Cars you didn't know existed...

[Horsey McHorseface]

67Dino said:

Looks like a G-wagen that’s had plastic surgery

It’s what Shmee150 would have looked like had he spent his family trust fund on plastic surgery, rather than cars.

[Jimmy Recard]

jamiebae said:

We also get a V8 diesel, ML400, which looks like fun but can generate utterly terrifying bills if (when) it goes wrong. I think a few of them end up stripped to provide replacement lumps for the G400.

Is there also an E400 CDI? I'm sure I've seen a few around Europe

[Halmyre]

67Dino said:

V10 SPM said:

Thai Rung Union Car Transformer II

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Looks like a G-wagen that’s had plastic surgery

Holy fk, please tell me that's bad CGI? Or a waxwork?

[jamiebae]

Jimmy Recard said:

jamiebae said:

We also get a V8 diesel, ML400, which looks like fun but can generate utterly terrifying bills if (when) it goes wrong. I think a few of them end up stripped to provide replacement lumps for the G400.

Is there also an E400 CDI? I'm sure I've seen a few around Europe

www.autoscout24.ch/5240967


It would appear so, a 260ps 4.0 V8 diesel E Class, I bet the torque is pretty impressive!

[Ares]

Chris944_S2 said:

Speaking of 4 wheel drive Mercs I'd never heard of while in the UK, on the continent they got a 1st gen ML500. I believe ours stopped at ML430 before the AMG ones

ML430 1st gen pre-facelift. ML500 1st gen post-facelift. (I had one )

[Ares]

Jimmy Recard said:

jamiebae said:

We also get a V8 diesel, ML400, which looks like fun but can generate utterly terrifying bills if (when) it goes wrong. I think a few of them end up stripped to provide replacement lumps for the G400.

Is there also an E400 CDI? I'm sure I've seen a few around Europe

We had the ML420 diesel, V8. Rare though.

[shakotan]

Fast Bug said:

Somebody on here worked at the dealer that converted them back in the day from memory

They were converted (for the European market at least) by a company called R&R Kupfer in Germany.

[FIREBIRDC9]

shakotan said:

They were converted (for the European market at least) by a company called R&R Kupfer in Germany.

That is dreadful......

[Stridey]

Naomi Cambell did the bodywork mods.

...funnily enough I actually did the retouching on the ‘Supermodels’ campaign.

[Jimmy Recard]

I didn't know that Vauxhall had Royal Warrants with the Queen, Prince of Wales and Queen Mother

I bet the Queen Mother had an Astra GTE 16V

Edited by Jimmy Recard on Monday 20th November 19:59

[RATATTAK]

Stridey said:

...funnily enough I actually did the retouching on the ‘Supermodels’ campaign.

You're a very lucky boy !!!

[anonymous-user]

wildcat45 said:

There was a time 25-30 years ago where almost every mainstream hatchback maker offered a cabrio of some sort.

What changed?

People came to their senses and finally realised that the weather in this country is terrible 99% of the time, thus rendering a cabrio almost completely pointless.

If you do have a Cabrio, you become 'that guy' who spends his entrire ownership of the car hoping desperately for that one day a year when it isn't 14c and overcast, meaning he can put the top down and not receive funny looks from other motorists.

[talksthetorque]

Jimmy Recard said:

I didn't know that Vauxhall had Royal Warrants with the Queen, Prince of Wales and Queen Mother

I bet the Queen Mother had an Astra GTE 16V

Edited by Jimmy Recard on Monday 20th November 19:59

Royal protection Omegas/Senators/Carltons?

Couple of Astramaxes and a Frontera for one's estates?

Vauxhall Belmont for the Gin deliveries from Thresher - biggest boot you can't pap..

[Jimmy Recard]

talksthetorque said:

Royal protection Omegas/Senators/Carltons?

Couple of Astramaxes and a Frontera for one's estates?

Vauxhall Belmont for the Gin deliveries from Thresher - biggest boot you can't pap..

I prefer to think that Charles knocks around in a Nova GSI

The Queen probably has a Monaro VXR

[AstonZagato]

Stridey said:

...funnily enough I actually did the retouching on the ‘Supermodels’ campaign.

I thought that was what Harvey Weinstein is accused of doing? Allegedly.

[Dapster]

Jimmy Recard said:

I didn't know that Vauxhall had Royal Warrants with the Queen, Prince of Wales and Queen Mother

I bet the Queen Mother had an Astra GTE 16V

The Astra was surely too racy. I picture her in a shabby metallic brown 1982 Cavalier in "considerably richer than yaw" CD spec, and an ashtray overflowing with Lambert and Butler fag ends.

[Dapster]

jamiebae said:

www.autoscout24.ch/5240967


It would appear so, a 260ps 4.0 V8 diesel E Class, I bet the torque is pretty impressive!

At the other end of the scale, a 4 cyl 2l S Class (not in the UK) with cloth seats!

Edited by Dapster on Monday 20th November 23:40

[shakotan]

FIREBIRDC9 said:

shakotan said:

They were converted (for the European market at least) by a company called R&R Kupfer in Germany.

That is dreadful......

Friend of mine just bought one in GSi-spec, came with another Corsa B in full working order. Price was £395 for the pair.

[HTP99]

That Corsa convertible is so st, it's kinda cool, much like the Cavalier convertible!

[D-Angle]

What a pointless conversion. The only time you'd feel like you were in an open-top car is when it rains.