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5lab said:
oldsmobile tornado - '400bhp' (old measurement), v8, front wheel drive. The review makes me very glad cars have come a long way
https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/oldsmobile-to...
23 feet long, 7-litre V8 about 6" from the driver's head, front-wheel-drive. Do I want to try it? No thanks.
Big Raff said:
No ideas...i would want to say Suzuki or similar, but yeah...very odd car
DVLA says Toyota with 1290cc enginebut yeah, pretty obscure !
<EDIT>
OK, bit of googling....
apparantly it's a TOYOTA WILL VI
side view
Edited by MikeyC on Monday 5th February 14:55
Edited by MikeyC on Monday 5th February 14:55
MikeyC said:
Big Raff said:
No ideas...i would want to say Suzuki or similar, but yeah...very odd car
DVLA says Toyota with 1290cc enginebut yeah, pretty obscure !
<EDIT>
OK, bit of googling....
apparantly it's a TOYOTA WILL VI
side view
Edited by MikeyC on Monday 5th February 14:55
Edited by MikeyC on Monday 5th February 14:55
TonyF55 said:
Yep - Britain, Ireland and Asia received it (3.0 V6).On a similar note (the UK didn't receive it) the smallest diesel W221 was the S250 CDI (2.1 I4):
The biggest diesel W221 (again, the UK didn't receive it) was the S420 / S450 CDI (4.0 V8):
The engine (OM629) came to the UK in the W164 ML420 CDI and X164 GL420 CDI.
Halmyre said:
This device was built on a Toronado chassis.
23 feet long, 7-litre V8 about 6" from the driver's head, front-wheel-drive. Do I want to try it? No thanks.
Even in the intro to the Pink Panther you can clearly see the thing wobbling about all over the place, the weight distribution was so awful it was virtually impossible to control even at low speeds.23 feet long, 7-litre V8 about 6" from the driver's head, front-wheel-drive. Do I want to try it? No thanks.
thebigmacmoomin said:
This popped up in my facebook news feed, never seen one before.
1990's Ford Verona. Brazilian apparently.
is it just me or when you see these sort of things like a ford from places like brazil, argentina, africa, they always look like they've taken the design we would recognise over in the UK and just go OK how can fk this up by make our own small detail changes which just look st and jarring with the rest of the car? OK pencil time, quick fk up to the roofline, quick bks to the C pillar, shorten/lengthen the whole thing for some reason... aaaand done!1990's Ford Verona. Brazilian apparently.
It's almost like they can't help themselves - like they just have to put their mark on it somewhere.
Blown2CV said:
is it just me or when you see these sort of things like a ford from places like brazil, argentina, africa, they always look like they've taken the design we would recognise over in the UK and just go OK how can fk this up by make our own small detail changes which just look st and jarring with the rest of the car? OK pencil time, quick fk up to the roofline, quick bks to the C pillar, shorten/lengthen the whole thing for some reason... aaaand done!
That's pretty much how it looks to my eyes too. Indian booted superminis are the worstGassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff