More cars you didn't know existed...

[Silvanus]

ajprice said:

Silvanus said:

I've fallen down a bit of a Fiat sized rabbit hole, there's all sorts around the world.

Fiat Fastback

Found a page in English with decent details on it https://moparinsiders.com/fiat-brazil-introduces-i.... It seems similar to the Renault Arkana or Peugeot 408 we get here now, but without the hybrid/EV drive, just a 1.0 or 1.3 turbo.

Its quite interesting looking at manufacturers websites around the world to see all the cars we don't get

[Hobbes003]

Peugeot and Pininfarina produced a coupe based on the Peugeot 504. But Pininfarina also did a study for a shooting break based on that coupe: the 504 Riviera. Only one was built. A replica has recently been completed by HC Classics.
The boot features a wooden floor.





The replica:

[finlo]

Hobbes003 said:

Peugeot and Pininfarina produced a coupe based on the Peugeot 504. But Pininfarina also did a study for a shooting break based on that coupe: the 504 Riviera. Only one was built. A replica has recently been completed by HC Classics.
The boot features a wooden floor.





The replica:

Not as pretty as the fiat Maremma concept.

[Doofus]

Brake.

[Hobbes003]

Peugeot calls their stationwagons breaks.

[Doofus]

Hobbes003 said:

Peugeot calls their stationwagons breaks.

Yes, but a shooting brake is called a shooting brake.

[G-wiz]

Audi Q6, which is actually larger than a Q7:

[Chromegrill]

Dapster said:

Reminds me of this monstrosity I spotted (at Pontins in Camber Sands of all places)





A 1 of 3 V8 "Sportsman" conversion by Aston Martin themselves. This one sold for £350k in 2017 - should have gone to Specsavers...

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24119/lot/217/?ca...

I guess it's a case of, when you've already sunk that amount of money on something you'll just be grateful to take whatever it ends up looking like.

[biggbn]

finlo said:

Hobbes003 said:

Peugeot and Pininfarina produced a coupe based on the Peugeot 504. But Pininfarina also did a study for a shooting break based on that coupe: the 504 Riviera. Only one was built. A replica has recently been completed by HC Classics.
The boot features a wooden floor.





The replica:

Not as pretty as the fiat Maremma concept.

Prettier to my eyes, Fiat has something of the night about it....

[Hobbes003]

Ferrari Pinin, a Pininfarina concept for a 4-door version of the Ferrari 412.





The idea is intriguing, but the front of the car would have been better off with a normal 412 nose. Now it looks like a flattened Opel Senator.

[Missy Charm]

Hobbes003 said:

Ferrari Pinin, a Pininfarina concept for a 4-door version of the Ferrari 412.





The idea is intriguing, but the front of the car would have been better off with a normal 412 nose. Now it looks like a flattened Opel Senator.

That's unfair: the Ferrari pictured predates the Vauxhall Senator B by about seven years. The resemblance is uncanny, however. Perhaps someone at GM saw it and applied the styling to their project. The Ferrari has also got that floating roof appearance that was all the rage in the late eighties and early nineties, particularly in America; it's ahead of its time in many ways.

[P5BNij]

Another rare Italian I've only just discovered - the LMX Sirex 2300 of 1968, it's estimated only fifty or so were built of which about half survive. Built by a company called Limaplus (formed in '67) using a Lotus style backbone chassis and fibreglass body and powered by a 2293cc Cologne V6...

[RosscoPCole]

Hobbes003 said:

Ferrari Pinin, a Pininfarina concept for a 4-door version of the Ferrari 412.





The idea is intriguing, but the front of the car would have been better off with a normal 412 nose. Now it looks like a flattened Opel Senator.

Is that a Guernsey number plate on it?

[NomduJour]

Yes, also its chassis number.

[ae2006]

Only a concept car but i still want to share the Peugeot 908 RC, a super saloon with a rear/mid mounted V12 twin turbo diesel based on the engine from the LeMans racer. Pure, beautiful madness.

Source - Wikipedia

[gareth h]

Saw this in Lisbon a few days ago, had to google it as hadn’t even heard the name before

[Giulia Jon]

Cisitalia to save others asking

Tazio Nuvolari drove their small race cars to some successes .

[67Dino]

[quote=P5BNij]Another rare Italian I've only just discovered - the LMX Sirex 2300 of 1968, it's estimated only fifty or so were built of which about half survive. Built by a company called Limaplus (formed in '67) using a Lotus style backbone chassis and fibreglass body and powered by a 2293cc Cologne V6...




Like the love child of a Fiat Dino and a Peugeot 505. I rather like it.

[Rumdoodle]

Hobbes003 said:

Ferrari Pinin, a Pininfarina concept for a 4-door version of the Ferrari 412.

Minor point - at that time it was still the 400. The 412 was a few years later.

The way the Pinin was written about in books and magazines at the time, it sounded like it was really expected to go into production, despite the travesty of a four door Ferrari. They rather cautiously waited another forty years.

[seefarr]

Hobbes003 said:

Peugeot and Pininfarina produced a coupe based on the Peugeot 504. But Pininfarina also did a study for a shooting break based on that coupe: the 504 Riviera. Only one was built. A replica has recently been completed by HC Classics.
The boot features a wooden floor.

The replica:

We saw this at the Hampton Court concours recently and it is a a strikingly handsome vehicle in the metal.