You learn something new... - Cars you didn't know existed, until now!

[Grandea GTR]

View attachment 487620Not a car itself but I only recently found out about Hurst lightning rods.

How does that even work?

 

[Fastcarguy]

How does that even work?

 

[RocZX]

How does that even work?

 

[Legro]

Toyota Corsa.

Surprisingly close to the better known GM one in many ways.

 

[Liquid]

Jaguar XJ220 Pininfarina

A Sultan of Brunei special. In what looks like Lotus Carlton Imperial Green.

 

[Niku Driver HC]

Ah, the Sultan of Brunei, one of the most notorious car collectors... And a specialist in having custom made one-offs for himself, as that XJ220 proves. The Imperial Green color, if it is true, is a neat touch, consdering that only the Carlton used it in the color's history.

Not sure if I aprove of that front revamp however; it feels a bit close to one of those Indian (or insert your lesser-known country that designs limited production supercars here)-designed supercars, the retractable headlight setup in the original design seems more smooth and cohesive. The rest is another fine Pinnin work, make no mistake about it...

 

[Nessy]

Reminds me of the Mythos, at the rear.

Here's one I didn't know existed.

Honda Capa:

 

[Grandea GTR]

Chevy badge-engineered a Kei car.

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

Well, that's yet another rebadged Suzuki I now know about.

 

[Niku Driver HC]

Chevy badge-engineered a Kei car.

A Chevrolet Wagon R? Just when I thought I had seen all the Japanese-engineered, GM-badged remake cars...

 

[Clark]

Jaguar XJ220 Pininfarina

A Sultan of Brunei special. In what looks like Lotus Carlton Imperial Green.

I sort of like this, but it's not a patch on the proper XJ200. This always reminded me of a sort of more modern looking Vector.

 

[SVX]

Toyota Corsa.

View attachment 487986

Surprisingly close to the better known GM one in many ways.

JDM land as the Corolla II.

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

Chevrolet Corsa. Did GM just rebadge every opel as a Chevy?

EDIT: They probably did.
Chevrolet Astra SS

 

[synchromesh]

Chevrolet Corsa. Did GM just rebadge every opel as a Chevy?

GM loves her badges.

 

[Dennisch]

Chevrolet Corsa. Did GM just rebadge every opel as a Chevy?

The 🤬 is that?? A Corsa sedan? Did they actually build that for the American market??

Edit.

For the Brazilian market.

 

[Tornado]

Jaguar XJ220 Pininfarina

A Sultan of Brunei special. In what looks like Lotus Carlton Imperial Green.

This really doesn't look too good. "How many generic 1990s supercar bits can we shove on this"

 

[Gotbeefboy564]

Nissan pulsar

It was at a car show in Detroit, didn't know what it was.

 

[SVX]

Nissan pulsarView attachment 488405View attachment 488406 View attachment 488407It was at a car show in Detroit, didn't know what it was.

That's not just any Pulsar, but the GTi-R.

 

[Gotbeefboy564]

That's not just any Pulsar, but the GTi-R.

Think wiki said 6 were made.

 

[SVX]

Think wiki said 6 were made.

No, there was a lot more than that.

 

[Tornado]

Think wiki said 6 were made.

It was a Group A homologation car. They made thousands of them. It is odd that one ended up in Detroit though.

 

[Gotbeefboy564]

No, there was a lot more than that.

It says 2 of the gti r were sold to the public unless that park is wrong.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Pulsar
It's under the 90-95 part. It is a Canadian car @Tornado

 

[ScottPuss20]

Nissan pulsarView attachment 488405View attachment 488406 View attachment 488407It was at a car show in Detroit, didn't know what it was.

I see Pulsars pretty much daily down in Australia. They were really popular for a while there, but not so much now.

 

[Gotbeefboy564]

But are they the same car? And are they a gti r?

 

[ScottPuss20]

But are they the same car? And are they a gti r?

Well, no. Just the bog standard variants.

 

[Tornado]

They couldn't have made only two cars, for two separate markets, and still produce it for 4 years.


They needed to make at least 500 of them in the first year alone to even race the thing.

 

[SVX]

I can't even find where it says only two were made on Wikipedia.

 

[Gotbeefboy564]

I can't even find where it says only two were made on Wikipedia.

It's the second paragraph under the GTI R part in the 90-95 section.

 

[Tornado]

Two distinct models of the car. Not two cars produced total.


Like a Civic Type R versus a Civic Si when compared to the rest of the Civic range.

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

You also can't believe everything said on wikipedia.