with a different shade of green paint on each side (due to one painter saying "what colour is this one" and the other saying "Apple green" and the first hearing "fucking green, twat" 

[New POD]

3 hours ago, sierraman said:

Like these, still a fairly common sight in some parts of Spain. The last ones with the smoked rear lights looked great. 

https://www.mk2cav.com/topic/23126-rabs-1986-opel-ascona-gt-rebuild/

 

 

[Mr Laurence]

4 hours ago, UltraWomble said:

There was at least one three door ADO16 made. But not a 3 door in the way you are thinking - the owner worked on the production line and had kids he decided that he wanted them only to have the ability to exit the car on the NS onto the pavement and hence the 3 door was made - one door on the drivers side and 2 on the passenger side.

Im sure I saw a photo of it sometime in the 80's when it surfaced for sale

 

I saw some fairly recent looking photos of a 3 door ADO16 like this a few years ago. I’ve searched but I can’t find them anywhere now. It was in a pretty sorry state. Could it have been the same one? I think the general consensus was that it had been converted by a college somewhere teaching accident repairs, but nobody knew for certain.

[willswitchengage]

Rover Concerto diesel. It was just a pre-facelift R8 with a Honda badge though.

[Mr Laurence]

Spain, Australia and South Africa all had Mini variants that never made their way over here

[Timewaster]

5 hours ago, UltraWomble said:

See also Dokker & Lodgy

 

I suspect the Lodgy would have killed the Scenic in the UK.  Probably why we never got it. 

[bunglebus]

Several attempts at fibreglass Minis were made. Cord:

Chilean fibreglass Mini: