Dinosaurs: Cars you cant believe they made so late

[sato]

If you walked into a Jaguar dealer in 1992 and ordered an XJ12 it would look like this, despite the boxy XJ40 being launched some 8 years earlier.




Similarly, a year after the 993 was launched you could still buy one of these.



I'm also always amazed you could buy a new Fiat X19 as late as 1989


Any others cars you can think of that seem to come from a different era to their contempories?

[slomax]

You could buy a brand new 2cv up untill the very early nineties.

[CDP]

From the LR website today.

[CDP]

The original mini managed to soldier on into the 21st century. Then there's:



Again today.

Of course, one thing all these cars have in common is they're all irreplaceable.

(Edited to get the link right).

Edited by CDP on Sunday 3rd October 12:27

[theironduke]

I'd prefer the SIII to an XJ40 any day...especially in black. Just looks "proper".

[Hitch78]

MGTF

Metro

Rover 200/400

Bit of a theme developing here....

[Ry_B]

All these cars are British

[Horns]

Mine:



1993.

[davepoth]

I think I win...

[slomax]

slomax said:

You could buy a brand new 2cv up untill the very early nineties.

I didn't realise these were British?? I know a fair few were made in Slough, but I wouldn't call them British.

Are they still making vw campers in south America?

Also, I think the trabant is still manufactured in Egypt under a different name, or am I making things up again?

[Twincam16]

A lot of stuff ends up being sent to other countries trying to set up car companies and technically 'lives on', but I think the obvious contender would have to be Russian - The GAZ M20 has a restyled nose and tail and sundry details here and there, but the essence of the car (including the petrol-option engine) can trace its origins back to 1956:



There's still a lot of this underneath it, windscreen and window-line are dead giveaways:

Edited by Twincam16 on Sunday 3rd October 12:54

Edited by Twincam16 on Sunday 3rd October 13:01

[AndrewW-G]

No thread like this is complete without the lovely Hindustan Ambassador

[Ricky_M]

Not a car, but.....

[Fahd]

Mercedes G-Class:

It begun production in 1979, and it's still on sale today (with some relatively minor modern tweaks).

Edited by Fahd on Sunday 3rd October 13:00

Edited by Fahd on Sunday 3rd October 13:02

[Twincam16]

Horns said:

Mine:



1993.

You could get the convertible version of that right up to 1995.

[slomax]

Apparently the car to be in continous production the longest is the Morgan 4/4 at 73 years and counting....




Eta: poor sentence structure

Edited by slomax on Sunday 3rd October 13:04

Edited by slomax on Sunday 3rd October 13:07

[Twincam16]

AndrewW-G said:

No thread like this is complete without the lovely Hindustan Ambassador

Hmmm. I'm not sure CKD cars count, as you could find all manner of stuff being produced for different world markets - you can still get an Austin Montego in China, for example. I think it's more interesting if they continued to be built in their country of origin and no-one really cared, like the GAZ.

[Horns]

Twincam16 said:

Horns said:

Mine:



1993.

You could get the convertible version of that right up to 1995.

Not quite - the convertible lasted until '94 - a year after the hard-top was replaced by the GM-derived version.

[Save Ferris]

sato said:

Any others cars you can think of that seem to come from a different era to their contempories?

I give you the Bristol Blenheim.

[Skylinecrazy]

Ricky_M said:

Not a car, but.....

I can't honestly believe that