Forbidden love thread

ITT: Cars that were never sold in the US

Why do all the Japanese car manufactures have to tease us like this?

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>TFW no Starlet

I feel like it's just a "grass is greener on the other side" type thing, but fuck me.

>be USDM
>forced to accept FF shitboxes
>we will never get the good cars
>tfw drive a 4g prelude im cucked into

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Kek, you just stole this

I did, it was too beautiful

Meet the American market variant. Literally anything mechanical for the Starlet bolts right on.

It's cool, have this 3S-GE powered Rolla

So? It's not a 3 door hatch that looks better than a Tercel anyway of the week

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You guys will never get this

>be American
>forced to choose between hundreds of thousands of awesome cars
>they cost 1/3 as much as they would everywhere else to buy, insure, and run
>can't get a few obscure Jap econoboxes that are so bad they deemed them not worth importing
How will life go on?

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Thank fucking god, we don't need anymore shitty VAG cars breaking down on the side of the road

So?

This

we cant get anything rwd
i hate bmw
ihate convertibles
i hate domestics
fuck do i buy

Did the US ever get the Sierra Cosworth? I know you got the "Merkur XR4Ti", but never the Cosworth-models, right?

>fuck do i buy

That is correct ;_;

>I know you got the "Merkur XR4Ti", but never the Cosworth-models, right?
right. Never got the Cosworth models.

too expensive

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>It's a "salty tripshit makes a retard out of himself again" episode

LS400

>he hasn't filtered heartbreaker yet
You must be new here

>better

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too expensive
automatic

Sex

How did you know it was me if you have me filtered? Sounds like someone is trying to downvote things that hurt their feelings.

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You've never filtered anyone. Filtering them gets Veeky Forums to automatically hide their posts. Hide a post and you'll get what filtering does.

CTR+F
No rs2 ?

I wonder if this thing would sell at all in the US...

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>Americans cry because they can't buy a shitty old stagea.

Meanwhile in Australia I can buy one for 7-10k.

It's a crossover, of course it would, but it would have to be under a different badge because no one in this shithole knows what a Dacia is

Never ever.

>never ever
>posts a picture of a Japanese car importer in Richmond,VA

You're a special kind of retard

Oh well.

tripfag btfo lol

If you like it then get it, it's just a Paseo with gull-wing doors

>Tfw no go-cart

God I want one of those with a first gen Hayabusa swap

who is this jizz whizz?

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You guys never got the Patrol either, right?

Correct

Jensen Interceptor?

I'm pretty sure we got some before the grey market was shut down, I remember seeing these in auto trader/classic car trader back in the day

Pajero Evolution. Very cool Dakar ready truck.

Ford Europe made a lot of surprisingly good cars that the US never got

You can find a g35 for under 8k with some haggling and luck

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fuck off with your rebadged kei van, Alphonse

This would would work and if Mitsubishi could get cut a deal, it could help them out alot. It looks pretty cool/rugged hipsters would buy a ton of these.

because the US thought we needed 800,000 Pontiac/Chrysler sub-100HP shitboxes with bumpers the size of locomotives in the sake of safety

Better buy one now, it'll be worth double that in 5 or 6 years when Americans start importing them.

That was because of politics and idiots that believed that the Japanese and Germans were still evil, or buying anything non US made meant that you were a commie. That's my best bet.

You guys don't know what you were missing, especially with the 2.8 diesel straight six

Oh how I long for the craziness that was TVR. Tuscans were cool to but the Sagaris always looked crazy in an irresponsible way to me.

This is the only japanese car Id put up with RHD for

No. mercedes is to blame for America' 25 year import law.
Back in the 80's, currency exchange rates meant you could go to Germany, buy the same Mercedes available in America, privately import the car back to America, and it would be $10,000 less than buying the same car from an American Mercedes dealer.
Mercedes was butthurt people found out how to get around their price gouging of the US market. In 1985 and 1986, there were more Mercedes privately imported than Mercedes themselves imported for American dealers.
Mercedes was so butthurt, they spent 3 years lobbying Congress to pass the 25 year import law in order to protect their profits.

So sexy

I agree.

A4 B8.5 and new B9 avant with 2.0/3.0 TDI

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found the Eurotrash

>don't get some crappy ricebuckets
>get muscle cars and landbarges for peanuts

I don't get what your bitching about

I'm willing to bet money that they will fuck up the next gen that will be sold in the US

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>Amerilards buy cars based on brand

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i\It's why Scion failed. People assumed Scion was a shit brand with shit cars instead of a brand selling rebadged quirky reliable Toyotas.

>under a different badge
You mean like this?

Did the US get the Kadett GSI? Or the astra?

I would blow a nigger for one of these, got an N/A one though, and I absolutely adore it.

Maybe i will put a M45 on it, when I win the lottery or something, the 4E-FE is a legend

slap a Nissan badge on it, and it'd sell in America. The average American normie has no clue where France is, let alone that they make cars.

We got the 1.6L version only as the Pontiac LeMans. That was the first of 2 times we got the Astra

Dacia is romanian m8

Dacia is literally Renault. Some models are even sold as Renault.

Yeah but the brand is romanian u nigga

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It's still Renault.

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yes but the fucking retard americans can't figure out who fucking made the car, they only look on the FUCKING BADGE AND THAT IS ROMANIAN

no one in America wants to buy
or the Japanese don't want to make a gimped version for Americas laws

Americans don't know what Dacia is or what country it is. Nissan and Renault are basically the same company by now. Dacia's would sell in America under the Nissan badge or under a cheaper Datsun badge.

>hey. There's a lot of unused space in this hatchback.
>what if we put the engine there?! And make the old engine bay a boot?!

One of my first hot hatch loves and still is, if only because it was dreamt up by drunken madmen

Wow you managed to post a car that nobody here is actually sad to not have.

Muricans got that. Merkur XR4TI

glad I found this guy in the thread...

No, that's not the Sierra dipshit

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkur_XR4Ti
>The Merkur XR4Ti (eXperimental Racing, 4 series, Turbo, advanced Injection system)[1] was a short-lived United States and Canadian-market version of the European Ford Sierra XR4i.
>short-lived United States and Canadian-market version of the European Ford Sierra XR4i.
>United States and Canadian-market version of the European Ford Sierra XR4i.
>Ford Sierra XR4i

The car you said we got as the Merkur you pointed out , in the fucking filename it says Escort you twat, it's not a Sierra

Get your head out if your arse m8, it's not a hat