Daimler Corsica

[Simpo Two]

Never heard of this but I think I'd have bought one!

https://www.facebook.com/reel/2262371011281991

You can find the same video on YouTube but you can't scroll along the timeline which I find annoying.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/il0lLNjBMM8

[Agent57]

Simpo Two said:

Never heard of this but I think I'd have bought one!

https://www.facebook.com/reel/2262371011281991

You can find the same video on YouTube but you can't scroll along the timeline which I find annoying.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/il0lLNjBMM8

They should have sold that car. I remember seeing it at the British Motor Museum.

Videos are in portrait for some reason. Don't think the yoof Tiktok generation will be into these.

[Simpo Two]

Agent57 said:

Videos are in portrait for some reason. Don't think the yoof Tiktok generation will be into these.

Agreed, vertical video is a curse. Want to film a wide low thing? Hey, let's just film the middle bit and have loads of useless sky and foreground!

[dbdb]

The Daimler Corsica was made into a fully working car by David Marks about (IIRC) 15 years ago. There was a fair bit written online about it at the time.

[GeniusOfLove]

Given the X300 wasn't the stiffest thing to start with I imagine the flexing and shuddering would have made it impossible to sell no matter how many hundreds of kilos of stiffening they threw at it. It would have ended up being north of 2 tons.

Looks beautiful though.

[spreadsheet monkey]

dbdb said:

The Daimler Corsica was made into a fully working car by David Marks about (IIRC) 15 years ago. There was a fair bit written online about it at the time.

Interesting stuff. I'd seen a few photos before but didn't know much about it.

It was only produced as a rolling shell for display purposes, but it still had a really nicely engineered electric roof mechanism (adapted from an Audi A4 cabrio). David Marks dropped in the running gear from a Jag X300, and got it SVA'd and MOT'd and road legal.

https://www.davidmarksgarages.co.uk/daimlercorsica...

[RDMcG]

What a gorgeous car. Shame it was not produced in series.

[spreadsheet monkey]

RDMcG said:

What a gorgeous car. Shame it was not produced in series.

I guess Jag had the XK8 for those who wanted a four seater convertible (even though the back seats were very small).

As others have said, a big saloon-based convertible like this would have had poor structural rigidity, and it would have to be priced very high to make any commercial sense, so Jaguar just couldn't make a case for it.

[Simpo Two]

The odd thing is that although the roof stows under a cover, they've made the cover look like an exposed hood, X100-style.