Cars you never knew existed until recently...

[ChemicalChaos]

Saw a Renault Fluence in London recently:




never seen or heard of one before or since - I assume it isnt a UK market car?

[ChemicalChaos]

sebhaque said:

lamboman100 said:

Arj256 said:

There was a black one of these for sale in the UK a few days ago for about £20k, if memory serves.

Saturn Sky, I believe. The "successor" to the VX220. As sales show, it didn't really deserve the moniker.

One of these turned up the the Morgan Sunday Service and I had been trying to work out what it was! I had thought it was a an Opel-branded version of the Pontiac Solstice

[vsonix]

RedWhiteMonkey said:

daydotz said:

Vauxhall cascada

I really don't get GM's thinking on this one. The starting price is £24k, for that amount of money you could buy a low mileage BMW, Audi, Mercedes, etc. which would have much more presence and cache.

almost a whole year passed since Vauxhall Cascada I saw my first one two days ago - and was unaware of its existence - although to be fair, without looking at the badge I'd have said it was an Astra cabrio!

[slash79]

Audi A3 saloon! Why....?

[slash79]

kmpowell said:

I'll get the ball rolling, after accidentally stumbling across this today...

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/m...
Want... A lot!

[BorkFactor]

heppers75 said:

Toyota FJ Cruiser.

Mrs H and myself are looking for something as a car for having here in Turkey and this is high on the list... I cannot explain why I like it I just do! I think it is the mini-hummer esqe feel.

Funny you mention that, I saw a blue one of them yesterday. I did wonder what it was!

[Veeayt]

Leins said:

And finally, the Audi S4 Plus, with a 4.2 V8. Available as a saloon or Avant, and think someone on here has one

Edited by Leins on Tuesday 23 April 17:35

There wasn't such car as S4 Plus, there was S4 V8 ('91-94), S6 V8 ('95-97) and then S6 Plus ('96-97) with 326hp slightly detuned S8 32V engine, of which 97 were saloons and 855 estates

[Tuvra]

One of these odd looking things tore past me on trade plates last Friday:

[peterattheboro]

Forgot this thing existed till the other day. There's a few for sale on PH but never seen one in person. I guess the Fiesta ST is winning this battle.

[Leins]

Veeayt said:

There wasn't such car as S4 Plus, there was S4 V8 ('91-94), S6 V8 ('95-97) and then S6 Plus ('96-97) with 326hp slightly detuned S8 32V engine, of which 97 were saloons and 855 estates

I stand corrected . Hadn't realised they produced two versions of the S6 with a V8 alongside each other

Don't suppose you know of any magazine features on any of these from back then? They seemed to have been ignored by the larger motoring world from what I remember

Nice car btw!

[trashbat]

Tuvra said:

One of these odd looking things tore past me on trade plates last Friday:

I was sure I'd seen an Audi A1 saloon the other day, and it seemed to fit the trend of the Germans filling every stupid niche, but apparently there's no such thing. What did I see? This?

[Tuvra]

trashbat said:

was sure I'd seen an Audi A1 saloon the other day, and it seemed to fit the trend of the Germans filling every stupid niche, but apparently there's no such thing. What did I see?

Probably one of these, I had to go on to the Audi website to find out what it was as I also thought it was an S1 Saloon rather than an S3 saloon. I only knew it was an "S" Variant as it had 4 exhaust pipes, came off a roundabout fairly rapid and sounded pretty good.

[Mercury00]

Fiat Qubo. Never heard of it or seen one before until I saw one at a dealership:

[petrolsniffer]

the only one made iirc

[Liquid Tuna]

petrolsniffer said:

the only one made iirc

Is that one of those concept things they never actually sold? The wheels are off a 205/309 GTI as well. I don't think they were ever standard on any 405 model.

[Blib]

ChemicalChaos said:

Saw a Renault Fluence in London recently:




never seen or heard of one before or since - I assume it isnt a UK market car?

I saw one for the first time last week. We parked up next to each other and being nosey, I got chatting to the owner. He said it had a range of 80 miles. The car was a '12' plate and he told me that he bought it from a Renault main dealer for only £8,000. A lot of car for the money.

[P-Jay]

heppers75 said:

Toyota FJ Cruiser.

Mrs H and myself are looking for something as a car for having here in Turkey and this is high on the list... I cannot explain why I like it I just do! I think it is the mini-hummer esqe feel.

I like those, the interior is all rubberised and hose down.

[P-Jay]

Tuvra said:

One of these odd looking things tore past me on trade plates last Friday:

I like that, and with the A4 being the size of small African country these days, I can see the point of it.

[V8forweekends]

Blib said:

ChemicalChaos said:

Saw a Renault Fluence in London recently:




never seen or heard of one before or since - I assume it isnt a UK market car?

I saw one for the first time last week. We parked up next to each other and being nosey, I got chatting to the owner. He said it had a range of 80 miles. The car was a '12' plate and he told me that he bought it from a Renault main dealer for only £8,000. A lot of car for the money.

Fluence ZE is the electric one - seems to be available here.

The petrol one has been available in Ireland (but not the UK) for a while - I was in a taxi following one into Dublin last year - taxi driver said saloons (boot) are more popular in Ireland.

[toon10]

Save Ferris said:

This was mentioned in another thread, I had never heard of it!

Dodge Journey

My mate has just bought one of these. 7 seater for his 3 kids and his partners 2!