Are any cars actually extinct?

[NigelAllen]

I own a Yugo Sana. H15 YUG, taxed, ticketed ready to go.

I own an FSO Caro too, currently Mot'd but residing in France, temporarily.

[sjabrown]

NigelAllen said:

I own a Yugo Sana. H15 YUG, taxed, ticketed ready to go.

I own an FSO Caro too, currently Mot'd but residing in France, temporarily.

Well done on owning not one but two easily forgotten cars. It must be near a decade ago but I recall seeing 6 Sanas within 30minutes on a main road. Turns out there was a gathering of Yugos that day (in north east Scotland!!)

[NigelAllen]

my personal preference is for the slightly ' obscure'.


This year I've majored predominantly on Seat, now using a pair of Mk1 Ibiza's (12 & 1500), a Seat Ronda ( what a pile of cack they made that!), and I'm currently recommissioning a Malaga for regular use.
Weekends, hopefully late summer will see the 1430 Bocanegra hit the streets.

Sad....

[RichardM5]

Looks like the Proton Prism has been dead in the UK since 2009, what a shame.

[TooMany2cvs]

NigelAllen said:

my personal preference is for the slightly ' obscure'.

That's one way of putting it...

[TooMany2cvs]

RichardM5 said:

Looks like the Proton Prism has been dead in the UK since 2009, what a shame.

Quick google suggests it was just the early '90s Proton with a bodykit and some stickers, so there's plenty (too many?) of the basic car left.

[cymtriks]

TooMany2cvs said:

...not bad, if you believe the stories of VAG trying their hardest to buy 'em all up and crush 'em to try to remove the brand legacy...

Good Grief.
Proof that VAG were the worst thing that ever happened to Skoda.

Just imagine a line up of rear engine cars with something like a Smart Roadster at the start of the range up to something like an A610 Alpine at the top. Plus a proper 130 Rapid replacement in the middle.

Instead we get a whole range of rather ordinary VWs with a different badge on them to make them so different. I mean that badge makes everything so different? Possibly the most unimaginative and downright dull business decision they could possibly have made.

[TooMany2cvs]

cymtriks said:

TooMany2cvs said:

...not bad, if you believe the stories of VAG trying their hardest to buy 'em all up and crush 'em to try to remove the brand legacy...

Good Grief.
Proof that VAG were the worst thing that ever happened to Skoda.

Given that they almost certainly wouldn't have survived without a rich Western sugar-daddy, VAG or similar...

[anonymous-user]

Proton Prism? it what Proton Market as a Proton Saga re-badged Mitsubishi, first made by Proton in 1985 and already abandoned by Mitubishi, still available new from Proton today as a special order for Taxi companies, there millions of them outside my office as I write.

[9mm]

HML is fiction and serves no more purpose than to provide garbage content for sellers of garbage cars.

[esso]

Chrysler 180/ 2 litre? or Talbot Tagora ?

[Cooperman]

There no Standard Vanguards on the list, not the MK.1,2,3, Vignale or Sportsman.

[RichB]

9mm said:

HML is fiction...

It's amazing how many times people disprove the nonsense contained in that database and yet still people believe it.

[mph1977]

RichB said:

9mm said:

HML is fiction...

It's amazing how many times people disprove the nonsense contained in that database and yet still people believe it.

selective rejection of GIGO and the data set limitations ...

one for little Bobby Tables i think

[grumpy52]

MGgeordie said:

FSO Polonez?
Renault 20 & 30?
Yugo Sana?

Go on....prove me wrong!

Renault 20 at the car show in Deal last week , the first I have seen for ages .

[grumpy52]

MGgeordie said:

FSO Polonez?
Renault 20 & 30?
Yugo Sana?

Go on....prove me wrong!

Renault 20 at the car show in Deal last week , the first I have seen for ages .

[ClaphamGT3]

MGgeordie said:

FSO Polonez?
Renault 20 & 30?
Yugo Sana?

Go on....prove me wrong!

There was a renault 30 on ebay a couple of weeks ago.

The scrap page scheme accounted for loads of mundane 80s/90s kit and a lot now leaves the UK at end of life for a new life in Africa/Eastern Euope

[coppice]

Renault 6, Chrysler Horizon and Simca 1204 must be as rare as dodoes by now ? Or the 1 litre (Imp engined) Chrysler Sunbeam or Renault 20? But as we all know , of the 8000 Lotus Cortinas made , only 15,000 survive......

[Spottedlaurel]

esso said:

Chrysler 180/ 2 litre? or Talbot Tagora ?

Had the happy although rather unexpected sight of a smart 2-litre quite recently:

1978 Chrysler 2-Litre Automatique by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr


Sao Penza?

[exitwound]

[quote=peterperkins]The bloke with Maple garage near me has an immaculate Royale IIRC.

For my own cars.

Honda S800 x 1
52 Taxed 26 on Sorn

Honda Insight G1 x 3
217 taxed 34 on Sorn

Honda Civic IMA Executive x 1
1.2k Taxed 14 on Sorn[/quote

I had an £250 S800 when I was 19 in 1973.. I miss it terribly and its vices like the front starter pulley having to be rebuilt every so often with new springs, the oil pump tube seal below the head constantly leaking and dripping oil over the headers, but it was awesome to drive once you got the hang of not shifting gear at 4k, and the sheer sound (couldn't afford a new exhaust so I made one, ..F1 McLaren sound has nothing on this at 11k+!)

I hope you enjoy it to the max.. You'll never own another car that is so simple, yet has so much to offer..

Cheers..