Cars you didn't know existed...

[richard300]

Blown2CV said:

marctwo said:

Toureg R50

some butthole round the corner from me has a white one

There cant be many cars with a larger brake disc/caliper set up, than these? They are huge.

BTW.... I'm inclined to agree that anyone that drives a white 4x4 is generally a butthole.

[b0rk]

iva cosworth said:

I got that wrong anyway as someone corrected me as the pic is of a 9-7X,apparently.

9-7X was never developed for RHD markets. It was another product killed by GM earlier than planned.

[QROPS]

b0rk said:

9-7X was never developed for RHD markets. It was another product killed by GM earlier than planned.

They had them in Thailand when I lived there and that's a RHD market.

[Mave]

QROPS said:

They had them in Thailand when I lived there and that's a RHD market.

Were they RHD though?

[QROPS]

Mave said:

QROPS said:

They had them in Thailand when I lived there and that's a RHD market.

Were they RHD though?

As far I'm aware they would be yes as the laws are pretty strict on that in the country, but I was living there a year ago now and my memory is foggy.

[northwest monkey]

poing said:

Is it wrong to like those? Showing my age again but I also remember the Sierra variant, was it P100 or something?

A builders merchant I had a Saturday job at had one - it was either a G or H reg and was the "Californian". It was excellent fun round wet roundabouts

[soad]

marctwo said:

Toureg R50

R model, 5.0-litre V10 engine, hence the R50 name?

[Malachimon]

K1 Attack Roadster: 3.0l ford V6


B-engineering Edonis: quad turbo Bugatti EB110 V12

[anonymous-user]

Spotted earlier this year. I guessed I'm never going to see another so took it for posterity.

[Chongwong]

Let me present the Cheetah, i want one!


Mental!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Thomas_Cheetah

[GravelBen]

Malachimon said:

K1 Attack Roadster: 3.0l ford V6

Ah, is that the engine they ended up using? I seem to remember the early concepts had a 2.0 Honda Vtec lump.

[Hugo a Gogo]

R_U_LOCAL said:

Not sure if this has been posted before, but I saw one of these on the M60 this afternoon...



Now, I thought what anyone else might think - a Vauxhall Astra convertible.

But no - this is the Vauxhall Cascada. It is an Astra convertible, of course, just with a more pretentious name, but for some reason its introduction had completely passed me by.

and it's ginormous!

[Malachimon]

GravelBen said:

Ah, is that the engine they ended up using? I seem to remember the early concepts had a 2.0 Honda Vtec lump.

There was a limited production run and they used the Ford unit but the kit versions use anything you want but the honda is usually the donor car

[iva cosworth]

Saw a Scion Open Deck today.

I checked on images and it's the correct name.

Perhaps someone with decent internet could grab a pic to post here,please.

[Davie]

iva cosworth said:

A SAAB 9-4X.....I had no idea it existed till I saw this in Sweden in July.

Weirdly, I was behind one of these a couple of days ago - grey one, filthy, foreign plate (white with red lettering) and errrr, that's it really.

[bobfett]

HKP said:

related to this (and you see them all over France) - the Pug 206 + which is essentially a 206 with a 207-esque front end and rear bumper..

Clio Campus type thing? Last gen model with a bit of a facelift as the cheap entry point into the range?

[omgus]

Phil303 said:

Spotted earlier this year. I guessed I'm never going to see another so took it for posterity.

There was one near me for a few months. You are not as subtle an unmarked car if everyone knows that the only R36 Passat estate within miles belongs to the local armed response boys.

[Blown2CV]

richard300 said:

Blown2CV said:

marctwo said:

Toureg R50

some butthole round the corner from me has a white one

There cant be many cars with a larger brake disc/caliper set up, than these? They are huge.

BTW.... I'm inclined to agree that anyone that drives a white 4x4 is generally a butthole.

i should qualify, the whole family has brand new white cars. They also have a RIB and one of those BMW expedition motorbikes. They also have no garage so all this stuff is on the drive and street. Not sure why but i think this could contribute to the butthole personality evaluation.

[Ungarsee]

Codswallop said:

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

Surely the electric love child of the Brubaker Box? I give you the Mia Electric. Saw one as a van in London and then it turned out that they sell them from a Daihatsu dealer in Croydon.

Mclaren F1 seat layout!!

[Blakewater]

Sensibleboy said:

We probably knew they made them but I've only ever seen one on the road - the 4 door Insignia. 99.9% must be hatchbacks.

Someone who often visits a house down the road from me has one and there are three around where I park at work. They're not that rare, just hard to tell apart from the 5dr at a glance. When Ford launched the current Mondeo they offered a 4dr version but ditched it in UK spec due to lack of popularity here.

Hugo a Gogo said:

R_U_LOCAL said:

Not sure if this has been posted before, but I saw one of these on the M60 this afternoon...



Now, I thought what anyone else might think - a Vauxhall Astra convertible.

But no - this is the Vauxhall Cascada. It is an Astra convertible, of course, just with a more pretentious name, but for some reason its introduction had completely passed me by.

and it's ginormous!

It's not that uncommon. It's been around for over a year. Vauxhall would like you to believe it's a competitor to the Audi A5 and BMW 4 Series convertibles.