More cars you didn't know existed...

[Doofus]

biggbn said:

It is strange the way a saloon version was essential fpr a long time if a car was to sell well in the UK. VW Derby and Jetta/Ventnor, Vauxhall Belmont, Ford Orion and booted Focus, Monday etc.

I was trying to work out this gibberish when I realised you'd probably been attacked by autocorrect.

VW Ventnor = Vento?
Monday = Mondeo?

[FA57REN]

COM31E said:

Subaru Traviq, anyone?

Further reading: built in the GM factory in Thailand and sold in competition with German-built Zafiras sold in Japan by Yanase. No boxer engine, no AWD and its length made it subject to additional sales taxes. Bizarre.


Good find! Obscure and pointless Top Trump

[biggbn]

Doofus said:

biggbn said:

It is strange the way a saloon version was essential fpr a long time if a car was to sell well in the UK. VW Derby and Jetta/Ventnor, Vauxhall Belmont, Ford Orion and booted Focus, Monday etc.

I was trying to work out this gibberish when I realised you'd probably been attacked by autocorrect.

VW Ventnor = Vento?
Monday = Mondeo?

Oh christ yes, lesson there, proof read!!

[Doofus]

biggbn said:

Oh christ yes, lesson there, proof read!!

[blue_haddock]

Mildlyinterestd said:

Nissan Tiida, entirely new to me.

Never intended for the UK, Arnold Clark bought a load from Ireland and punted them out dirt cheap.

[BarbaricAvatar]

Dodge Omni O24.



Take a Simca Horizon, remove the practicality and make it look even more st.
Apparently people were stupid enough to buy this.

[67Dino]

BarbaricAvatar said:

Dodge Omni O24.



Take a Simca Horizon, remove the practicality and make it look even more st.
Apparently people were stupid enough to buy this.

Thought I recognised that headlamp. Excuse me, seem to have got something in my eye..

[sean ie3]

How about the VW Derby, a Polo with a boot. I have no photo, it looks like a Polo with a boot. 😂

[Doofus]

sean ie3 said:

How about the VW Derby, a Polo with a boot. I have no photo, it looks like a Polo with a boot. ??

Anyone who didn't know that existed would have found out about it at around midday today, if they'd read at least some of this page.

[sean ie3]

Noted.

[biggbn]

Doofus said:

sean ie3 said:

How about the VW Derby, a Polo with a boot. I have no photo, it looks like a Polo with a boot. ??

Anyone who didn't know that existed would have found out about it at around midday today, if they'd read at least some of this page.

I used to love finding Derbys for sale, usually low mileage and owned by relatively wealthy older people who still had an emotional attachment to a saloon, serviced every year by VW and kept in a garage, worth absolutely nothing but made a great used buy, particularly if someone wad looking for a particularly sensible car..

[soxboy]

biggbn said:

Doofus said:

sean ie3 said:

How about the VW Derby, a Polo with a boot. I have no photo, it looks like a Polo with a boot. ??

Anyone who didn't know that existed would have found out about it at around midday today, if they'd read at least some of this page.

I used to love finding Derbys for sale, usually low mileage and owned by relatively wealthy older people who still had an emotional attachment to a saloon, serviced every year by VW and kept in a garage, worth absolutely nothing but made a great used buy, particularly if someone wad looking for a particularly sensible car..

Followed by 3” cut out of the springs, cotton reel wheels, roof rack, sanded bonnet, pressed steel German font plates and sticker bomb.

[Every day a journey]

Looked a tad like a scaled up Lynx Eventer really. Quite odd looking

[NomduJour]

One of the Chris Humberstone cars, built for Hatfields in Sheffield.

[caziques]

Every day a journey said:

Looked a tad like a scaled up Lynx Eventer really. Quite odd looking

and how is st No Good Barratt doing these days? I haven't seen him since the last century.

[Every day a journey]

caziques said:

and how is st No Good Barratt doing these days? I haven't seen him since the last century.

No idea. I understand they were sponsoring the event at Brooklands.

[Rostfritt]

Mildlyinterestd said:

Nissan Tiida, entirely new to me.

I rented one in New Zealand and came to the conclusion that they were some sort of exercise in making the most bland but functional car possible. I can imagine a government department approached Nissan and gave them that brief and a very large order. All of them I saw were silver, all automatic, same 1.5l petrol engine, cloth seats, electric windows, air con and the same wheels. Might have been JDM only to start with but I believe they are now in a few markets on a newer design. A car for someone with no interest in cars.

The same engine went in the Cube and that put me off buying one.

[SpeckledJim]

Rostfritt said:

Mildlyinterestd said:

Nissan Tiida, entirely new to me.

I rented one in New Zealand and came to the conclusion that they were some sort of exercise in making the most bland but functional car possible. I can imagine a government department approached Nissan and gave them that brief and a very large order. All of them I saw were silver, all automatic, same 1.5l petrol engine, cloth seats, electric windows, air con and the same wheels. Might have been JDM only to start with but I believe they are now in a few markets on a newer design. A car for someone with no interest in cars.

The same engine went in the Cube and that put me off buying one.

A Tiida provided the rolling fun on our honeymoon for a couple of weeks in South Africa. Harmless, blameless and charmless.

Good fun on the dusty unmetalled roads in the middle of nowhere, but then absolutely anything would be.

[Triumph Man]

SpeckledJim said:

Rostfritt said:

Mildlyinterestd said:

Nissan Tiida, entirely new to me.

I rented one in New Zealand and came to the conclusion that they were some sort of exercise in making the most bland but functional car possible. I can imagine a government department approached Nissan and gave them that brief and a very large order. All of them I saw were silver, all automatic, same 1.5l petrol engine, cloth seats, electric windows, air con and the same wheels. Might have been JDM only to start with but I believe they are now in a few markets on a newer design. A car for someone with no interest in cars.

The same engine went in the Cube and that put me off buying one.

A Tiida provided the rolling fun on our honeymoon for a couple of weeks in South Africa. Harmless, blameless and charmless.

Good fun on the dusty unmetalled roads in the middle of nowhere, but then absolutely anything would be.

How do you pronounce it? Tee-da? Tilda? Tye-da?

[Hobbes003]

seefarr said:

I found a classic car shop in Delft that will rent you "Old Timers" for a day. They had a DAF 66 which was a cute little thing I'd never heard of before. Sadly they have a CVT gearbox for some reason.

DAF invented the CVT. They named it Variomatic, their version uses 2 rubber belts. The Variomatic replaces the differential.


This was functional but limited in power (the rubber belts had to be replaced regularly). They kept working on the Variomatic, developing the steel-belt CVT we still know today.

The DAF 66 in your picture is a 'Marathon' coupe. The 66 was the last car DAF built before they were bought by Volvo (which kept the 66 in production for a few more years as Volvo 66)