Interesting cars you never knew existed?

[sawman]

Marquis Rex said:

Maxis

Actually there is one of these up for grabs at a dealer around the corner - 19k miles, metallic green, brown velour all for £3k

I keep thinking I'll go and have a look for nostalgia sake

[Baked_bean]

I am starting a new job in a few days and whilst researching i found that lexus do an is250 convertible?! since when?!

[JayTee94]

Baked_bean said:

I am starting a new job in a few days and whilst researching i found that lexus do an is250 convertible?! since when?!

2009 IIRC.

[Alfa numeric]

marcosgt said:

Come on! What is it with Ronin? It's got one, rather meh car chase it and the rest of the film is Euro B-movie, at best.

Most over-rated film ever? Probably not, but possibly on PH

Go rent it, you might love it, but it doesn't deserve the praise it gets and for me belongs in the same category as "All proper Pistonheads must have owned an Alfa" - Another Clarkson peddled nonsense.

M

Couldn't agree more. It's like Bullett- a great car chase wrapped in a "meh" film. I've watched it once and have no desire to see it again. In contrst Grand Prix, Le Mans and C'etat Un Rendezvous are in heavy rotation on my DVD player.


Back to the topic- I spend a long evening telling a work colleague how his mate must have built a 309GTI 16V as Peugeot didn't make them. Turns out they did, they just didn't sell them over here.

[Benny Saltstein]

The Spruce goose said:

Passet r36 300 bhp.

I have also spotted the slightly lesser Passat V6 4motion which manages a reasonable 250bhp, 7ish 0-60 time and as is lacking the "R" badge goes under the radar.

[Hugo a Gogo]

marcosgt said:

OdramaSwimLaden said:

Butter Face said:

Hugo a Gogo said:

you've never seen Ronin then?

Nope

Am I about to get a beating?

If you haven't seen Ronin, you've suffered enough!

Fixed that!

Come on! What is it with Ronin? It's got one, rather meh car chase it and the rest of the film is Euro B-movie, at best.

Most over-rated film ever? Probably not, but possibly on PH

Go rent it, you might love it, but it doesn't deserve the praise it gets and for me belongs in the same category as "All proper Pistonheads must have owned an Alfa" - Another Clarkson peddled nonsense.

M

Edited by marcosgt on Monday 27th February 23:05

you clearly don't know what colour the boat house is in Heeerford

it's got TWO car chases, several cool shoot outs, Sean Bean being a dick and Robert De Niro and Jean Reno being cool

and C'etat un rendevous? 10 minute film of a bloke driving reasonably quickly through deserted streets with dubbed on sound? ok to see once, but that's it

[AlexiusG55]

It took me a while to find out about the Buick Grand National GNX. Had I seen one before a year or so ago, I would have thought it was either aftermarket modified or just another American 80s all-show-no-go "performance" car.



It really wasn't- 276 "official" horsepower, but presumably quite a lot more given that it hit 60 in 4.7 seconds. For a Buick, in 1987...

[Baked_bean]

JayTee94 said:

2009 IIRC.

Thanks, i don't know if i have ever seen one before.

[jains15]

Until I saw Rowan Atkinson on Top Gear I had no idea of the existence of the V16 Rolls Royce Phantom, it saddens me that the concept never made it into production but it pleases me that the car is effectively under engined with the V12 as the car went into production still able to take the 16cyl engine if needed.

Things like this still need to me made IMHO

[Frances The Mute]

Alfa numeric said:

marcosgt said:

Come on! What is it with Ronin? It's got one, rather meh car chase it and the rest of the film is Euro B-movie, at best.

Most over-rated film ever? Probably not, but possibly on PH

Go rent it, you might love it, but it doesn't deserve the praise it gets and for me belongs in the same category as "All proper Pistonheads must have owned an Alfa" - Another Clarkson peddled nonsense.

M

Couldn't agree more. It's like Bullett- a great car chase wrapped in a "meh" film. I've watched it once and have no desire to see it again. In contrst Grand Prix, Le Mans and C'etat Un Rendezvous are in heavy rotation on my DVD player.

Le Mans is a self-indulgent mess compared to Ronin.

Besides, Vanishing Point is where it's really at...

Edited by Frances The Mute on Tuesday 28th February 11:08

[Alicatt1]

AlexiusG55 said:

It took me a while to find out about the Buick Grand National GNX. Had I seen one before a year or so ago, I would have thought it was either aftermarket modified or just another American 80s all-show-no-go "performance" car.



It really wasn't- 276 "official" horsepower, but presumably quite a lot more given that it hit 60 in 4.7 seconds. For a Buick, in 1987...

It was the car of choice in that tv series about the american cop played by Damien Lewis, Charlie Crews.
Classic Car and driver feature on the GNX

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G6wtnmdZhE

[Hugo a Gogo]

last car I saw that I'd never heard of was this a month or two ago

Suzuki Kizashi, quite nice looking
2.4 litre, 185bhp

[Remagel2507]

Until a few weeks ago I never knew about the Nissan Pulsar(Almera) VZR N1 which had around 197bhp from a 1.6 it held the highest specific output ever for a naturally aspirated production car, at 123.125 hp/litre before the S2000 came along