Rare versions of common cars

[p1stonhead]

I had no idea BMW made a (current) 1 series saloon. Only in china mind but still.

[Decky_Q]

cologne2792 said:

Fiesta RS 1800

Mainstream car that sold only 493 units.

I had one as my first car went to see a Pug 406 that turned out to be an ex taxi, and the trader had it sitting on the lot. My ex had a standard 1.1 version that I liked so bought it for £700. Alas it was max power days and I modified it a lot so it had one owner after me and went to the scrap yard. I didn't realise so few were sold.

[lord trumpton]

Dannbodge said:

AlmostUseful said:

Being as this is Pistonheads, where pedantry matters... you won’t find an e92 335i estate anywhere, ever.
E92 is the coupe, E90 is the saloon and E91 is the estate.

Phew.

I was about to say that

Rawwr said:

The 320Si is pretty rare and I quite like the idea of it

They are lovely. Shame the engine is terrible.

E90 335i and E91 335i are both rare, especially in facelift (LCi ) form.

I always see figures floating of only 15 manual E91 335i LCis and around 50 of the E90.

I looked into these a good few years back as I saw it as a spiritual successor to the E30 318is

Reading up then ownership is a world of pain with engine liners/piston rings failing.

[Boobonman]

My missus has a manual E91 330i sport. According to the beards in the BMW sub forum there are fewer of these on the road than E46 M3 CSL’s!

[Jim AK]

Audi A8 W12.

40 on road & 1 SORN.

[Hyde]

MINI Clubman JCW (R55 for the beardy types)
Approx 200 sold in the UK between late 2009 and 2014

[classicyanktanks]

p1stonhead said:

I had no idea BMW made a (current) 1 series saloon. Only in china mind but still.

Ouch my eyes !

[sonnenschein3000]

p1stonhead said:

I had no idea BMW made a (current) 1 series saloon. Only in china mind but still.

What's the actual point of this? If you wanted a saloon, surely a 3 series makes more sense?

[tomic]

Riley Blue said:

tomic said:

Golf Country

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C948035

Was it ever sold in the UK?

No - I lived in Germany for a few years in the late 1990's though and I only ever saw one there.

[p1stonhead]

sonnenschein3000 said:

p1stonhead said:

I had no idea BMW made a (current) 1 series saloon. Only in china mind but still.

What's the actual point of this? If you wanted a saloon, surely a 3 series makes more sense?

A3 saloon is quite common I guess there is a market.

An M140i saloon could be a great little thing actually

Edited by p1stonhead on Wednesday 17th January 18:38

[csd19]

Another one talking about my own car, but the 2.8T Elite Auto Vectra is showing as 143 taxed, 7 SORN on howmanyleft at the moment.

And 7 for sale on AT out of the 609 currently listed.

[lee_erm]

MK2 Scirocco GTS. More of a trim level than anything else, rare nevertheless.

These were rare old girls too!

Edited by lee_erm on Wednesday 17th January 18:40

[Toyoda]

The mk2 Yaris SR 1.8. It was an unremarkable engine, quite flat and overall no better performance than the earlier t sport. Had a relatively nice bodykit on it though. Disappeared after a couple of years on sale and a rare sight on the roads.

Oh, and the saab 9-3 turbo x.

[Willy Nilly]

Jim AK said:

Audi A8 W12.

40 on road & 1 SORN.

A friend of mine had an A8L W12. Big car! It was on the Barge Thread after he traded it in years ago.

[vsonix]

Is that 'howmanyleft' site really accurate at all? I seem to remember it being quite hit & miss last time I looked it at it, with lots of random non-existent models (mostly typos) and vastly underestimating numbers of fairly common stuff.

[legless]

MK2 VW Golf CityStromer. Only 2 ever sold in the UK, and they were the only 2 ever built in RHD.

Basically an electric MK2 Golf.

[DoubleD]

You could also call this thread

unpopular versions of common cars

[Harrison-91xcg]

I'm like minded

Audi A6 3.0 TFSI - With just a MRC tune and pulley you can see 450/460
Audi A6 4.2 FSI - Same performance as b6/b7 S4 with normal car looks
BMW 550i/650i
Phaeton W12
Passat R36 (as already mentioned)
Insignia 2.0T 4x4
Alfa 159 3.2 V6
Jag S Type R
Jag XF SV8

[Boobonman]

p1stonhead said:

sonnenschein3000 said:

p1stonhead said:

I had no idea BMW made a (current) 1 series saloon. Only in china mind but still.

What's the actual point of this? If you wanted a saloon, surely a 3 series makes more sense?

A3 saloon is quite common I guess there is a market.

An M140i saloon could be a great little thing actually

Edited by p1stonhead on Wednesday 17th January 18:38

Surely an M140i saloon is just an M240i?

[DoubleD]

The 2 series has less doors