Rare editions of normal hatchbacks

[anonymous-user]

Neil1323bolts said:

. Yaris GRMN , had mine for a couple of years , bloody great car with its supercharged engine it was a rare with less than 100 in the uk

Dam you and Autotrader!

[carinaman]

Save Ferris said:

I've always been attracted to unusual hot hatches! in the past I've had a Polo G40 and a Satria GTI,

Currently I've got an Abarth Punto esseesse, one of approximately 30 in the UK

I like how the Punto Abarth alloys aped the wheels on the Strada/Ritmp 105TC:

[Leins]

Gad-Westy said:

Did you know they made 500 in early mark 2 shape as well? Think they were badged GT G40. All LHD. I half looked at importing one years ago but never got anywhere. Would actually still love one now and this thread has got me trawling german classifieds again!



Bit of a 1300cc record setter in its day as well. 130 mph for 24 hours straight.

https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/car-desig...

I did not - top G-lader knowledge there!

[Mildlyinterestd]

The one we all lusted after on our estate in the early 90s was a friends dad's Talbot Lotus Sunbeam.

[panholio]

ChevronB19 said:

SeekerOfTruthAndPies said:

Wasn't there a Rolling Stones Edition Polo as well at some point?

And a pink Floyd edition

ETA: whoops, my mistake, that was a golf

Edited by ChevronB19 on Thursday 28th July 15:26

I believe there was a Bon Jovi edition golf as well, but I only ever saw one in Europe.

[MDMA .]

Save Ferris said:

I've always been attracted to unusual hot hatches! in the past I've had a Polo G40 and a Satria GTI,

Currently I've got an Abarth Punto esseesse, one of approximately 30 in the UK

The special edition Scorpione was nice too.

[TheBALDpuma]

phumy said:

Martyn76 said:

phumy said:

The MK5 Golf GTi Pirelli.220 sold in RHD form and has the most powerful engine of the Mk5 Gti`s. The mods were, different seats with the tyre tread moulded into the seats, different "Pirelli" wheels, different steering wheel and wheels, oh and of course Pirelli tyres,

Same engine as the Mk5 Edition 30 just a different trim when all said and done?

When all said and done the Pirelli is more scarce.

Had mine coming up to six years and put around 100k on it in that time, about to tick over 150k soon. Great car but outside of the mk5 gti club no one gives a st

[JakeT]

Mini by Goodwood.

Standard Cooper S auto, with RR paint, leather and just about all of the options. 1,000 globally.



https://www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-spottedykywt/m...

[the-norseman]

Ultrafunkula said:

Mk1 SEAT Leon 2.8 VR6 24v Cupra 4, europe only I think so LHD.

Yep never made it to the UK, think 1 has been imported.

[the-norseman]

Ultrafunkula said:

Seat Leon 2.0 Sport Tfsi, a one year production before the FR was released. I had one for a while, almost a Q car as it had virtually no sporty addenda but a slightly detuned (185bhp) version of the Golf GTI's 2.0 turbo engine.

https://fastestlaps.com/models/seat-leon-2-0-tfsi

Mate had one of those from new, at the time we were doing some work for Tom Boardman BTCC team so he had his in the full race livery.

[anonymous-user]

Mildlyinterestd said:

The one we all lusted after on our estate in the early 90s was a friends dad's Talbot Lotus Sunbeam.

What a fantastic thread. I had a Talbot Horizon 1.3GLS for my first car. It was rotten, slow and the engine sounded like a bag of spanners but it looked a bit like this.

[MDMA .]

France got the MK1 Golf 16s. This was prior to VW having their own 16v engine ready, so was fitted with an Oettinger engine.

[Spare tyre]

Retro.74 said:

Citroën Visa Gti. Same engine from the 205 Gti (1.6), a bit like the 205s ugly sister really.

Edited by Retro.74 on Thursday 28th July 08:21

Good car

[vaud]

Spare tyre said:

Good car

Awful car, especially the electrics.

There is 1 left on the road, 18 SORNd.

[Proo freader]

Peugeot 104 Rallye

[Koolkat969]

Citreon DS3 Racing in 2011. Just only 200 were built in RHD so very rare!

[anonymous-user]

Koolkat969 said:

Citreon DS3 Racing in 2011. Just only 200 were built in RHD so very rare!

That's a cool looking car.

[Missy Charm]

J4CKO said:

Nissan Cherry Europe and Alfa Romeo Arna, a weird combo of Nissan Sunny body and Alfa mechanicals.

Lancia Y10 been mentioned, there was a Y10 "Fila" which is the sportswear the more "popular" girls at school wore, along with Kappa, usually replete with fag burns.

In the US you could get a versions of the Chrysler Horizon, a dumpy early eighties hatch, called the Dodge Omni in a Shelby variant called the GLH-S so instead of some Simca 1.3 50 bhp pushrod rattle box thing like we got they got a 2.2 turbo with 175 bhp.

The Shelby GLS-H isn't, in fact, a Talbot Horizon. I wrote a piece about it on the Autoste forum:

The Dodge Omni, which that Shelby is a variant of, isn't actually a Talbot Horizon. But it also is, in typical Chrysler fashion. In the seventies American Chrysler needed a small car to replace their Hillman Avenger captive import, which had been sold in the States as the Plymouth Cricket, so looked to the European arm again. They alighted on the then new Anglo-French Talbot/Simca/Chrysler Horizon and took the design back across the Atlantic.

The car design underwent significant changes Stateside to federalise various bits and pieces, as well as fitment of conventional strut suspension at the front and a range of different engines including the American 2.2 that became the basis of the powerplant in the Shelby GLSH pictured. The bodywork was altered in all sorts of ways to accommodate the American bits, which resulted in a car that was almost completely different to the European original yet looked almost exactly the same. One has to wonder about corporate operations, sometimes.

Could the Shelby have worked over here? No reason it shouldn't have, other than that we've never taken to large displacement four cylinder engines and the lack of spares support for the 2.2. The American Omni was also not engineered for RHD, presumably, as there was no reason to do so. It's also likely that the car would have had to have been 'de-federalised', as we wouldn't have accepted certain of the US foibles, such as sealed beam headlights, the cars over there ended up with; such a process would have entailed making special bits for it, as the European Horizon body panels were changed to fit federal bumpers, meaning it would be unlikely that Euro type bumpers would bolt onto the American car.

[LarJammer]

No mention of the excellently named Fiat Tipo Sedicivalvole? Boring car fitted with an exciting 2.0 16v engine. Same chassis as the Fiat Coupe.

[POIDH]

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