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Cars you didn't know existed...

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CanAm

9,200 posts

272 months

Sunday 20th January 2019
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Doofus said:
Oh come on!

It's got two rear view mirrors, two blokes in yellow shirts sat beside it, and a very wobbly roof.
And a steering wheel just inside the rear window!

BFleming

3,605 posts

143 months

Sunday 20th January 2019
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CanAm said:
Doofus said:
Oh come on!

It's got two rear view mirrors, two blokes in yellow shirts sat beside it, and a very wobbly roof.
And a steering wheel just inside the rear window!
Not forgetting the split level deshboard jester

gothatway

5,783 posts

170 months

Sunday 20th January 2019
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Doofus said:
Oh come on!

It's got two rear view mirrors, two blokes in yellow shirts sat beside it, and a very wobbly roof.
Do I get a choice of colours, parrot-wise ?

D-Angle

4,467 posts

242 months

Sunday 20th January 2019
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gothatway said:
Doofus said:
Oh come on!

It's got two rear view mirrors, two blokes in yellow shirts sat beside it, and a very wobbly roof.
Do I get a choice of colours, parrot-wise ?
You can have any colour you want in Photoshop, which is what he is saying was used to create this.

I missed it as well until I realised where the steering wheel was.

Halmyre

11,193 posts

139 months

Monday 21st January 2019
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Doofus said:
gothatway said:
Also ...

... hence his nickname.
Fat fk Carlsson?
Show some respect! Erik Carlsson, legend. When asked why he drove flat out into blind bends and summits he replied "the road must go somewhere". Did things with piddly two-stroke 3 cylinder Saabs that defied belief.

Doofus

25,810 posts

173 months

Monday 21st January 2019
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Halmyre said:
Show some respect!
Why? Is he watching?

Halmyre said:
Erik Carlsson, legend.
This may blow your mind, but he was actually real.

hyphen

26,262 posts

90 months

Monday 21st January 2019
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slk 32 said:
Asterix said:
Halmyre said:
Nissan Cima, same colour as this one so it might even be the same one. It's not even on 'how many left', unless it's included under 'Nissan Infiniti', which is what it was sold as in some markets.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Cima
That rear almost looks Bristolesque.
From the c pillar back it looks like the late '90's Bentley continental coupe
Looks the Cima name was revived as this is for sale on eBay




Same seller also has a V6 Nissan Stagea, hadn't heard of that neither





Edited by hyphen on Monday 21st January 22:43

Blown2CV

28,808 posts

203 months

Monday 21st January 2019
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hyphen said:
slk 32 said:
Asterix said:
Halmyre said:
Nissan Cima, same colour as this one so it might even be the same one. It's not even on 'how many left', unless it's included under 'Nissan Infiniti', which is what it was sold as in some markets.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Cima
That rear almost looks Bristolesque.
From the c pillar back it looks like the late '90's Bentley continental coupe
Looks the Cima name was revived as this is for sale on eBay




Same seller also has a V6 Nissan Stagea, hadn't heard of that neither





Edited by hyphen on Monday 21st January 22:43
Such A beautiful engine bay. They don’t make them like that any more.

C350

1,834 posts

64 months

Tuesday 22nd January 2019
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Stagea was used for R34 Skyline estate conversions. One of them already has the same engine

https://youtu.be/1iTlgdDDh5A

Edited by C350 on Tuesday 22 January 01:50

GravelBen

15,685 posts

230 months

Tuesday 22nd January 2019
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C350 said:
Stagea was used for R34 Skyline estate conversions. One of them already has the same engine

https://youtu.be/1iTlgdDDh5A
The conversions are generally just cosmetic, people swapping an R34 nose onto a Stagea.

The previous gen Stagea to the V6 one shown above [ETA: the shape in that vid] had most of the same drivetrain options as Skylines of the time - RB20/RB25 NA or turbo with Rwd or ATTESSA AWD. Basically a Skyline drivetrain in a Laurel-derived wagon chassis. Practically all automatic, factory manuals might exist but I don't think I've ever seen one.

Nice enough to drive but big heavy thirsty things, my dad's 2.5NA AWD Stagea was a lot thirstier than my Legacy GTB.

The only RB26 Stageas were Autech semi-factory tuner cars though which are rare as hens teeth and big $$$

Edited by GravelBen on Tuesday 22 January 02:23

shakotan

10,695 posts

196 months

Tuesday 22nd January 2019
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hyphen said:
slk 32 said:
Asterix said:
Halmyre said:
Nissan Cima, same colour as this one so it might even be the same one. It's not even on 'how many left', unless it's included under 'Nissan Infiniti', which is what it was sold as in some markets.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Cima
That rear almost looks Bristolesque.
From the c pillar back it looks like the late '90's Bentley continental coupe
Looks the Cima name was revived as this is for sale on eBay




Same seller also has a V6 Nissan Stagea, hadn't heard of that neither





Edited by hyphen on Monday 21st January 22:43
It was never discontinued, The Nissan Cima has been around since since 1991 with the Y31 model.



and continued through 5 different generation (the first one you quoted is a 2nd Gen Y32, and the eBay one is a 4th Gen F50.

Latest model is a Y51.



TommoAE86

2,666 posts

127 months

Wednesday 23rd January 2019
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cloud9 all these large Japanese machines, mine from Toyota is almost ready couple of weeks tops can't wait!

P5BNij

15,875 posts

106 months

Wednesday 23rd January 2019
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D-Angle said:
gothatway said:
Doofus said:
Oh come on!

It's got two rear view mirrors, two blokes in yellow shirts sat beside it, and a very wobbly roof.
Do I get a choice of colours, parrot-wise ?
You can have any colour you want in Photoshop, which is what he is saying was used to create this.

I missed it as well until I realised where the steering wheel was.
I missed it completely, no excuse really is there.... funny thing is I passed my railway medical this morning, eyesight marked down as 'A1'...!

va1o

16,032 posts

207 months

Wednesday 23rd January 2019
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I'd forgot the Citroën C-Zero existed until I saw one today! It's their clone of the Mitsubishi i-MiEV. Also didn't realise both are apparently still for sale!

Can only find one Used C-Zero on Autotrader so definitely isn't a big seller https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...


ajprice

27,473 posts

196 months

Wednesday 23rd January 2019
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va1o, there's also the Peugeot Ion, another rebadge of the Mitsubishi, still on sale. [ https://www.peugeot.co.uk/showroom/ion/5-door/


Doofus

25,810 posts

173 months

Wednesday 23rd January 2019
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P5BNij said:
D-Angle said:
gothatway said:
Doofus said:
Oh come on!

It's got two rear view mirrors, two blokes in yellow shirts sat beside it, and a very wobbly roof.
Do I get a choice of colours, parrot-wise ?
You can have any colour you want in Photoshop, which is what he is saying was used to create this.

I missed it as well until I realised where the steering wheel was.
I missed it completely, no excuse really is there.... funny thing is I passed my railway medical this morning, eyesight marked down as 'A1'...!
I am disappoint. nono

smile

va1o

16,032 posts

207 months

Wednesday 23rd January 2019
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ajprice said:
va1o, there's also the Peugeot Ion, another rebadge of the Mitsubishi, still on sale. [ https://www.peugeot.co.uk/showroom/ion/5-door/
Cant believe they’ve lasted so long yet gone so un-noticed! Maybe EV technology hasn’t moved on that much then...

BFleming

3,605 posts

143 months

Wednesday 23rd January 2019
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P5BNij said:
I missed it completely, no excuse really is there.... funny thing is I passed my railway medical this morning, eyesight marked down as 'A1'...!
I don't miss having those PTS medicals, or being randomly tested first thing in the morning!

Matt-il77s

330 posts

90 months

Wednesday 23rd January 2019
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va1o said:
I'd forgot the Citroën C-Zero existed until I saw one today! It's their clone of the Mitsubishi i-MiEV. Also didn't realise both are apparently still for sale!

Can only find one Used C-Zero on Autotrader so definitely isn't a big seller https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

I didn't know about this either until I saw it on Autoste, better pictures and details here; http://autoste.com/topic/31958-imiev-the-first-e...

RJG46

980 posts

68 months

Wednesday 23rd January 2019
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First generation, 1950s Nissan Patrol.


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