Cars you didn't know existed...

[northwest monkey]

blearyeyedboy said:

Hugo a Gogo said:

or your 'car' is just not long enough

Ah, I see your problem. You're confusing "car" with "not a car, but a flipping huge truck".



Teasing aside, I bet a Dodge RAM V10 is a giggle.

Not as funny as watching your neighbour try and reverse his new V10 Dodge Ram onto his drive but failing because (a) his driveway entrance isn't wide enough to reverse on at an angle and (b) the lane we live on isn't wide enough to get his almost 20' long pickup at a right angle to allow him to reverse straight back.

To be fair to the bloke, he did persist for nearly 2 hours before admitting defeat

[blearyeyedboy]

^ Go on then, I could use a laugh. What did he do after admitting defeat?

And... two hours? That's dedication to the cause!

[Alfa numeric]

Halmyre said:

soxboy said:

67Dino said:

Technically art, but Edwin Wurm’s fat cars featured on Jalopnik are certainly different...

What's under there do we reckon? Thought it may be an Alfa 164?

If so he needs a foot to the scrotum.

I think that somewhere under there is a Citroen BX feeling very sorry for itself...

[Jimmy Recard]

Wildcat45 said:

An Isuzu Trooper/Vauxhall Monterey?

I can't think of a vehicle that has carried more names than that Honda Passport!

The 'base' would be the Isuzu MU I think, but in other forms it was also Isuzu Rodeo, Opel/Vauxhall/Holden Frontera, it was even called Honda Jazz in Japan at some point, amongst many other names

[saaby93]

Alfa numeric said:

Halmyre said:

soxboy said:

67Dino said:

Technically art, but Edwin Wurm’s fat cars featured on Jalopnik are certainly different...

What's under there do we reckon? Thought it may be an Alfa 164?

If so he needs a foot to the scrotum.

I think that somewhere under there is a Citroen BX feeling very sorry for itself...

I was thinking Lancia - isnt the C pillar too thin for a BX

[Jimmy Recard]

Rear window is wrong for a BX. The trim on the quarter glass isn't in the right place

[saaby93]

Jimmy Recard said:

Rear window is wrong for a BX. The trim on the quarter glass isn't in the right place

nor a thema

[ajprice]

saaby93 said:

nor a thema

In that case it won't be a Saab 9000 either, I think they had the same doors, or very similar with different skins. The 164 had a different body in that three way.

[Downward]

Frimley111R said:

GT6 Jonsey said:

New to me, Renault Fluence anyone ?

A poor effort by Renault. No-one in the UK wants a small saloon car unless it has a premium badge and the range of this car was, iirc, very short, plus it wasn't cheap. Can't give them away now.

Im sure you have to lease the battery for life.

[Jazzy Jag]

havoc said:

QuartzDad said:

From another thread on here, thought I knew my 70s coupes - nearly bought an Opel GT as my first car - but had no idea this existed, SAAB Sonett:

That was in a Top Trumps pack when I was a kid...

IIRC MK1 Sonnets had a 2 stroke engine

[poing]

Alfa numeric said:

Halmyre said:

soxboy said:

67Dino said:

Technically art, but Edwin Wurm’s fat cars featured on Jalopnik are certainly different...

What's under there do we reckon? Thought it may be an Alfa 164?

If so he needs a foot to the scrotum.

I think that somewhere under there is a Citroen BX feeling very sorry for itself...

I'm seeing Alfa Romeo 33

[carlove]

poing said:

I'm seeing Alfa Romeo 33

I agree. The wheels look very much like Alfa wheels.

[Doofus]

The headrests and front grille are the same too.

[gothatway]

poing said:

67Dino said:

Technically art, but Edwin Wurm’s fat cars featured on Jalopnik are certainly different...

I'm seeing Alfa Romeo 33

Wheel looks good, but not the rear door shut line (or door mirror, though that's minor).

[loudlashadjuster]

gothatway said:

Wheel looks good, but not the rear door shut line (or door mirror, though that's minor).

It's almost certainly a 33 though. The pillar spacing/sizes and the radius on the windscreen look spot on too.

Thinking about the shutline, if I was making this I'd probably have a fair chuck of overlap in the door to, easier to adjust the closure so that both the (inevitably wobbly) panels line up well enough. Having a straight butted shutline would make this harder to shim/adjust.

[mholt1995]

poing said:

I always thought the Maverick was the Ford version of the Nissan Terrano, or were they both Maverick but different generations?

Ford Europe sold two "generations" of the Ford Maverick over here. I say "generations" in the sense that neither started life as a Ford Maverick.

1st generation (93-99) was a rebadged Nissan Terrano II


2nd generation (01-05) was a rebadged Mk1 Ford Escape (also sold as a Mazda Tribute and a Mercury Mariner)


After 2005, the Maverick name was dropped. As for the original cars, the Nissan Terrano now lives life as the X-Trail and the Escape as the Kuga. Obviously both of those are sold now in the UK as the OEM names.

Christ I need something better to do! I've considered a 3.0 V6 Maverick XLT (Gen 2) as it's one of those itches I've wanted to scratch (I was big into 24 when it was on and lots of those Ford SUVs made an appearance though I feel an Explorer would be too impractical over here) but my goodness they're thirsty and get some serious rust on the rear doors.

[anonymous-user]

I bought a 3.0 V6 Maverick XLT, great car, felt like a car driving it, and with a stick shifter to boot, i thought I was a yank. Only spotted the rust when i came to sell.

The engine is one of the best V6's I've owned, and upset a few diesel repmobiles to boot.

[cptsideways]

Downward said:

Frimley111R said:

GT6 Jonsey said:

New to me, Renault Fluence anyone ?

A poor effort by Renault. No-one in the UK wants a small saloon car unless it has a premium badge and the range of this car was, iirc, very short, plus it wasn't cheap. Can't give them away now.

Im sure you have to lease the battery for life.

The Renault Flatulance


If there ever was a turd of a car this is pretty definitive

[67Dino]

Downward said:

Frimley111R said:

GT6 Jonsey said:

New to me, Renault Fluence anyone ?

A poor effort by Renault. No-one in the UK wants a small saloon car unless it has a premium badge and the range of this car was, iirc, very short, plus it wasn't cheap. Can't give them away now.

Im sure you have to lease the battery for life.

Surely an electric Fluence is an E-fluence?
No wonder they didn’t sell many.

[Zad]

Maybe in France it is called an MR-2? Oh wait...