Cars you didn't know existed...

[j44esd]

sleepera6 said:

Should be an easy one.
Or is it?

Santana?

[talksthetorque]

It's a nice car. Lost on me what it is though.

[carlove]

I was behind a Nissan Tiida at the weekend, not a nice looking car, ste driver as well, could not stick to a lane.

Also saw a Suzuki SX4 saloon, a new one on me, you may be familiar with the crossover thing.

[j44esd]

talksthetorque said:

It's a nice car. Lost on me what it is though.

That's terrible

[anonymous-user]

It is indeed a Santana.

[Hellboy1980]

Crafty_ said:

One of these has just turned up in the car park at work, Proton Satria its an 07 plate. Appears to actually designed/made by Proton with a Mitsubishi engine and a "handling by lotus" badge. Its the same colour as the first picture too.

The owner has an 100 mile round trip commute, so I suspect its been bought cheap and will be run to the death. It replaces a complete shed of a 5 series that someone rear ended.

Reminded me of the late Rover 25

[phil y]

Infiniti QX80. Was passed by a Russian plated one on the M6 today. Aside from being a long way from home, it was huge, and very imposing.

[Steamer]

Damn ugly too!

Looks like a Dodge Ram mounted a Volvo XC90

[F1GTRUeno]

poing said:

This is for sale near me right now for £7k, never heard of it before! Mitsubishi Airtrek 2.0 Turbo R

That looks a million times better than normal due to being lowered and on OZ-style rally wheels.

[rohrl]

[ChevronB19]

rohrl said:

There's a (very quiet) MG and Ssang Yong dealership across the road from where I work. They seem to have plenty of spare time. Sad what happened to MG.

[Track Rod]

There's a 54 plate Mondeo Zetec S for sale on AT near me. 3.0 V6! I thought that it was only the ST220 and Ghia X with that engine. Looks rather lovely too!

[McAndy]

Track Rod said:

There's a 54 plate Mondeo Zetec S for sale on AT near me. 3.0 V6! I thought that it was only the ST220 and Ghia X with that engine. Looks rather lovely too!

An ex-colleague had one of those. Nice and subtle...apart from it being bright red!

[SonicShadow]

Toyota Curren.

An oddity of the Japanese market.









http://www.goo-net.com/usedcar/spread/goo/16/70007...

Essentially it's a Gen6 Celica.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Curren

"The Toyota Curren was a Japanese automobile built by the Toyota Motor Corporation. It was based on the Toyota T200 chassis. It shared the same interior and rear end design as the 1994-1998 Toyota Celica coupé. Instead of having four round headlights like the Celica, it had a rectangular headlight design providing a more traditional halogen headlight appearance. Modifying the appearance of the Celica allowed Toyota to sell the Curren at Toyota Vista Store locations, as the Celica was exclusive to Toyota Corolla Store locations. The Curren directly replaced the Toyota Corona Coupe, which was exclusive to Toyopet Store locations"

[McAndy]

Preludica!

[SonicShadow]

I quite like the look. I wonder how compatible the panels are - a front end swap on a GT4 would be quite decent I think!

[Buzypea]

6 years ago I accidentally stumbled across this Corolla TTE Compressor for sale on AutoTrader. Never knew such a thing existed. Took a test drive and was smitten so bought it.

[Jimmy Recard]

I've never heard of a Toyota Curren. Apart from the stupid name, it looks about a million times better than the related Celica

[SonicShadow]

Jimmy Recard said:

I've never heard of a Toyota Curren. Apart from the stupid name, it looks about a million times better than the related Celica

None on howmanyleft apparently. I'm 90% sure I saw one in the UK about a year ago, at the time I had no idea what it was other than looking a lot like a Celica from the back and having a Toyota badge. Chances are that any in the UK are probably registered as a Celica though.

[ambuletz]

SonicShadow said:

Jimmy Recard said:

I've never heard of a Toyota Curren. Apart from the stupid name, it looks about a million times better than the related Celica

None on howmanyleft apparently. I'm 90% sure I saw one in the UK about a year ago, at the time I had no idea what it was other than looking a lot like a Celica from the back and having a Toyota badge. Chances are that any in the UK are probably registered as a Celica though.

it could well have been a celica convertible. the celica of that era was basically a curran from the rear, with the currans rear headlights.