Rare versions of common cars

[Fastdruid]

AppleJuice said:

AppleJuice said:

I offer an E60 550i SE manual (as seen on PH):

Fun Bus said:

Isn't that the car that was allegedly ordered as an automatic but arrived in error as a manual? The dealer ended up registering it as a demo?

<checks RE: Spotted: BMW 550i manual thread>

Will_S said:

Interestingly, SC08ZHP was a cancelled customer order after the BMW dealer (Harry Fairbairn) specced it thinking the 550i was auto only. Therefore no automatic gearbox option was ticked, and it arrived as a manual.

The customer didn't want a manual one, cancelled the order, and a lot of money was lost reducing this to a price they could find a buyer for it at.

Yes, it is.

Even with that terrible colour I would have that if it had been a Touring. You can understand why if there were only 3 sold in the UK why they dropped the manual option for the later cars. Equally however the lack of a manual option is why BMW (and a number of others) are off my possibility list for my next car.

[The Dangerous Elk]

So many "common" cars with a few extra bits, I think we all need to sleep now.

[AppleJuice]

M1C said:

I'm sure those wheels are from a 7 series. I've never seen a 5 with them.

They were an option:
Style 152
8Jx18

Also available on the E90 (Individual).

[AppleJuice]

The Dangerous Elk said:

So many "common" cars with a few extra bits, I think we all need to sleep now.

Sleep? It's only 15:45 - time for (late) afternoon tea.

[Alex]

According to HowManyLeft, so far Honda have sold 375 FK8 Civic Type Rs, and only 4 are the base model without GT pack.

[RB Will]

Don't know what the official numbers are but any petrol version of an Audi Allroad is pretty rare.

According to Autotrader for the A6 allroad there are about 225 for sale, 2 are petrol and for the A4 allroad there are about 240 or sale with 11 being petrol.

[AppleJuice]

RB Will said:

Don't know what the official numbers are but any petrol version of an Audi Allroad is pretty rare.

According to Autotrader for the A6 allroad there are about 225 for sale, 2 are petrol and for the A4 allroad there are about 240 or sale with 11 being petrol.

C5 was 2.7T and 4.2.

C6 was 4.2-only petrol-wise (IIRC):

[Wills2]

I loved my allroad although it was just the 2.7TDi, great car the ride was superb on 17" and air suspension, underrated cars IMHO.

[RB Will]

AppleJuice said:

RB Will said:

Don't know what the official numbers are but any petrol version of an Audi Allroad is pretty rare.

According to Autotrader for the A6 allroad there are about 225 for sale, 2 are petrol and for the A4 allroad there are about 240 or sale with 11 being petrol.

C5 was 2.7T and 4.2.

C6 was 4.2-only petrol-wise (IIRC):

The A4 Allroad comes with a 2.0tfsi which I thought would have made up more than 5% of sales

[Fun Bus]

AppleJuice said:

M1C said:

I'm sure those wheels are from a 7 series. I've never seen a 5 with them.

They were an option:
Style 152
8Jx18

Also available on the E90 (Individual).

Only available on an Individual specced car, regardless of range.

[Mike335i]

Agent XXX said:

PTF said:

E87 130i SE?

BMW only made about 80 of them around 2006. After that the 130i was only available as an M-sport.

I'm biased, but i like the Q-car look of them.

No no and no.

Yes, yes and yes.

[DoubleD]

Mike335i said:

Agent XXX said:

PTF said:

E87 130i SE?

BMW only made about 80 of them around 2006. After that the 130i was only available as an M-sport.

I'm biased, but i like the Q-car look of them.

No no and no.

Yes, yes and yes.

Only 80, wow when you think of all the 1 series on the road that makes this a seriously unpopular choice.

[Chris944_S2]

Switzerland is the Mecca for such cars. I’ve had a quick look on autoscout24.ch, fancy a Thema 8.32? There’s 8 for sale. Or a Passat W8? A bit rarer, only 7 of those to chose from.

among other oddities, seat made a Mk1 Leon just for the Swiss market, a supercharged version of the 2.8 cupra 4.

[Jim AK]

PTF said:

Ooh! Didn't know about that one. Wonder how many are left??

Doubt they will be listed anywhere.

They would have been created by a dealer for the radio station & would most likely be registered just as 205 GTI’s.

I worked for a Ford dealer in the 80’s & we did various ‘specials’ to shift old stock, upgraded wheels, stereos etc. Stuff we could retrofit & gave them different names but they would not have had those names on the V5, just whatever the model denomination originally was GL, Ghia etc.

[paulshears]

Prinny said:

Scala’s and GTX versions (had both) were injection, GTII and GTS were carb.

There's 3 "versions" of a Scala

Early one's are 1.8 carb & had seats that were colour coded

Then they got 1.8 injection engines (somewhere during F reg)

Then later on they did away with the colour coded seats and put "tartan ish" seats in (same seats as a GTII)

I had a Helios Blue F reg Scala with a injection engine & blue seats ... & a brown Storm & a white GT

White Scala's are the coolest because they had white lines on the rear lights lol

I think the GT (1.6 carb) disappeared late F reg then a bit of a gap til GTII (1.8 carb) came out ... maybe the GTS filled that gap??? pretty sure they were 1.8 carb

[AppleJuice]

Fun Bus said:

AppleJuice said:

M1C said:

I'm sure those wheels are from a 7 series. I've never seen a 5 with them.

They were an option:
Style 152
8Jx18

Also available on the E90 (Individual).

Only available on an Individual specced car, regardless of range.

Ah! I see - thanks!

[MorganP104]

Wot no mention of the Sierra Sapphire 2000E?

[Prinny]

AppleJuice said:

Fun Bus said:

AppleJuice said:

M1C said:

I'm sure those wheels are from a 7 series. I've never seen a 5 with them.

They were an option:
Style 152
8Jx18

Also available on the E90 (Individual).

Only available on an Individual specced car, regardless of range.

Ah! I see - thanks!

To be fair, most 3/5/6 didn’t get specced with “individual” bits, in the same way the 7 did. After all, the individual stuff ain’t cheap. It’s less of a concern on a £100k 7 than it is on a £20k 3series, obviously.

What’s interesting is that the style152 comes in a variety of sizes, both diameter, width & offset, so that it fits many models:

http://www.bmwstylewheels.com/bmw/152

So with that said, some shameless whoring of my car with the 152 wheels in 20” flavour. As a 760 (6l v12), there’s only about 160 total brought into the UK from 2002-2008, but there’s many, many more 730d...

[AppleJuice]

C6 A6 4.2 saloon and Avant

[Leveret]

Audi A8 is quite common, A8 LWB W12 quite rare, usually one or two on Autotrader, but my A8 SWB W12 sports quattro is very rare. They made a few hundred in 2004/5 as a stopgap between the old D2 S8 V8 (anyone seen the 'Ronin' car chase?) and the new D3 S8 V10 -same power, but less torque than the W12. Only about 50 right hand drive versions were sold here - I don't know how many are still on the road.
I see it's been mentioned before in this thread - just thought I'd clarify and expand on it a bit. One of the finest sports saloons of its time - utterly delightful to drive.