@pip-bip One of those in clean condition would fetch two orders of magnitude more dosh today.

@BritsnSwedes-was-MINIGTI Those are the base MSRPs listed on their websites. I have no idea if dealers are at all keen on ordering the base models, or selling them at MSRP with the car market still a bit crunched, but I did seem some on cars.com in that range.

I clearly don't look much at these cars as I had absolutely no recollection that the Passat and Mazda6 had been discontinued until I went to look for mid-size offerings from VW and Mazda (I'm not shocked by the 6, it's an attractive car but it's also a design from 2012).

@pip-bip Hey, that looks familiar!

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@RacinBob said in late night oppo:

It was like a modern CRX without the CRX-Si.

That's one of the things I hate about brand managers is their brand purity. I am sure there was a discussion about having a CRZ Si and that someone killed it saying we need to be consistent and that selling CRZ's as high efficiency commuter car is all they need to do to be successful.

How did that work for you Honda?....

@Vondon302 Pretty sure that's a Lambo.

@pip-bip
Louie, The Fly....

@Urambo-Tauro -- "Liked by people who like it"?

Unlike these two, who appear to be running right past it toward their own car, parked somewhere off camera, at a considerable pace.

@pip-bip
I have no idea how they made such a utilitarian and multipurpose box not only really good but also weirdly attractive.

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@pip-bip
When marketing ruled the World and we were all stupid and....

...oh no.

Can confirm: IS BAIT.

I like the rounder, cutesier original more, but love seeing stuff about aircooled VWs that didn't exist here. Just so good and weird. Like staring into an alternate universe.

@pip-bip
And the financial success is...the white box on the left?!

@SilentbutnotreallyDeadly
Not an Aston Martin Mini, not even the David Brown from Aston Martin, but another David Brown from David Brown Automotive, who 'remastered' the Mini.
83bhp 1,275cc. 1,000man hours. £70,000.
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@SilentbutnotreallyDeadly said in Late night oppo:

barge arse lift back form?

That would be this one? Definitely a step back from the previous gen.
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@pip-bip
It was only meant to fill a gap until 2003 when it was to be replaced.
Wiki sites need to manually open doors. But I can't seem to find other reasons other than there is other reasons.

Many are Class 221, Super Voyager units or Class 390, Pendolino units.

@pip-bip

Looks fine to me....

@pip-bip Very cool! I always liked late-80s Chrysler stuff....I know it's terrible, but some of them had some cool styling.

Also, K-cars may have been bad, but they also ran FOREVER. Friend of the family had one back in the day that had like...400k kms on it before he replaced it!

@pip-bip

4 PS? Be still, my beating heart.

@Ad-absurdum-per-aspera Combination of Kaiser-Jeep and American Motors not being totally flush with cash, and competitive realities not really compelling a redesign, either - the 1973 Chevrolet/GMC Suburban lasted through 1991 in North America and 1996 in the other America, and the original Range Rover spanned 1969-1996 (though it didn't arrive in the US until 1984, and, by then, the wood paneled Grand Wagoneer had become a major status symbol selling to the most affluent customer base of any US brand vehicle, so American Motors would have been dumb not to keep milking it as long as they could)

Fascinating. Weird.

(I can't buy it. For one, it's missing a roof.)

@pip-bip -- Nice choice for Women's History Month, if you take a close look at who's driving and who's trying to keep up on a horse. Hemmings has an interesting related take on the car's origins.

I thought the Speedhunters sticker looked familiar, that's the same car that was in the last MCM japan film-
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@pip-bip
Shop windows are hedges too.

@john-norris boo

@pip-bip "Wow, man, you really like BP"

/RIP Mitch

There is something vaguely reminiscent of the 2CV in that bodyshell, right?

In 1935 Le Corbusier and his associate (and cousin) Pierre Jeanneret submitted what they called the Voiture Minimum project for a "design the next small car" competition organised by the French equivalent of SAE, la Societé des Ingénieurs de l'Automobile.

https://www.cardesignnews.com/concept-car-of-the-week/concept-car-of-the-week-le-corbusiers-voiture-minimum-1936/24910.article

Their *Voiture Minimum" did not win, but it must have caught the eye of some members of the jury who were Citroën engineers. So much so that in 1936 it went on to have a considerable impact on the design of the TPV or toute petite voiture ("very little car"), Citroën's internal code name for the 2CV.

Further, one of the engineers in charge of the TPV was a certain André Lefèbvre, who had previouslyy worked with Gabriel Voisin; and Voisin himself was also a friend of "Corbu"...

@pip-bip

"Give me another minute. I think your dog is stuck in the suspension."

@pip-bip
Bit old for a baby...

@pip-bip Unless there is another golf ball out of frame, that most certainly is a swing and miss haha. He does have his arm straight though, I will give him that.

@pip-bip A whole truckload of cute.

@SilentbutnotreallyDeadly That just might be cooler.

@pip-bip Saw the first picture and assumed it was a concept for the C5 Corvette. The rest of them make me think of the Youabian Puma if it were designed by Erwin Wurm.

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@pip-bip Those loading angles look super awkward

@pip-bip
Now worth well over AU$30,000 for a survivor....and I'd still consider it or something like it.

@Svend my wife and I traveled to Malaysia and walked around the tower, it’s quite beautiful at least in my opinion. To me the best parts of the city were the food (of course!) and the Islamic Art Museum which was absolutely gorgeous. I don’t think my wife would go back since she’s more into nature and the rural life, but I loved it and I’d definitely live there

@ranwhenparked
Wow. Ouch.
Lol.

@pip-bip
If you mean 'bondo' then yes...that too.

I still remember, as a child, being mesmerised by the asphalt as it dashed beneath my feet through the large hole in the front passenger footwell of my mother's enthusiastically but incuriously flogged Datto, circa 1978.

@pip-bip Some people think these old big Chryslers are uglier and not as nice as other American land barges of the time, but I've always really liked them....especially the 300G and 300H that had those vertical-but-slanted headlights 🙂
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@Svend said in late night oppo:

@ash78
I thought you were talking about one of the models.
I was going to say she looks more nonplussed than 'vaguely derpy, sad face'.
Lol.

Why not both? 🙂

The alternative double entendre here is "Can you believe the taxpayers cover all of this?!" 😉

/gm and royalty

@pip-bip I like the paint, that looks better than a Midget to me.

Just make sure to send someone out to sweep the runway after it departs for the parts that fell off

@pip-bip looks nice though I think I'd prefer a low level or ducktail spoiler

@Vondon302 but the turning circle has been cut by 3 and a half feet.

@ranwhenparked
Ah yes...the other fat coupe!

@RUHRRO Is this the last known photo before the 914 club savagely attacked them?

@pip-bip Ignore haterz. That thing is awesome. I love it.

@pip-bip Have you tried swearing and calling it stupid?

@siennaman I'm 6ft and with a crash helmet on it touches the the bit of roof that isn't the webasto sunroof, so not a huge amount of space in the coupe

i feel like these cars are unloved. people are falling over themselves these days to get old porsches, and that includes to some degree the 944 and 968. but this never comes up and i never see them on the roads

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@pip-bip It looks like they are trying to mimic the shape of the mountain, but that car looks more like a plateau to me….

@pip-bip
From dust to Duster....to dust?