More cars you didn't know existed...

[Jazzy Jag]

Peter911 said:

Here is a car I have just bought that I didn’t know existed.

Renault Juvaquatre about 1955. After buying it I popped onto the Renault Owners Club at the NEC classic car show. They had never heatd of it either. Are there any others in the UK?

This is what this thread should have more of, not pictures of every day cars with a unfamiliar engine or trim.

I consider myself a car guy (worked in the Industry for over 40 years) and had never seen one of those before.

[pits]

CharlieAlphaMike said:

Silvanus said:

Flumpo said:

CharlieAlphaMike said:

WhiskyDisco said:

Over in Stockholm I saw a HongQi this morning

https://www.hongqi-auto.com/pages/cartype/cartype_...

I saw one charging at the Tesla Supercharger at ICA Maxi, Haninge, two weeks ago. There's a dealership in Segeltorp I think. The thing that struck me was the sheer size of the thing. They are MASSIVE!

Wow, 5209mm long vs 5290 for a long wheel base s class.

It's still shorter than a LWB Cullinan and an EWB Bentayga.

But...it's still MASSIVE

It looks like something Rover would make, and their website is very Need For Speed Porsche Unleashed

[donkmeister]

pits said:

It looks like something Rover would make, and their website is very Need For Speed Porsche Unleashed

Which Rover looked like that?! The Metro? The 216?

[gruffgriff]

Chris944_S2 said:

Dodge Challenger special by Frua

Hmm, nice Monteverde High Speed fast back...bet Carlos was a bit pissed his paid-for design was being hawked about..

[Dapster]

To be fair to Carlos, Frua only had 1 design!

[gruffgriff]

[Benni]

Were these cast wheels exclusive to Frua, or BMW, and did they ever make production of these ?

[coppice]

gruffgriff said:

Chris944_S2 said:

Dodge Challenger special by Frua

Hmm, nice Monteverde High Speed fast back...bet Carlos was a bit pissed his paid-for design was being hawked about..

I was thinking this was the result of a one night stand between a Mangusta and an AC428/Maserati Mistrale .

[Strangely Brown]

coppice said:

I was thinking this was the result of a one night stand between a Mangusta and an AC428/Maserati Mistrale .

I was thinking ISO Griffo and Fiat Dino.

[Every day a journey]

I saw an Audi AS7??? SUV thing

Had lots of hideous tat stuck on it and a quite naff 'private' plate.

Guessing some ABT tinkered with thing. Was butt ugly.

[ajprice]

ajprice said:

daqinggregg said:

Mrs. DG was out and about today, spotted this little beauty; The ElectraMeccanica SOLO







$15,500 for a single occupancy, limited range, tadpole trike.

Aging Wheels did a video on this that is currently down but will hopefully come back online. But there's a bit on the 2 he's got in his fleet update, 15m 15s in.

The new video on the Solo will be up in a few days, he's had some YouTube problems with video editing.

[P5BNij]

The 1958 VW Porsche Kaiserslautern Coupe...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204724464619?itmmeta=01...

[Abbott]

Jazzy Jag said:

Peter911 said:

Here is a car I have just bought that I didn’t know existed.

Renault Juvaquatre about 1955. After buying it I popped onto the Renault Owners Club at the NEC classic car show. They had never heatd of it either. Are there any others in the UK?

This is what this thread should have more of, not pictures of every day cars with a unfamiliar engine or trim.

I consider myself a car guy (worked in the Industry for over 40 years) and had never seen one of those before.

There is a French Owners Club

https://www.jrhp.fr/site.juvaquatre/juvapage.htm

[RDMcG]

Jazzy Jag said:

This is what this thread should have more of, not pictures of every day cars with a unfamiliar engine or trim.

I consider myself a car guy (worked in the Industry for over 40 years) and had never seen one of those before.

I came across one to these years ago in Havana. Probably Lada-powered by then>....

[Jazzy Jag]

RDMcG said:

Jazzy Jag said:

This is what this thread should have more of, not pictures of every day cars with a unfamiliar engine or trim.

I consider myself a car guy (worked in the Industry for over 40 years) and had never seen one of those before.

I came across one to these years ago in Havana. Probably Lada-powered by then>....

I'm guessing those rear lights aren't original either.

[Matt Cup]

ajprice said:

ajprice said:

daqinggregg said:

Mrs. DG was out and about today, spotted this little beauty; The ElectraMeccanica SOLO







$15,500 for a single occupancy, limited range, tadpole trike.

Aging Wheels did a video on this that is currently down but will hopefully come back online. But there's a bit on the 2 he's got in his fleet update, 15m 15s in.

The new video on the Solo will be up in a few days, he's had some YouTube problems with video editing.

It’s back.

[Dapster]

Fancy a Citroen SM but worried that it is too common and not sufficiently complicated? No worries, Ligier made a couple of hundred JS2s in the early 70s with a mid mounted Maserati V6. They were sold through the Citroen network and the SM production eventually moved to the Ligier factory in in Abrest. It all went pear shaped when Maserati went into administration and Citroen was bought by Peugeot in 1975







https://cadycars.be/car/ligier-js2/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligier_JS2

[GravelBen]

No idea if its been in this thread already, but today I learnt about Ford's skunkworks V10 Mustang project of the early 2000s. Mad but cool.

https://www.motortrend.com/news/prototype-v10-ford...

[TREMAiNE]

GravelBen said:

No idea if its been in this thread already, but today I learnt about Ford's skunkworks V10 Mustang project of the early 2000s. Mad but cool.

https://www.motortrend.com/news/prototype-v10-ford...

While I did know about this already, it's always great to read up about it again. Truly epic.

I've always loved the look of the New Edge-era Mustangs, although their interiors are ghastly.
Removing the V8 does seem so very wrong, but replacing it with a monstrous V10 seems so very right!

Those quarter mile times are still impressive a quarter of a century later!

[coppice]

[quote=Dapster]Fancy a Citroen SM but worried that it is too common and not sufficiently complicated? No worries, Ligier made a couple of hundred JS2s in the early 70s with a mid mounted Maserati V6. They were sold through the Citroen network and the SM production eventually moved to the Ligier factory in in Abrest. It all went pear shaped when Maserati went into administration and Citroen was bought by Peugeot in 1975



/quote]


I saw one of those once, maybe at Goodwood? Hints of the Monica here but some aspects of the JS 2 - bonnet slats especially has triggered me , in the modern sense . I'm traumatised. Because I now have un-erased the Marcos Mantis from my memory - the car which is not so much jolie laide as plain laide. If it is any comfort , they do look a lot better in the flesh . Well, a bit maybe ...