The Forgotten Cars Thread

[LM7325]

I remembered a few more cars.

Suzuki Swift GTi, Think of the fun to be had if you swapped Geo Metro badges onto this.💡

Chevrolet Turbo Sprint 73 Horses was not as bad as it sounds in a car this light.

 

[GTPorsche]

 

[SlipZtrEm]

Chevrolet Celebrity.

Certainly one of the cars with the least-appropriate name, right up there with the Mitsubishi Carisma. My dad had a blue four door when I was younger (which was eventually replaced with a '95 Accent ), and I remember it feeling so completely cheap on the inside compared to my mom's first-gen Taurus. His was one of the final facelift models as pictured too.

We always found it hilarious that he frequented a place called Celebrity Billiards, in his Celebrity.

 

[Tornado]

Certainly one of the cars with the least-appropriate name

Do you mean the "Celebrity" part or the "Eurosport" part?



The best part about those is that they were the start of GM's three decade love affair with the 5*115 bolt pattern, so you can get bored at a junkyard and do this:

 

[TexRex]

I dare someone to take a nap under there.

 

[-Fred-]

I remembered a few more cars.

Suzuki Swift GTi, Think of the fun to be had if you swapped Geo Metro badges onto this.💡

Back in the day, some 10 years ago or so, I had a turbo CRX that ended up making around 400whp. Usually ran it at the drags, laying mid-low 11s. I was driving it, late in the night one weekend, when I got challenged, Tokyo Extreme Racer style, by one of these. We took off and all I saw was its taillights, and it just disappeared in the distance. Never saw it again. Safe to say it wasn't stock.

 

[The87Dodge]

Do you mean the "Celebrity" part or the "Eurosport" part?

I remembered a few more cars.

Suzuki Swift GTi, Think of the fun to be had if you swapped Geo Metro badges onto this.💡

Chevrolet Turbo Sprint 73 Horses was not as bad as it sounds in a car this light.

113 horses in the Swift GTi was pretty impressive, but only 73 in the "performance" Chevrolet Sprint? What was GM thinking?

 

[LM7325]

It was a badge engineered Suzuki Cultus. GM had no hand in the powertrain. But 73hp was a nice bump over the 48hp base model, if you look at it that way.

How about a Car that I remember seeing as a kid. Renault Alliance.

 

[Northstar]

Someone in my area used to have one of those, I was very confused the first time I saw it.

As for another car I forgot about, The Suzuki Kizashi.

It's a shame they didn't sell better as I actually like the way it looks. Granted I have no clue how it was mechanically.

 

[Tornado]

Someone around here actually bought one of those, so I see it fairly regularly. It's a handsome little thing. Kinda like Suzuki tried to make the current Mazda6 a few years early.

 

[-Fred-]

I always thought it looked too much like a MKV Jetta from the front. The few ones I see are all that color as well.

 

[LM7325]

Another recent Suzuki that seemed to vanish almost immediately. The Verona, Traverse Inline 6 too.

Acura Vigor seems to have Vanished too. Inline 5 cars are interesting.

 

[el fayce]

Another recent Suzuki that seemed to vanish almost immediately. The Verona, Traverse Inline 6 too.

It was rebaged as Chevrolet and called Epica which is far from than what the car was

 

[townha99]

The Acura EL. From what I can tell, it didn't really sell.

 

[mustang fanatic]

Mercury's version of the Ford Galaxie, the Maurader. These are almost unheard of amongst other muscle cars

 

[LM7325]

Treed By Awesome Mercury Have another car instead.

I have seen a few 3000gt on the road but Dodge Stealth is quite the unicorn around here.

 

[mustang fanatic]

There's one of those in dark blue here. Looks kinda nice.

Mercury M100. Rebadged F100 for the Canadian market

Similarity, Fargo trucks were rebadged Dodges, also for the Canadian market.

 

[Grandea GTR]

Given the only option that the SS comes in makes it essentially the HSV version of the Commodore.

The current Impalas is roughly the US equivalent to the standard Commodore models.

Only thing missing is it being RWD.

 

[Sp3edst3r]

Me: "Oh hi. Yes, is that Mercedes-Benz headquarters?"
MB HQ: "Yes. Who are you and whaddaya want?"
Me: "Oh, I'd like to buy three Mercedes-Lotec C1000s, please."
MB HQ: "But sir, we only made one, and we don't know where it is."
Me: "Oh, that sucks. Can I special-order one?"
MB HQ: "Certainly. How much money do you have to spend on it?"
Me: *looks in wallet* "Uh... $25."
MB HQ: *hangs up phone*
Me:

for $25 they may give you a matchbox version of the car xD

 

[buickgnx88]

Some fantabulus Euro-styled 80's/90's GM cars I forgot about:
Pontiac 6000 STE

Oldsmobile Toronado Trofeo

Chevy Celebrity Eurosport VR

Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais International Series

Buick Lesabre coupe T-type

Chevy Corsica hatchback

Chevy Lumina Z34 coupe

Chevy Beretta GTZ

Pontiac Grand Am SE

Pontiac Grand Prix McLaren Turbo

 

[CTznOfTime]

Liked your post for the Beretta (& Corsica)... And a few others too.

But For some reason i really like the Beretta.

I saw one the other day, and i was like: "wow how long have i not seen one of these and i like them... How unassuming they are..."

 

[TVR27]

 

[LM7325]

I owned a 2 tone blue 1988 Corsica briefly in 1996. I needed a car, and for $1400 it fit the bill. A 2.8L V6 car, 3 speed auto sadly. It could do impressive front wheel burnouts lol. I miss having a beater like that sometimes.

 

[buickgnx88]

I'm sort of a sucker for the euro-styled FWD cars of the 80s and 90s, the monochrome look was refreshing amongst the sea of crappy chrome bumpers and trim. Nowadays, it's all monochrome, so it's very boring.

 

[TexRex]

I've got a mild fondness for neoclassical cars such as those by Excalibur, Clenet, Stutz and Zimmer (nothing mild about my fondness for the Zimmer Quicksulver, though), but I always seem to forget about Kanzler. Hey, Liberace owned one

Figure out what donated its roof?

 

[Fastcarguy]

I've got a mild fondness for neoclassical cars such as those by Excalibur, Clenet, Stutz and Zimmer (nothing mild about my fondness for the Zimmer Quicksulver, though), but I always seem to forget about Kanzler. Hey, Liberace owned one

Figure out what donated its roof?

Roof from an Opel GT?

 

[Tornado]

It looks like a 240z that fell on a prewar Caddy

 

[GTPorsche]

A Ferrari or a Jag?

 

[AnthonyD1993]

I'm gonna guess one of four things: An Opel GT, a Vega, a Monza, or maybe a Ford Maverick. My first guess would say Opel, and then everything else are pretty much longshots.

 

[GTPorsche]

Ah, I see it now. Definitely a GT.