Cars you didn't know existed...

[Usget]

Halmyre said:

McAndy said:

Halmyre said:

Something I saw recently - a Toyota Aristo; it's what the first incarnation of the Lexus GS300 was called in Japan. There's only about half-a-dozen in the country.

A friend used to have an Altezza; rebadged IS200.

I'd never heard of that either until I was searching Autotrader out of curiosity for 'Aristo', and the name popped up:

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/search/used/cars/toyot...

'drives prefect', apparently...

You never played Gran Turismo!?

[Gompo]

wildcat45 said:

Is it one of those based on a Beetle supposed to look like a 911 jobs?

From the A posts back, it looks OK - besr in mind I like Talbot Tagoras so my perception of what is good is very much open to question.

No, based on Peugeot 207 bits so the same engine as R56 Cooper S' etc. Got a bit of exposure when one was on a few episodes of Coronation Street. I don't think they look bad in a feminine roadster kind of way.

..Nothing wrong with Tagoras, either..

[ajprice]

Puddenchucker said:

PGO Cevennes

Rosie Webster had one in Coronation Street…
http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/s...

[Usget]

I'm in India this week and they get a nice looking little Honda that I've never seen before - the Brio.



Also there seems to be a tendency to use "VD" as a model designation... although that seems to have escaped the Honda.

[lickatysplit]

Halmyre said:

Urgh! Maybe it looks better from a different angle...



...nope...

With MG chicane alloys. bit of a cut and shut over lots of models here

[iva cosworth]

There's a "Noah"...Toyota I think around Wallington/Croydon.

Just some JDM small MPV,minivan thing.

[Hugo a Gogo]

there was a JDM Toyota called Masterace

didn't try to sell it in Germany I suppose

[LordGrover]

^^

[ajprice]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/formula1/32537504


This is on the BBC Monaco F1 text feed, and I'm not sure what it is. Its not a standard F12, and it doesn't look the same as the Touring Superleggera concept version from a while back http://www.gizmag.com/touring-superleggera-berline.... Somebody's one off commission? any ideas?

[daveco]

ajprice said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/formula1/32537504


This is on the BBC Monaco F1 text feed, and I'm not sure what it is. Its not a standard F12, and it doesn't look the same as the Touring Superleggera concept version from a while back http://www.gizmag.com/touring-superleggera-berline.... Somebody's one off commission? any ideas?

New California, shirley?

[Asterix]

Usget said:

I'm in India this week and they get a nice looking little Honda that I've never seen before - the Brio.



Also there seems to be a tendency to use "VD" as a model designation... although that seems to have escaped the Honda.

'Velly Deluxe'

[ajprice]

Oh yeah, umm,

For some reason, I completely forgot about the California, and I could only think of the F12 as a modern front engined Ferrari.

Moving on...

[MattHall91]

ajprice said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/formula1/32537504


This is on the BBC Monaco F1 text feed, and I'm not sure what it is. Its not a standard F12, and it doesn't look the same as the Touring Superleggera concept version from a while back http://www.gizmag.com/touring-superleggera-berline.... Somebody's one off commission? any ideas?

California T.

[Bonefish Blues]

Asterix said:

Usget said:

I'm in India this week and they get a nice looking little Honda that I've never seen before - the Brio.



Also there seems to be a tendency to use "VD" as a model designation... although that seems to have escaped the Honda.

'Velly Deluxe'

I'm looking forward to the tie up with a well-known ballpoint pen manufacturer.

[meehaja]

My mother in law has a Toyota Voxy/Noah its an 8 seater people wagon, automatic, 150 odd bhp and quite nice in a cruise all day on the motorway kind of way.

[Chris944_S2]

Citroen M35

[cirian75]

meehaja said:

My mother in law has a Toyota Voxy/Noah its an 8 seater people wagon, automatic, 150 odd bhp and quite nice in a cruise all day on the motorway kind of way.

Big 8 seat no nonsense car

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Toyota_...

[RizzoTheRat]

Just followed a Tuscani S3 Coupe, thinking the back end looked quite a bit like a Hyundai Coupe...turns out that's not surprising as they're the same car under a different name for some markets. Where they ever sold as a Tuscani in the UK or it an import or rebadged?

He pulled off and I found myself behind a Ford B-Max, I'm guessing that didn't sell that well as I don't recall ever seeing another one.

[McAndy]

RizzoTheRat said:

Just followed a Tuscani S3 Coupe, thinking the back end looked quite a bit like a Hyundai Coupe...turns out that's not surprising as they're the same car under a different name for some markets. Where they ever sold as a Tuscani in the UK or it an import or rebadged?

Aha! That answers that one for me, thanks.

RizzoTheRat said:

He pulled off and I found myself behind a Ford B-Max, I'm guessing that didn't sell that well as I don't recall ever seeing another one.

A friend is just about to order one as the sliding doors allow him to use his garage.

[blearyeyedboy]

cirian75 said:

Big 8 seat no nonsense car

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Toyota_...

Interesting barge. (Or ark?)