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Weird & Wonderful cars

  • 02-06-2008 6:04pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,314 ✭✭✭


    Let's face it, there's been a lot of well, weird and wonderful designs let run to production.

    And some of them gain popularity as they get older. I'll get the ball rolling with, the weird, Fiat Multipla:

    multipla.jpg

    Doesn't have to be cars just within Irish market


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,544 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Toyota Sera:
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    Nissan Pao
    nissan-pao.jpg

    Nissan S Cargo
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,314 ✭✭✭Marcus.Aurelius


    That last one is nuts! :D

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,726 ✭✭✭maidhc


    I like the multipla! ... here is another weird machine

    ford_scorpio.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    maidhc wrote: »
    I like the multipla!
    I should hope so - the only two reasons for not liking the Multipla are stupidity and insecurity.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,544 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    yeah, Multiplas are great to drive, and very spacious.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,314 ✭✭✭Marcus.Aurelius


    each to his own!!!!

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    It attract teh wimmins.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    maidhc wrote: »
    I like the multipla! ... here is another weird machine

    ford_scorpio.jpg
    What's not to like about weird & Cosworth?:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,986 ✭✭✭ambro25


    Anan1 wrote: »
    What's not to like about weird & Cosworth?:)

    What's not weird and not Cosworth. i.e. the rest of it :D (had the misfortune of lapping up a "free upgrade" from Hertz some years back, Focus 1.8 > Scorpio 2.5 - Oh the agony! What a muppet I been! :rolleyes: :D)

    First in thread with it:
    figaro_01.jpg
    'Cause I quite like them + the underlying concept :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,479 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Alfa Romeo SZ:
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 420 ✭✭quattro777


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,863 ✭✭✭RobAMerc


    ambro25 wrote: »
    What's not weird and not Cosworth. i.e. the rest of it :D (had the misfortune of lapping up a "free upgrade" from Hertz some years back, Focus 1.8 > Scorpio 2.5 - Oh the agony! What a muppet I been! :rolleyes: :D)

    Why ? the scorpio was actually a dynamically reasonably talented, comfortable luxo barge - it didn't look to hot but hey ... So what was so awful about renting one ?

    Do you think that because it looked odd it was crap to drive ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,863 ✭✭✭RobAMerc


    I have always had a softspot for these.

    The misus like this one so we are considering it as the family car before the silly tax rules in July.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭Green Hornet


    ambro25 wrote: »

    First in thread with it:
    figaro_01.jpg
    'Cause I quite like them + the underlying concept :)
    What is that car? I've seen a few of them around and they look like dolls cars.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,638 ✭✭✭zilog_jones


    Nissan Figaro. Based on the K10 Micra/March IIRC


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,986 ✭✭✭ambro25


    @ Green Hornet - it's a Nissan Figaro (1.0L Turbo Micra underneath).
    RobAMerc wrote: »
    Do you think that because it looked odd it was crap to drive ?

    No, the looks I always found quite anonymous/acceptable TBH: a typical US ass (somewhat undertoned for Europe, I'll grant them that) and an instantly-forgettable face.

    It was the drive, only the drive: "luxo-barge" ain't quite the word. It was fast, alright, 140 mph or so (fast as I dared take it, the steering wheel was turning a full quarter with no effect at that speed :eek:). It just didn't like being off the motorway at all, about as marshmallowy a driving experience as I've ever had.

    Nah, if you're going to put a Cossie plant in a luxo-barge, do it in style (and here's one more for the thread, btw):
    PICTURE1.jpg

    I once "brawled" with one of those in Northern France in the early 90s (I had a Delta Integrale). Scary beast, I'll tell ya :) (...and then they give us stick about Scooby boot spoilers! :D)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    RobAMerc wrote: »
    I have always had a softspot for these.

    The misus like this one so we are considering it as the family car before the silly tax rules in July.
    Get out of my head, RobAMerc.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    maoleary wrote: »
    Let's face it, there's been a lot of well, weird and wonderful designs let run to production.

    And some of them gain popularity as they get older. I'll get the ball rolling with, the weird, Fiat Multipla:

    multipla.jpg

    Doesn't have to be cars just within Irish market

    I think the Multipla is weird but not wonderful, in fact these cars are so horrible looking I would classify them as "fart cars". Their predecessor was alott more intriguing

    15a.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,314 ✭✭✭Marcus.Aurelius


    Nice one Run, :D Good find!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,863 ✭✭✭RobAMerc


    Anan1 wrote: »
    Get out of my head, RobAMerc.


    serious value at the mo too - but you'll probably have to moth ball it when your finished with it coz no one else will want it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    RobAMerc wrote: »
    serious value at the mo too - but you'll probably have to moth ball it when your finished with it coz no one else will want it.
    Or give it to my gf to crash.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,726 ✭✭✭maidhc


    ... Or the Matra Simca Rancho? (I think 1001 soccer moms owe this car a debt of gratitude)

    matra-simca-rancho.jpg

    Reliant Robin:
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,544 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    maidhc wrote: »
    ... Or the Matra Simca Rancho? (I think 1001 soccer moms owe this car a debt of gratitude)
    As do the designers of the LR Discovery....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,244 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    RobAMerc wrote: »
    I have always had a softspot for these.

    The misus like this one so we are considering it as the family car before the silly tax rules in July.

    Damn you. I thought I was the only one.Avantime's are cool, not a bit wierd (well a bit, but in a good way)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,366 ✭✭✭ninty9er


    Stekelly wrote: »
    Damn you. I thought I was the only one.Avantime's are cool, not a bit wierd (well a bit, but in a good way)

    One of the Renaults I'd consider...along with a heavily depreciated, heavily specced autobox Vel-Satis.


    **BTW the tax isn't going to be any different on these....only VRT if you have to import...and at that VRT on the 2.0 petrol only increases from 30% to 32%.....tax will still be €590


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭G Luxel


    car.jpg

    a micra sold as a jaguar mk 2 replica for the retro japanese market.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭Max_Damage


    maidhc wrote: »
    Reliant Robin:

    That's a Reliant Rialto.

    Anyway, a few contenders, the Pontiac Aztez:

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    Not so much the exterior, but the interior of the Pontiac 6000 has alot to be desired:

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,468 ✭✭✭ojewriej


    800px-PL_fiat_126p.jpg

    Fiat 126p. First car for many poles. 625 cc, 21 bhp, 0-60 - never.

    And here is Polonez - 2nd place on the Top Gears' list of the Worst Cars Ever made

    FSO_Polonez_1500_1978.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,986 ✭✭✭ambro25


    ojewriej, they're not really weird though, nor wonderful, are they? ;)

    Sometimes, rarely, weird and wonderful collide, to bring us:
    2001.plymouth.prowler.8948-396x249.jpg
    The Plymouth Prowler. 10 year old 2nd-handers to be had for about $15k these days.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,468 ✭✭✭ojewriej


    ambro25 wrote: »
    ojewriej, they're not really weird though, nor wonderful, are they? ;)

    You have a point. But only because ypu haven't driven them - if you had, you would definitely call them weird.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,468 ✭✭✭ojewriej


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Nissan S Cargo
    hpool0513_020.jpg

    I oftne see one of these in the City Centre (Dublin). I acually thought it's a custom made thing for marketing purposes, as it has adds all over it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,426 ✭✭✭highdef


    how about the understated Hyundai XG25......every option under the sun. Nice on the eye, not too expensive to run and as reliable as any Jap car!!!! Oh, and its for sale ;)

    Car.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,863 ✭✭✭RobAMerc


    ninty9er wrote: »
    **BTW the tax isn't going to be any different on these....only VRT if you have to import...and at that VRT on the 2.0 petrol only increases from 30% to 32%.....tax will still be €590

    you are right of course - thanks I forgot that. Its the 3.0v6 we'd be after though the missus has been bit by the auto bug.
    ojewriej wrote: »
    You have a point. But only because ypu haven't driven them - if you had, you would definitely call them weird.

    i have driven the 126p and I still don't think its weird. Whats the big deal ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,986 ✭✭✭ambro25


    The Fiat126p is, essentially, an "eighties -isation" of the venerable (and revered) 500. Incidentally, would the 500 deserve an outing in this thread? Was quite the revolution in the day, and must have appeared "weird and wondeful" to most, before becoming a runanway success, no?!?

    One more, 'cause I love cars, and quirky/highly-individualist ones most of all ;)
    I give ye: the Nissan Cube
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    A few can be seen in the UK already. Lots in large US urban centres.
    (Funny how much Nissan stuff in this thread already, eh? Who'd have thought it! :D)

    Actually... How could I forget (after my Mum ran hers nearly 10 years :eek:!)
    I give ye: the Renault Twingo
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    Fab car, the "90s 2CV". Loved driving it, and with PS and a decent 1.4 TD engine (e.g. the current one in the C4 Pluriel) it would be the perfect semi-urban runabout (IMHO).

    Talking of which - my Mum replaced her Twingo with a C4 Pluriel indeed (1.4 TD), which I think has it's place in here too :D
    citroen%20c3%20pluriel.jpg
    Fab little thing too, this. 60+ to the gallon, 4 real seats in a mini-modular-convertible, with a real boot, and which moreover is cheap as chips to buy & run (well... in France at least!). After driving it extensively last summer, I'm seriously thinking of flogging both the Impreza and the MX-5 for one of these... Alright, maybe just the Impreza! :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,468 ✭✭✭ojewriej


    RobAMerc wrote: »
    i have driven the 126p and I still don't think its weird. Whats the big deal ?

    Not a big deal at all. I didn't know it has to be.
    ambro25 wrote: »
    A few can be seen in the UK already. Lots in large US urban centres.
    (Funny how much Nissan stuff in this thread already, eh? Who'd have thought it! :D)

    I saw it not lang ago in Tallaght. Older model though. I was just after watching a feature on it on Top Gear, so it caught my attention. It doesn't look that good in real life to be honest. It is a very weird car all right.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 420 ✭✭quattro777


    Rear engined, rear wheel drive with a 3.5 or 4.3 litre 90º air-cooled V8



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,544 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    I think the Tatra T87 is far more weird and wonderful than the T700

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    800px-Tatra_T87_silver.jpg

    had the pleasure of seeing the second one in the flesh


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    There's an interesting story behind the Tatras.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra_T97
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Ledwinka

    Basically, Porsche (Ferdinand himself) was heavily "inspired" by the smaller Tatra T97, when he "developed" (i.e. copied, more or less) that other weird and wonderful vehicle:

    1937%20KDF-Wagen%20proto%20replica-a1.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66,401 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    I'd read about Ferdinand copying from Tatra, but never in that kind of detail. Thanks for posting. The cross iron-curtain settlement in '61 is intriguing too

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    Thanks peasant, I enjoyed that post too.:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,986 ✭✭✭ambro25


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    1963 Amphicar (yes, yes, it was a production car)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,544 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    there are of course the "Cummfy Banana" cars, made by Ed China.

    Casual Lofa
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    Street Sleeper
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    Bog Standard
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    Furry Ugg
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    Balls
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    All are road legal.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    Gotta love the Carver One...I know this thread is more for 4 wheeled vehicles, but the bike/car hybrid certainly fulfils both weird and wonderful, although perhpas not practical...

    carver-one-1.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 173 ✭✭SAABMAN


    ojewriej wrote: »
    I oftne see one of these in the City Centre (Dublin). I acually thought it's a custom made thing for marketing purposes, as it has adds all over it.

    Mother had, still kinda has one of these. Great fun to drive, surprisingly comfy bench seat, automatic, 1.5 petrol engine and no need for any test. NCT say its a van and DOE say its a car so neither of them would test it.
    Only 4/5 imported into Ireland. McDonalds have a fleet of them in England, I think.
    Oh, and I'll sell it:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,726 ✭✭✭maidhc


    SAABMAN wrote: »
    Mother had, still kinda has one of these. Great fun to drive, surprisingly comfy bench seat, automatic, 1.5 petrol engine and no need for any test. NCT say its a van and DOE say its a car so neither of them would test it.
    Only 4/5 imported into Ireland. McDonalds have a fleet of them in England, I think.
    Oh, and I'll sell it:D

    OT I know, but I think we need a thread about nissan. How did they go from making cool cars the like Figaro or S Cargo (and were self confident enough to name it, and design it after a snail), the Z Coupes and extremely competent family cars like the Primera to bankruptcy and produce the tiida... while along the way making carzy stuff like the Murano and even the very original Quasqai. They are so full of contradictions.

    That is my random muse over...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 961 ✭✭✭Rippy


    ssang-yong-rodius04.jpg
    Ugliest beast on the road?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,575 ✭✭✭junkyard


    What about these?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,550 ✭✭✭Slig


    junkyard wrote: »
    What about these?

    You could carry me in a box away in one of those:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭G Luxel


    highdef wrote: »
    how about the understated Hyundai XG25......every option under the sun. Nice on the eye, not too expensive to run and as reliable as any Jap car!!!! Oh, and its for sale ;)

    Car.jpg

    It is a Japanese car, the korean version of the mitsubishi Debonair.;)

    this car appears to have every possible extra available 1990-93-Chrysler-Imperial-New-Yorker-Fifth-Avenue-90101261990618.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭G Luxel


    Mitsuoka galue 204, a retro toyota corolla
    mitsuokagalue204_lores_01.jpg


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