Cars you didn't know existed...

[Horsey McHorseface]

Pericoloso said:

No it was definitely a Yaris that I saw but there is an S Cargo resemblance.

Sienta? Built on Yaris chassis, IIRC.

[McGee_22]

Derventio said:

I had no idea that an E28 Touring was even a thing.



Some cars look better as an estate, some look better as a saloon. I think the E28 sits firmly in the latter camp!

Apparently, someone had a 7 Series Touring coachbuilt. I'm not sure of the E number for this one.
I think this works better aesthetically.

The E28 and E23 Tourings are all aftermarket coachbuilder constructions and possibly a few homemade examples; there were a few different E28 examples at the BMW 100 Year Old celebrations in Munich a couple of years ago.

[Jobbo]

Two UK market cars I've passed on the motorway in the last week, neither of which were known to me. I've been aware of most of the obscure Japanese market stuff in this thread already so I can only assume these are so boring they were barely featured in the motoring press here, which is why I missed their existence:

Chevrolet Orlando:


Ssangyong XLV:


I followed the XLV for quite a long time before I got close enough to read the badge. I had assumed it was some sort of recent MG until then.

[saaby93]

soxboy said:

Possibly, but it doesn't also have Marina door handles.

Is there an award for a car part that's used on the most car types?
Do Metro mirrors come second?

[Jimmy Recard]

saaby93 said:

Is there an award for a car part that's used on the most car types?
Do Metro mirrors come second?

BL/Austin Rover interior light

[Pericoloso]

Horsey McHorseface said:

Pericoloso said:

No it was definitely a Yaris that I saw but there is an S Cargo resemblance.

Sienta? Built on Yaris chassis, IIRC.

No ,it was deffo the car that ajprice found , the headlamps were completely not smoothed in ,like a Frogeye ,a tiny bit.

[AstonZagato]

Jimmy Recard said:

saaby93 said:

Is there an award for a car part that's used on the most car types?
Do Metro mirrors come second?

BL/Austin Rover interior light

Ford window switches were used in a lot of small volume cars (e.g. Aston DB7).

[TooLateForAName]

Jobbo said:

Two UK market cars I've passed on the motorway in the last week, neither of which were known to me. I've been aware of most of the obscure Japanese market stuff in this thread already so I can only assume these are so boring they were barely featured in the motoring press here, which is why I missed their existence:

Ssangyong XLV:


I followed the XLV for quite a long time before I got close enough to read the badge. I had assumed it was some sort of recent MG until then.

There are a few of those xlv things around us - all seem to be taxi/private hire so I assume there is a specialist dealer somewhere.

[Truckosaurus]

AstonZagato said:

Ford window switches were used in a lot of small volume cars (e.g. Aston DB7).

I saw something recently discussing Aston Martin's parts bin usage, when they used Ford parts none of their customers cared or even noticed as they weren't familiar with Fords but when Aston thought they were moving upmarket by using Volvo bits the customers noticed as they actually owned Volvos themselves or knew people who did...

[generationx]

AstonZagato said:

Jimmy Recard said:

saaby93 said:

Is there an award for a car part that's used on the most car types?
Do Metro mirrors come second?

BL/Austin Rover interior light

Ford window switches were used in a lot of small volume cars (e.g. Aston DB7).

Wasn’t It the Citroen CX mirror that was the go-to choice for many an Aston Martin? And the McLaren F1 of course...

[Jimmy Recard]

AstonZagato said:

Ford window switches were used in a lot of small volume cars (e.g. Aston DB7).

Good one!

I'm sure on a recent thread someone showed that there's a recent or current JLR model that used them for the seats

[soxboy]

generationx said:

Wasn’t It the Citroen CX mirror that was the go-to choice for many an Aston Martin? And the McLaren F1 of course...

Whilst the CX mirror was the go-to choice for many cars, I thought the F1 had VW Corrado mirrors.

[generationx]

Back on subject, I saw not one but two VW T-Roc convertibles on a jaunt through Belgium the other weekend. Why? I guess a rival to the open Evoque. Very slab-sided, not nice...

[ajprice]

soxboy said:

Whilst the CX mirror was the go-to choice for many cars, I thought the F1 had VW Corrado mirrors.

Looking on Google images, the XP prototype cars had the CX mirrors, the production cars had Corrado mirrors.

[P5BNij]

Fiat 600D based Record Sperimentale by Vignale....

[P5BNij]

An Austin 7 based Ashley 750 Targa Florio, a car I've definitely never heard of until I came across this for sale ad just now.... what a nice looking thing it is....

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1206918

[biggbn]

P5BNij said:

Fiat 600D based Record Sperimentale by Vignale....

I really like that An mpv coupe decades before the avantime!

[gti_dreamer]

Is this oddball, modern Suzuki new to folks on this forum too?

https://www.usedcarsni.com/search_results.php?keyw...

[Doofus]

gti_dreamer said:

Is this oddball, modern Suzuki new to folks on this forum too?

https://www.usedcarsni.com/search_results.php?keyw...

It's been on this thread so many times, I assumed everyone knew about it by now.

[HTP99]

generationx said:

Back on subject, I saw not one but two VW T-Roc convertibles on a jaunt through Belgium the other weekend. Why? I guess a rival to the open Evoque. Very slab-sided, not nice...

I've seen a few of these (UK) recently, proof that any old turd will sell with the "correct" badge!