Confirmed UK Dodocars - any fully extinct? UK sold

[Hugh Jarse]

Confirmed UK Dodocars - any fully extinct? Must be originally UK sold I mean.
Always liked these Mitsubishi Sapporo's........ cant believe many are left.

[lukeharding]

There is one for auction next weekend, as it happens!

https://www.historics.co.uk/buying/auctions/2021-0...

[imagineifyeswill]

I have to agree with you, I always thought the Sapporo was a smart car but I think I've only ever seen 3 of them
They weren't plentiful when a current model so must be very scarce now. For some reason Mitsubishi has never been a big seller in the car market in the UK and I imagine that's why their pulling out now.

There heritage collection is up for sale just now and In think there is one Sapporo in it

[M4cruiser]

Dacia Denem

[Yertis]

imagineifyeswill said:

For some reason Mitsubishi has never been a big seller in the car market in the UK and I imagine that's why their pulling out now.

So long and thanks for all the Lancers. And the Starions.

[aaron_2000]

There's a few trim levels of 405 that are completely extinct

[skwdenyer]

JPvanRossem said:

The Lonsdale YD41

Good call. It is only a few years that I finally threw out a launch brochure for that I picked up at the NEC motor show.

[Keep it stiff]

I think we have done a thread like this before as I recall suggesting the Talbot Matra Rancho & same branded Chrysler.

[MadCaptainJack]

Here's an opportunity to do a crossover with the What happened to genuinely posh cars and their targets? topic.

[Johnspex]

MadCaptainJack said:

Here's an opportunity to do a crossover with the What happened to genuinely posh cars and their targets? topic.

Is that an advert for a Rancho? They didn't do the car's image any good with that dipstick on the right . He looks like someone you would stay a long way away from if he had a shotgun.

[Yertis]

Johnspex said:

MadCaptainJack said:

Here's an opportunity to do a crossover with the What happened to genuinely posh cars and their targets? topic.

Is that an advert for a Rancho? They didn't do the car's image any good with that dipstick on the right . He looks like someone you would stay a long way away from if he had a shotgun.

A baddie if ever I saw one. In the movie, would be played by Rufus Sewell.

[Fink-Nottle]

The Rancho ad is actually a production still from Monty Python's long-lost feature film, Upper Class Twit of the Year: The Landed Squire Edition.

[Johnspex]

Yertis said:

Johnspex said:

MadCaptainJack said:

Here's an opportunity to do a crossover with the What happened to genuinely posh cars and their targets? topic.

Is that an advert for a Rancho? They didn't do the car's image any good with that dipstick on the right . He looks like someone you would stay a long way away from if he had a shotgun.

A baddie if ever I saw one. In the movie, would be played by Rufus Sewell.

I like the way the look like mannequins in a shop window. Not looking at each other but not really looking at anything else either.

[Jader1973]

JPvanRossem said:

The Lonsdale YD41

Named after the Adelaide suburb where Mitsubishi had a factory.

[Penelope Stopit]

Johnspex said:

I like the way the look like mannequins in a shop window. Not looking at each other but not really looking at anything else either.

Nothing of the sort

The one on the left is about to throw the shotgun into the motor, the one in the middle is thinking "fk me did he just do that" the one on the right is watching the plane dropping out of the sky

[Alpinweiss]

According to howmanyleft.co.uk, there was exactly one Seat Malaga still taxed/SORNed in the UK for about ten years, then 10 more seem to have appeared from nowhere last year .

[CAPP0]

JPvanRossem said:

The Lonsdale YD41

Is that not a badge-engineered Talbot Tagora? (Although, mercifully, there may also be none of those left either).

[dudleybloke]

One of the FSO models would be a good shout, not seen a Polonez for over 20 years.

[lowdrag]

As it happens, there is an immaculate golden sand Rancho not far from me, but as for the iriot on the right, one can see he has never held a shotgun before in his life!

[Cliftonite]

skwdenyer said:

JPvanRossem said:

The Lonsdale YD41

Good call. It is only a few years that I finally threw out a launch brochure for that I picked up at the NEC motor show.

Would that brochure not have been worth a few bob to a collector?! Quite a rarity?