Extraordinary cars.

Can't find an appropriater thread so starting one, but mod can move if not right.


Saab 906 Turbo!!!

https://www.vintag.es/2020/09/saab-906-turbo.html

extra-ordinary_

Here's mine...

French Toast

The multicoloured VW Golf Harlequin.

Interesting more than extraordinary, good article with info here.

colm_mcm

Toyota Dyna Route

Front end of a Dyna, rear end of a 90s Hiace with a twin wheel Dyna rear axle
4WD running gear as onna 3.0 Hilux.

These were a production vehicle.

wonski

colm_mcm wrote: »

Toyota Dyna Route

Front end of a Dyna, rear end of a 90s Hiace with a twin wheel Dyna rear axle
4WD running gear as onna 3.0 Hilux.

These were a production vehicle.

I feel as confused as the car looks

peasant

VW type 147 aka "Fridolin"

Factory built for the German post

colm_mcm

Toyota Urban Supporter



Same mechanicals as the Dyna above, 3.0 2wd/4wd
Like a scaled down UPS truck, you can walk from the front to back.

colm_mcm

These are popular in the Netherlands, there’s a local company that builds them

Andrewf20

Anyone remember this from the late 1980s? Contach Evoluzione...

peasant

Tempo G 1200

These had two engines, one front, one back, 500 cc 19 ps each ...and rear steering.
The middle "spare" wheels helped with the ramp angles

John_Rambo

colm_mcm wrote: »

These are popular in the Netherlands, there’s a local company that builds them

Is that articulated with an overnight cab or crew cab? So many questions!! And why? Very interesting.

KevRossi

I posted these on another thread yesterday. A coupe/hatchback version of the Mercedes 190. Tails and lights off a W124.

Andrewf20

E46 M3 touring:

ongarite

It's looks like a Mercedes version of the Lancia Delta Integrale.

endacl

colm_mcm wrote: »

Toyota Urban Supporter



Same mechanicals as the Dyna above, 3.0 2wd/4wd
Like a scaled down UPS truck, you can walk from the front to back.

Would make a great camper.

John_Rambo

colm_mcm wrote: »

Toyota Dyna Route

Front end of a Dyna, rear end of a 90s Hiace with a twin wheel Dyna rear axle
4WD running gear as onna 3.0 Hilux.

These were a production vehicle.

I think I was in one of these in Africa in the 90's.

Ta ceist agam

colm_mcm

John_Rambo wrote: »

Is that articulated with an overnight cab or crew cab? So many questions!! And why? Very interesting.

They do a FWD Ducato one too. They use them for transporting data centre stuff a bit.

John_Rambo

colm_mcm wrote: »

They do a FWD Ducato one too. They use them for transporting data centre stuff a bit.

Mad for such a small vehicle to be articulated. I'm actually going to stop asking questions on this thread and start googling for fear of absolutely derailing it and wrecking everyones head!

Thanks.

tabby aspreme

Ta ceist agam wrote: »

What is this, must be French

Ta ceist agam

tabby aspreme wrote: »

What is this, must be French

Japanese

colm_mcm

Urabus?

peasant

Why buy a whole truck for shifting containers when this partial one will do?





These things used to be quite common (for something so specialised) years ago ...haven't seen one in ages

Cookie_Monster

Those Dyna Routes are fairly common over here in NZ

colm_mcm

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Those Dyna Routes are fairly common over here in NZ

I assume they exist because of ground clearance and separate chassis or something?

KevRossi

This gullwing W124 was from a company called Boschert, they used to be hawked around various European car shows in the early 90's as well. I actually loved it, no idea what they cost new, but this one was up for sale last year for $1.1 million. Front is off a R129.

peasant wrote: »

These things used to be quite common (for something so specialised) years ago ...haven't seen one in ages

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I used to drive one, mine was based on a Unimog. Thankfully replaced by decent tail lifts on trucks.

KevRossi

There were a few low volume supercar manufacturers in Germany in 80's and early 90's, but the economic downturn from reunification closed a lot of them. Some of my favourite were:

Isdera Imperator 108i, designer Eberhard Schulz had worked on the CW111 for Mercedes which is reflected in the design. ca. 30-35 built, note the rear view mirror is a periscope on the roof.






They also built this, the Commendatore 112i, 350 Km/h, only 2 built, engine and vitals from the W140 600 SE.




Dauer 962, the GT LM Sport version could seemigly be adapted to race in Le Mans from being a European compliant road car with less than 1 hours work for two mechanics.





Then Bitter had these, based on Opel Monza/Senators. Very, verypretty cars, used to see one regularly in Hannover when I lived there.



Coupe had shades of a 400/412




There were loads of others; Ruf, Lotec, Koenig, AMG, all were tuners, some went on to bigger things, some just fell by the wayside.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukDK7hwjQjc

AMKC

extra-ordinary_ wrote: »

Here's mine...

That's about as extraordinary as a dishwasher. Now if you had a Citroen C6 or a Renault Val Satis I am not sure they would be extraordinary but at least they would be interesting.

Mr Meanor

I know it's not a car but...
I want one!

AMKC

AMKC wrote: »

That's about as extraordinary as a dishwasher. Now if you had a Citroen C6 or a Renault Val Satis I am not sure they would be extraordinary but at least they would be interesting.

I think it was more a play on the user name and thread title.

Dr_Colossus

AMKC

This is interesting. What were Renault thinking?

https://youtu.be/6ffePsYZsKM

colm_mcm

That’s the same video

passatman86

Griswolds car

AMKC

AMKC wrote: »

This is interesting. What were Renault thinking?

https://youtu.be/6ffePsYZsKM

What are you up to in this thread? First slagging a car that was obviously a joke and then posting a video directly after someone else did.

Wishbone Ash

John_Rambo wrote: »

Is that articulated with an overnight cab or crew cab? So many questions!! And why? Very interesting.

I have a vague recollection that it took advantage of some loophole but I can't recall what it was now. I'm open to correction but possibly something to do with regulations pertaining to a second driver. In a standard HGV, if it has a second driver, the second driver isn't deemed to be 'resting' if the truck is moving.

AMKC

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

What are you up to in this thread? First slagging a car that was obviously a joke and then posting a video directly after someone else did.

Nothing at all. I only noticed his User name after it was suggested and as for the video I had not noticed that after I posted.

dylbert

E36 compact M car.

https://www.bmw-m.com/en/topics/magazine-article-pool/the-bmw-m3-e36-compact.html

peasant

Nothing extraordinary about this car at first glance


except ...

It was a prototype, about ten of them were built in 1966, before hatchbacks really were a thing.

It was several years pre-Golf and really could have been a big success.
Only problem was, unlike the million-seller that the Golf became, it was also German built, but the wrong Germany unfortunately....the GDR.

Engineers developed this to succeed the Trabant which they saw only as a stop-gap solution..the party leadership was of a different opinion and killed the project and so the stop-gap lasted until the wall came down.

The prototype is called Trabant P603

The engineers tried again throughout the 70's with the P610, but that was killed also

XLR 8

extra-ordinary_ wrote: »

Here's mine...

That's not in the slightest bit interesting or extraordinary. It's like a milk pudding bland as füķ.

tc20

^^ see post #31..

Top Dog

XLR 8 wrote: »

That's not in the slightest bit interesting or extraordinary. It's like a milk pudding bland as füķ.

Congratulations on completely missing the joke:p

AMKC

Mercedes A Class deserves a mention in here the 1st and 2nd generation but not the ones after they abandoned the sandwiche floor idea which was genius but expensive.

punisher5112

AMKC wrote: »

Mercedes A Class deserves a mention in here the 1st and 2nd generation but not the ones after they abandoned the sandwiche floor idea which was genius but expensive.

Dear lord no.....

MetzgerMeister

It's extraordinary how this yoke ever went into production. It looks like a bulging haemorrhoid sitting on top of a car....



On a different note....one of my all-time favourite cars; the Lexus LFA

ManOfMystery

The LFA engine is extraordinary.

ManOfMystery

Ta ceist agam wrote: »

It's like an optical illusion

fonecrusher1

Ta ceist agam wrote: »

Must be some pain in the neck driving that.

AMKC

punisher5112 wrote: »

Dear lord no.....

Why not? It was a small hatch with as much space as a Ford Mondeo and a unique very clever safety system. Yes the interior could have been better but the 2and generation addressed that.
The 2nd generation looks great and is very classy too.
The ones after that just got boring and normal.

The Fiat Multipla that a poster above posted is a great car too even if it was not the best looker it had a great interior and drove good.

ManOfMystery

The Multipla got got good reports, but aesthetically it was an incredibly strange looking thing. It's like someone designed the bottom half of the car in one factory, and someone else designed the top half elsewhere, realised they didn't fit together right but had no budget left to correct it so just ploughed on.