More cars you didn't know existed...

More cars you didn't know existed...

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A Winner Is You

25,022 posts

229 months

Wednesday 25th November 2020
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VW Apollo, which as you've likely already noticed is a rebadged 2 door Orion


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220 posts

44 months

Wednesday 25th November 2020
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Volkswagen Taro, a rebadged Toyota Hilux.





Volkswagen Routan, a rebadged Chrysler Grand Voyager.





Volkswagen Polo Playa, a rebadged Seat Ibiza MK2.


egomeister

6,725 posts

265 months

Wednesday 25th November 2020
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... said:
Volkswagen Polo Playa, a rebadged Seat Ibiza MK2.

Which is really confusing, as the Ibiza is itself based on a Mk3 Polo

GrizzlyBear

1,077 posts

137 months

Wednesday 25th November 2020
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A Winner Is You said:
VW Apollo, which as you've likely already noticed is a rebadged 2 door Orion

South Africa by any chance?

finlo

3,791 posts

205 months

Wednesday 25th November 2020
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GrizzlyBear said:
South Africa by any chance?
South America more likely.

A Winner Is You

25,022 posts

229 months

Wednesday 25th November 2020
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GrizzlyBear said:
A Winner Is You said:
VW Apollo, which as you've likely already noticed is a rebadged 2 door Orion

South Africa by any chance?
Brazil in this instance

Derventio

1,232 posts

100 months

Thursday 26th November 2020
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Not sure if we have had this yet.

You probably have all heard of the Renault Safrane but did you know they did one with Twin Turbo V6 with a manual 'box and 4WD?

Built with input from Hartge and Irmscher, apparently.
I really like this. I once had the pleasure of driving a V6 Safrane and found it to be a supremely comfortable wafty barge.
More information here: https://www.influx.co.uk/cars/renault-safrane-bitu...

I have also just found out that they did a Safrane fitted with a Volvo 2.5 5-pot diesel, too.


Edited by Derventio on Thursday 26th November 09:20

Randy Winkman

16,442 posts

191 months

Thursday 26th November 2020
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biggbn said:
CanAm said:
Doofus said:
Randy Winkman said:
It's not quite on topic but I love 2+2s. Do they even exist now due to safety issues?
Not sure what you mean by 2+2s, because yes, they do still exist. Porsche 911, Lotus Evora, Audi TT, Toyota GT86 all spring immediately to mind.
The Toyota iQ was the worst. Rear passengers’ backs and heads being just inches from the rear of the car.
Iq wasn't a 2 + 2, more a 3 + 1. Absolute masterpiece of packaging, love them
Cheers folks. It was an aside but I'm grateful for being reminded of some recent ones. I like the Evora a lot; a proper 2+2 in the style of a 308GT4 or a Urraco.

Jader1973

4,089 posts

202 months

Friday 27th November 2020
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I only just found out that there was a Citroen 22CV which was shown at the 1934 Paris Salon but which never made production. The cars for the show used Ford flathead V8s but Citroen were developing their own.





http://www.citroenet.org.uk/prototypes/22cv/22cv.h...


Apparently the cars that were built were converted back to 11CVs and sold to staff. A Dutch bloke has built a replica using a Ford engine.





BuzzBravado

2,944 posts

173 months

Friday 27th November 2020
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Neighbours of my in-laws have a Suzuki Kizashi Sport. Only one i've ever seen.


waynecyclist

9,049 posts

116 months

Friday 27th November 2020
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BuzzBravado said:
Neighbours of my in-laws have a Suzuki Kizashi Sport. Only one i've ever seen.

That is quite good looking

Doofus

26,311 posts

175 months

Friday 27th November 2020
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BuzzBravado said:
Neighbours of my in-laws have a Suzuki Kizashi Sport. Only one i've ever seen.

They can't be that rare. There have been about half a dozen of them on this thread. smile

irocfan

40,830 posts

192 months

Fast Bug

11,797 posts

163 months

Friday 27th November 2020
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Jay Leno has one, there's a feature on it on his youtube channel. Bonkers little thing biggrin

carlove

7,589 posts

169 months

Friday 27th November 2020
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Doofus said:
They can't be that rare. There have been about half a dozen of them on this thread. smile
To be fair it’s not been on volume 2 yet.

I bet there’s been more mentions of it in the thread than actual models on the road, there must have been 6 mentions. laugh

irocfan

40,830 posts

192 months

Friday 27th November 2020
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have we had this Isuzu Vehicross yet?


GeordieInExile

683 posts

122 months

Saturday 28th November 2020
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I remember Auto Express doing a group test once of concepts which were unchanged as production cars. It had the awesome Renault Spider in it and a couple of others that I've forgotten.

Quite like the Vehicross for what it is.

CanAm

9,365 posts

274 months

Saturday 28th November 2020
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GeordieInExile said:
Quite like the Vehicross for what it is.
Of its Ilk, i quite like it. smile

eldar

21,896 posts

198 months

Saturday 28th November 2020
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CanAm said:
GeordieInExile said:
Quite like the Vehicross for what it is.
Of its Ilk, i quite like it. smile
Looks like the bd child of a slightly barried RAV 4 and City Rover.

irocfan

40,830 posts

192 months

Saturday 28th November 2020
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Panoz for you?