Rare Special Editions or "Tie Ups"

[texasjohn]

Carpie said:

BMW did a 4 wheel drive E30, the iX. Think it was just he 325s.

Would that be the only 4WD BMW, except for the X3/X5/X6 of course?

Not at all...

http://www.bmwusa.com/Standard/Content/Vehicles/20...

[JaymzDead]

Ace-T said:

Morningside said:

Out of all the cars listed on here, this is the one that made me go 'ooooooh, want that one!'.

Lovely.

Trace

There's a guy up the road from me who has one of these which has been sat in his drive for donkey's years, I don't think it's ever moved in the 3 years I've lived here. I didn't realise they were so rare, shame to see such a beautiful car rotting away. If I had the cash I'd knock on his door and offer to take it off his hands and restore it to it's former glory.

[f48koenig]

Avantime Zender Kit Sport



Alfa 155 Q4 T.I.Z by Zagato... Only for the Japan market !

[LuS1fer]

Morningside said:

LuS1fer said:

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Vauxhall Magnum Sportshatch:

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Anyone remember this one? The Vauxhall Blackwatch.

I did drive one. Owned by a lady (Honest).

I remember but for a sleeper, you had to look at South Africa. How about this Chevrolet Firenza Can Am:
290 horsepower from what was essentially a factory race-level five litre Chev V8. And the cars weighed just on 1100 kilograms.


South Africa also got a 5 door Sierra XR8

[sidaorb]

Nearly bought a Chevette Blackwatch when I was 18, but couldnt insure it

A few more greats


Capri Perana - South African V8 muscle


Brabham Viva



And now for a few that I have been lucky enough to own......


Mk II 2.0 JPS


Cosworth 24v great street sleeper barge

and of course my fave

[R5GTTGaz]

Integrale Evo 2 Lagos - 215 made, special paint, Crema Leather interior, edition plaque



There are also Club Hifi and a few others that only had a run of about 15.

[minimatt1967]

Nobody, has mentioned either the Renault 5 Raider or the Clio Williams!
Anybody got more info on that 340 Volvo at the beginning?

[Baby Huey]

minimatt1967 said:

Nobody, has mentioned either the Renault 5 Raider or the Clio Williams!
Anybody got more info on that 340 Volvo at the beginning?

Wasn't the Raider's only differnce from normal an RDS radio.

[minimatt1967]

Baby Huey said:

minimatt1967 said:

Nobody, has mentioned either the Renault 5 Raider or the Clio Williams! Anybody got more info on that 340 Volvo at the beginning?

Wasn't the Raider's only differnce from normal an RDS radio.

I know it definitlely had colour coded alloy's.... Not sure about the sounds!

[TankRizzo]

Merkur XR4ti



Rover 200 BRM

[RobboC]

MrMoonyMan said:

RobboC said:

I did have a Citroen AX GT500 which was pretty rare, can't find any pics, even online!

Awesome!!

Was a great car, very chuckable.

[iRoll]

boxster9 said:

[IMG]Lovely S70R[/IMG]

Very rare, approx 200 made.

It's just a shame that one of the even more scarce manual versions is the infamous Mynheer Volvo

[speedy_thrills]

I always found AMC Eagle (just called "Eagle" on the badge) interesting.

I've driven three now and they where good cars for the price TBH!

[morgrp]

Transmitter Man said:

That's the one End:

http://bringatrailer.com/2008/04/23/factory-homolo...

Nice.

Phil
79 De Tomaso Longchamp GTS

The G60 listed earlier (Built by VW Motorsport) was a super charged 16valve 1.8 - The Rallye was only an 8 valve

[morgrp]

sidaorb said:

Nearly bought a Chevette Blackwatch when I was 18, but couldnt insure it

A few more greats


Capri Perana - South African V8 muscle


Brabham Viva



And now for a few that I have been lucky enough to own......


Mk II 2.0 JPS


Cosworth 24v great street sleeper barge

and of course my fave

your T5-R looks the dog's nadger

[morgrp]

minimatt1967 said:

Nobody, has mentioned either the Renault 5 Raider or the Clio Williams!
Anybody got more info on that 340 Volvo at the beginning?

It was an "R-Sport" package that was Volvo's own factory approved tuning branch in the 80's. you used to get a brochure from your dealer and could have all manner of sporting bits fitted to your 300, 200 and 700 series volvo. That R-Sport 343 was one of only 100 made by Volvo (never sold in the UK)and has a 2.0litre volvo lump with with either 2 twin-choke webber 40's or the solex equivilant - I can't remember - they also ran a special interior, wheels, paint job, extra gauges, R-Sport steering wheel, sport exhaust, uprated anti rollbars and shocks etc.

When my mate used to work for Holden's in Norwich and they did R-Sport upgrades they also used to fit a dealer approved after market turbo kit to 240's as the factory 240 turbo was never made in RHD as the turbo compressor housing got in the way of the steering column the after market kit mounted it higher up although I have never seen one.

here's a vid of the 343 R-sport - Sounds the nuts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-3yik-mX1o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBrhae3CZ4U&fea...

The last real incarnation of the R-Sport brand was really the S60 R but they have diluted it so much now its called R-Design in the new ones. To me the ultimate R Volvo was the 850 T5-R made by TWR (see earlier in the thread)

[morgrp]

bit of a volvo theme here but here's another (only sold in Sweden and north America I believe)

The Volvo 240 Turbo Evolution (flat hood):



It was built to homologate the 240 for group A touring car racing - I think it came with a host of bolt on goodies in the boot in a bag

[boxster9]

boxster9 said:

Very rare, approx 200 made.

Forgot to add the model. Volvo S70R production between 1997-1999, 250BHP.

[LuS1fer]

On a Volvo run, who could ever stop wanting to forget the 262C?

[Plotloss]

morgrp said:

bit of a volvo theme here but here's another (only sold in Sweden and north America I believe)

The Volvo 240 Turbo Evolution (flat hood):



It was built to homologate the 240 for group A touring car racing - I think it came with a host of bolt on goodies in the boot in a bag

Used to work with a chap who had one of those, fantastic old bus.

Didnt the Swedish Police have something similar?