Cars you didn't know existed...

[garycat]

ajprice said:

Pesty said:

Paul O said:

This:



Just launched in the US I believe. Really hope it comes over here! I want one!!!

And what is it.

Chrysler 200 http://www.autoblog.com/2014/01/17/2015-chrysler-2...

I saw that advertised when I was in the US recently - it has a 9-speed gearbox.

[Bonefish Blues]

StescoG66 said:

Bit too much of the A5 Sportback in that 200 for my liking . . .

Identical to that, too.

[Oh Danno]

SEAT Cordoba Cupra

[Bonefish Blues]

I quite like that with its ickle wheels.

[skyrocket13]

Lexus IS 300 Sport Cross! Saw one yesterday, had no idea.

[unsprung]

Some years ago, when I first saw this... I was almost jumping up and down. I was smitten.

[Blakewater]

LordGrover said:

vtecyo said:

BarbaricAvatar said:

Aixam cars i'd never heard of til a minute or two ago.







I miss the old times when i wasn't aware of these stboxes.

A rather rotund old guy pootles round Filton / Horfield (Bristol) in one of these. Genuinely sounds like a lawnmower, and the exhaust is about 1cm in diameter.

Maybe the same one I saw in Pucklechurch at the weekend then?

An old couple had an accident with one outside my office a few months ago. They turned right from a straight on lane on the dual carriageway, when they should have been using the right turn filter lane, and a Golf coming in the opposite direction collided with them. The Golf driver came out of it unscathed but the Aixam was a complete mess and the old couple were trapped until they had to be cut out of it.



As they're legally classified as quadracycles and not cars they don't have to meet the same safety regulations cars do.

[ajprice]

Dual carriageway? They top out at about 30 FFS!

[Blakewater]

It's only a 30mph dual carriageway. The Golf that hit it wasn't going that fast.

[MadmanO/T People]

MysteryLemon said:

Bonefish Blues said:

MysteryLemon said:

sday12 said:

ajprice said:

Pesty said:

Paul O said:

This:



Just launched in the US I believe. Really hope it comes over here! I want one!!!

And what is it.

Chrysler 200 http://www.autoblog.com/2014/01/17/2015-chrysler-2...

It looks great!
Shame it's a Chrysler

Looks almost exactly like an MG6. Nowt wrong with that though, the MG6 is a good looking car.

Has Sir considered a visit to the emporium of a local optician, perhaps

Perhaps it may be you that may need to a bisit to the emporium of a local optician?

The interior on the Chrysler looks much nicer than the MG6s and a very nice place to be too, although I expect that's a top of the range affair on the promo car.

If the MG6 has a doppelganger, it is the latest US-spec Toyota Corolla.


MG6




New USA-spec Toyota Corolla

[soad]

Qvale Mangusta.

[McAndy]

Originally born as the de Tomaso Biguà.

[Bonefish Blues]

Looks like the vehicular equivalent of a genetic experiment, there are so many different styling cues in there (I see Fiat Coupe, SLK, Masterati Shamal for starters)

[ajprice]

Lived on for a short while as the MG SV.

[iva cosworth]

Bonefish Blues said:

Looks like the vehicular equivalent of a genetic experiment, there are so many different styling cues in there (I see Fiat Coupe, SLK, Masterati Shamal for starters)

I too always saw Fiat Coupe in that.

[Bonefish Blues]

...and MX5 Mk2.5 Sport wheels, and a bit of MGF.

[Codswallop]

Here's one I'd not encountered before - the Brubaker Box from the 1970s.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8dBoKZuZys

I find it disturbingly cool

[wildcat45]

Futuristicly retro. I like it, especially those wheels and hope the interior came with lots of flashing LEDs. And rehash even a TV.

[RicksAlfas]

I followed a Renault Fluence at the weekend!
http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/renault/fluenc...

Never heard of it.

[DaveGoddard]

RicksAlfas said:

I followed a Renault Fluence at the weekend!
http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/renault/fluenc...

Never heard of it.

I saw tons of those in Dublin when I was working over there last year. Another car I saw several of there that I'd not heard of before was the Nissan Tiida:



Both of them fairly unattractive bland lumps of metal IMHO.