Cars you didn't know existed...

Cars you didn't know existed...

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BFleming

3,589 posts

142 months

Tuesday 11th February 2020
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talksthetorque said:
Anyone else think


as well as

I thought one of those things. It was not the Pug. laugh

RicksAlfas

13,354 posts

243 months

Tuesday 11th February 2020
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talksthetorque said:
Anyone else think
Nope. tongue out

John Locke

1,142 posts

51 months

Tuesday 11th February 2020
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talksthetorque said:
Anyone else think


as well as

The red thing didn't even cross my mind.

banghead

generationx

6,641 posts

104 months

Tuesday 11th February 2020
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RicksAlfas said:
talksthetorque said:
Anyone else think
Nope. tongue out
Not for a single second.

BarbaricAvatar

1,416 posts

147 months

Sunday 16th February 2020
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Automotive misery by the looks of it:



Tofas Dogan.

Based on a Fiat 131 (which went out of production in 1984), the Dogan was produced until 2002 in Turkey. Dogan means Falcon apparently, the estate version was called Kartal (eagle). I don't look at this car and immediately think of flying; unless it's off a cliff. For the first time in my life; i'd rather have a Seat Malaga.

underwhelmist

1,852 posts

133 months

Monday 17th February 2020
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phil y said:
Replaced the Prairie according to Wikipedia, which is a car I’d completely forgotten existed.

Did these have suicide doors?

unsprung

5,467 posts

123 months

Monday 17th February 2020
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RicksAlfas said:
I followed a Hyundai Genesis 3.8 this morning. It was a big old bus but looked smart in a Lexus style. Didn't know they were sold here.

Genesis have spun off as a distinct luxury division with their own dealership network (at least in the US). The example in your photo is now the mid-sized car in their saloon range and is called the G80. Larger still is the G90 which can be loosely understood as their S Class or 7 Series.

Of greatest interest, imo, is the smallest saloon, the G70, which can be spec'd a number of ways, including with a 3.3-litre twin-turbo V6.

article here
https://www.autoblog.com/2019/01/10/2019-genesis-g...


below: the Genesis G70





Pericoloso

44,044 posts

162 months

Monday 17th February 2020
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BarbaricAvatar said:
Automotive misery by the looks of it:



Tofas Dogan.

Based on a Fiat 131 (which went out of production in 1984), the Dogan was produced until 2002 in Turkey. Dogan means Falcon apparently, the estate version was called Kartal (eagle). I don't look at this car and immediately think of flying; unless it's off a cliff. For the first time in my life; i'd rather have a Seat Malaga.
Looks like they used bits of a Tipo to at least try and look a little more up to date.

Down and out

2,700 posts

63 months

Monday 17th February 2020
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talksthetorque said:
Steamer said:
oooo where have I seen that before?.. It was as a child.. not TopTrumps, but possibly a popular 80's supercar book.

Didn't know it was the under pinnings of a 308 though!! Madness
Anyone else think


as well as

Thought it was one of these.

Blown2CV

28,695 posts

202 months

Monday 17th February 2020
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underwhelmist said:
phil y said:
Replaced the Prairie according to Wikipedia, which is a car I’d completely forgotten existed.

Did these have suicide doors?
slidey doors. They were a proto people carrier before this was really a thing.

eldar

21,614 posts

195 months

Monday 17th February 2020
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unsprung said:
Genesis have spun off as a distinct luxury division with their own dealership network (at least in the US). The example in your photo is now the mid-sized car in their saloon range and is called the G80. Larger still is the G90 which can be loosely understood as their S Class or 7 Series.

Of greatest interest, imo, is the smallest saloon, the G70, which can be spec'd a number of ways, including with a 3.3-litre twin-turbo V6.

article here
https://www.autoblog.com/2019/01/10/2019-genesis-g...


below: the Genesis G70
A rebadged Kia stinger?

fieldmau5

180 posts

167 months

Tuesday 18th February 2020
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eldar said:
A rebadged Kia stinger?
It looks nothing like a Kia Stinger

HTP99

22,441 posts

139 months

Tuesday 18th February 2020
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fieldmau5 said:
eldar said:
A rebadged Kia stinger?
It looks nothing like a Kia Stinger
Same designer though!


blue_haddock

3,140 posts

66 months

Tuesday 18th February 2020
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Down and out said:
Thought it was one of these.
My first car was that type ibiza but mine was the 903cc designer model whereas that is the sport line version!

E814UWM looks to be long gone as its never had a digital mot. I haven't seen one of this type in the UK for many years but did see one in Spain a couple of years ago.



Edited by blue_haddock on Tuesday 18th February 14:55

anonymous-user

53 months

Tuesday 18th February 2020
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HTP99 said:
fieldmau5 said:
eldar said:
A rebadged Kia stinger?
It looks nothing like a Kia Stinger
Same designer though!
Under the skin it probably shares a lot with the Stinger, Hyundai and Kia appear to have a lot of parallel models

Big Purple Dinosaur

20 posts

50 months

Tuesday 18th February 2020
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phil y said:
Replaced the Prairie according to Wikipedia, which is a car I’d completely forgotten existed.

Jesus that's a blast from the past - used to get driven to school in one of these - part of a liftshare with a family that I couldn't stand - was utterly embarrassed to emerge from the sliding doors every morning. The Dad never went above 50mph, wore leather driving gloves in all temperatures and forced us to listen to Radio 4...

It was worse than being taken to school by the other parent in the liftshare group - he was a local butcher and the boot of his Renault estate was used for carting the meat around - always covered in sawdust and smelt strongly of raw meat...

At least my Mum had a chocolate brown Triumph Toledo which used to shake itself to pieces going downhill at over 50mph, we'd all sit in the back shouting "She cannae take any more Jim" a la Scotty in Star Trek at my Mum...

Pothole

34,367 posts

281 months

Tuesday 18th February 2020
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underwhelmist said:
Did these have suicide doors?
Sliders, surely?

soxboy

6,060 posts

218 months

Tuesday 18th February 2020
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Pothole said:
underwhelmist said:
Did these have suicide doors?
Sliders, surely?
Indeed, and no B-pillars too.

JxJ Jr.

652 posts

69 months

Tuesday 18th February 2020
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Blown2CV said:
underwhelmist said:
phil y said:
Replaced the Prairie according to Wikipedia, which is a car I’d completely forgotten existed.

Did these have suicide doors?
They were a proto people carrier before this was really a thing.
Huh? amongst this and the Toyota Space Cruiser, Renault Espace, Dodge Caravan/Plymouth Voyager and Mitsubishi Space Wagon contemporaries, they were very much a thing back then.

mintybiscuit

2,811 posts

144 months

Tuesday 18th February 2020
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JxJ Jr. said:
Huh? amongst this and the Toyota Space Cruiser, Renault Espace, Dodge Caravan/Plymouth Voyager and Mitsubishi Space Wagon contemporaries, they were very much a thing back then.
Proto means basic or primitive wink

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