Cars you didn't know existed...

[Dapster]

Name this car for an internet pint...

[SimonTheSailor]

Lancia Plastique ?

[anonymous-user]

JD66 said:

Hyundai genesis. Saw one today and didnt realise they existed. Had a look and a 3.8 litre luxury car with Hyundai depreciation had a certain appeal. Hopefully theyll be dirt cheap in a few years and I might be tempted as I seem to have a thing for rare obsure luxo barges with huge depreciation.

Edited by anonymous-user on Monday 19th February 00:42

Edited by anonymous-user on Monday 19th February 00:43

Yes, the pound shop Maybach. I'd buy one too, but not at the current prices..got a lot of 'Phaeton Depreciation' to go before I enter..

[RATATTAK]

Dapster said:

Name this car for an internet pint...

Lancia

[SimonTheSailor]

FBS Census V6 Quadcam - sounds great doesn't it ?

[Dapster]

RATATTAK said:

Lancia

The Saab Lancia 600 GLE no less. New one on me. Can't see a single bit of Saabism on it at all.

[Brinyan]

Dapster said:

Name this car for an internet pint...

Lancia Y10

[Dapster]

Brinyan said:

Lancia Y10

No it's the Saab Lancia above!

[Torcars]

AppleJuice said:

Ford Territory (Aus) used the 2.7 AJD-V6 (190 PS):

Its hard to believe that isn't related in some way to Land Rover. Googling suggests it isn't.

I could see something like that being a decent seller in the UK and if they did LHD the rest of the EU.

[Torcars]

dugt said:

To be really pedantic the picture of the car in the road is a GTM Rossa, which has a mini engine
The gtm k3 has a k series engine

I had a Rossa as my first car
Cheap insurance
Reliable?

Basically a plastic MGF that you made your self? I guess there's more to it than that..

[SimonTheSailor]

The GTM Libra is a well respected car - think a GRP monocoque ?

Edited by SimonTheSailor on Tuesday 20th February 06:07

[caziques]

Tony Starks said:

And I'll add another random japanese car

Have one of those.

Also two of these.

[Suicide77]

Some South American's if they haven't been posted before...

[Tony Starks]

cj2013 said:

Diahatsu Charade DeTomaso.


Shame about the wheels


I'll add one via a vague link to this...

Thats what I hoped it was lol, i do remember seeing a Daihatsu De Tomaso for sale in the late 90s at the Southampton Jeep/Chrysler dealer on Winchester Road. The good thing with NZ is it throws up some randon jap goodness from time to time. Like Nissan RB powered Commodores.

[Rostfritt]

Big Raff said:

No ideas...i would want to say Suzuki or similar, but yeah...very odd car

Some friends of mine have one of those, they call it Wilma. It is a Toyota WiLL. According to Wikipedia it is some sort of youth orientated lifestyle brand that was used by different Japanese companies from 1999-2004. You see a lot of odd grey imports here in NZ. The most common is the Tiida:



Which having driven 900km in one, I can confirm it is a car. There is literally nothing more to say about it.

In the world of bizarre names though is this:



I know someone with one, who told me it was a 'Toyota Racist'.

[Rostfritt]

AppleJuice said:

Classic Range Rover 4.2 (4.3):

Apparently the V8 used the crankshaft castings from the 'Iceberg' Rover V8 turbodiesel project.

Wonder why the V8 wasn't used in the P38A?

I think that car lives near my parents house.

[Lotus Elan +2]

I saw one of these Tiida's in silver yesterday in Connahs Quay.

Edited by Lotus Elan +2 on Tuesday 20th February 07:50

[soxboy]

Lotus Elan +2 said:

I saw one of these Tiida's in silver yesterday in Connahs Quay.

Edited by Lotus Elan +2 on Tuesday 20th February 07:50

There’s one in my village, they were never officially imported into the UK but were imported into Ireland. Arnold Clarke brought in a load to Scotland.

[simonrockman]

Dapster said:

The Saab Lancia 600 GLE no less. New one on me. Can't see a single bit of Saabism on it at all.

Maybe they moved the ignition key down to by the gear stick. ISTR there was an Audi based on the Delta. I had a 1600.

[Usget]

5lab said:

https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/oldsmobile-to...

Going back a few pages but wanted to say thanks for posting this genuinely brilliant bit of writing!