Post obscure makes/models from big carmakers (AMC is kinda pushing it but whatever)
Bonus points if the car is actually good
Post obscure makes/models from big carmakers (AMC is kinda pushing it but whatever)
Camden Gray
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Connor Carter
why don’t you post good examples in the OP because i’m kind of confused.
James Morris
The Chrysler Catfis-I mean, the Sebring coupe of course. (And its cousin, the Dodge Stratus coupe.) Just a Mitsubishi Eclipse with a bodykit.
I could write a book on how shitty these are. Chrysler's homegrown sedan and convertible were infinitely better.
Not sporty enough to be a sports car, not luxurious enough to be a personal luxury car. No wonder nobody bought them.
Xavier Roberts
Volkswagen SP2. A sports car from the Brazilian wing of VW, specifically for the huehue market. It had a rear-mounted, air-cooled flat four producing a mezmerizing 75 bhp.
Julian Thomas
Rear
Nolan Howard
subaru brat, not super obscure but cool and kind of forgotten.
Zachary Taylor
Cool.
1988-1991 Mazda 929.
"Oh hey I thought this was a Cressida."
He was a mechanic for seven years, never saw/nor heard of it.
Jackson Long
Ford EXP/Mercury LN7.
Ford's first attempt to make a sporty coupe off the North American Escort platform.
Wasn't a bad car but it was quickly overshadowed by the CRX which came out a few years later.
Didn't even live to see the 90s, but it did eventually lead to the ZX2...which was quickly overshadowed by the Focus.
Thomas Russell
XR4Ti
Aaron Ross
Last time I looked on CL there was a guy in Anchorage that was selling one of these that he rebuilt and re-badged back to a Ford.
Xavier Campbell
I looked at the same one a year or more ago I think. It was gray/silver and a partial basketcase?. If I had a trailer I might've brought it back to Fairbanks.
Andrew Edwards
Nova Twin Cam
rebadged EA82 Corolla with a 4-AGE
1988 only 3300 made.
Michael Davis
Sounds like it, the guy had like a page long list of everything he'd tweaked on it and about a dozen pictures of the engine in various stages of disassembly.
Juan Cruz
Chevy Vega Cosworth.
I've been lucky enough to see one of these in the wild.
Owen Nelson
1983 Toyota Mojave, making the hilux a lil more lux
Carter Clark
OKA
australian made 4x4 company that tried to compete for military contracts, didn't get any so most were converted into campers.
Angel Perry
Canada also got a 4WD version. ev en finding good pics of these are hard
Julian Peterson
Oi, check out that ocker in the OKA, he's got bloody quints!
Camden Campbell
I found two of these for sale on Craig's shits. The not beaten one sold a bit ago.
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Brandon Gray
Ford Escort GT and LX-E and Mercury Tracer LTS
Basically all Mazdas.
Been a while since I've seen any of them. IIRC I only saw the Tracer LTS in a junkyard about ten years ago.
Jordan Rodriguez
Speaking of rare Toyotas (in the USA and Canada), I was walking home from the bar with a friend and we were talking about 80s hot hatches when we just happened to see a Starlet Turbo parked on the street. They only sold those in the US for three years and the turbos are the hardest ones to come by.
Ryan Richardson
What were they thinking?
Nicholas Scott
I want one of these. So fucking hard to find.
Carson Foster
Sebastian Cooper
Parker Parker
and it gets worse
Benjamin Thomas
Elijah Murphy
Hunter Anderson
The De Tomaso Bigua, which became the De Tomaso Mangusta, and then the Qvale Mangusta.
De Tomaso is probably stretching it if AMC is though.
Nicholas Hughes
Obviously not obscure but Lancia may as well be non-existent in the States, the cool ones even more so. I only ever found a fucking Beta Hatch for sale at 10k dollary doos in all of New England.
Landon King
buy the hatch and tell people it's a delta
Daniel Rivera
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Gabriel Hughes
I feel compelled to mention, there's a dealer out in North Hampton NH that has a fairly large inventory of old Ladas. Why buy steel when you can buy Stalinium.
Henry Price
They were thinking that the PT Cruiser sold in huge numbers so they should head hunt the guy that designed it to make one for them.
Jaxson Thompson
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Carson Ross
I love these things
Jaxon Scott
I never realized how much I need one of these till right now. Thanks user!
Gavin Gutierrez
Jacob Morris
Brody Miller
It's a shame mini-utes didn't stick around very long but I accept that they really don't appeal to a very big consumer base.
Blake Bell
IMO cars like this, SSR, PT Cruiser and that one Chrysler designed by Foose had a lot of potential. They were just executed poorly.
But then again I fall for retro boomer bait like a champ.
Jose Green
Probably the smartest thing GM did was make a panel version of the HHR and sell it as a small business vehicle.
Dylan Sanders
I wanna put a turbobusa engine in one of these things
Blake Mitchell
1994 TOM'S Angel T01
158BHP
700KG
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Xavier Collins
they were gaming CAFE laws
same with the PT Cruiser
Adam Reyes
BRhue here. This son of a bitch is beautiful as fuck in person.
Grayson Collins
Stupid fucking newfags, you just outted yourself
Thomas Baker
Not sure if this really counts since it's a concept car.
Michael Rodriguez
This too.
James Hughes
The is300 sportcross. They only sold about 3500 in the US way back in 01-05, only about 2500 remain. So pretty rare and nifty, i guess.
Luis Sullivan
Bolwell Nagari, Australia's go at an Italian sports car
Noah Miller
BMW Z3
Landon Cruz
I am yet to see one with my own eyes. Maybe I need to get out more, kek.
Wyatt Bennett
I worked as a detailer at a Yoda/Lexus and only ever saw one of these, blue color. Detailed it a few times. Didn't really have that much rear cargo room that I can recall.
Another rare Lexus is the ES 250. Only seen one...at least, I think I saw one. I'd love to own one just to roll up to the dealership and sit in the more swanky Lexus waiting room while the techs fix my "luxury" car.
Xavier Wood
Aaron Myers
>taking an old lexus to a dealer
asking for insane costs
Dylan Anderson
Wasted quads, the HF is hardly obscure.
Asher Campbell
>Lancia Delta Integrale.
>Obscure brand/car.
Nigger are you serious?
Easton Flores
>One of Lancia's flagship cars
>Obscure
Ayden Flores
Merkur XR4ti
Thomas Kelly
>Eagle is obscure
Aaron Ortiz
this shit was in midnight club 3
Gavin Perez
I owned two of those. loved them. LE and an STE
William Reed
Leo Williams
Already posted, you faggot.
Charles Jenkins
And then the Qvale Mangusta became the MG XPower SV
Owen Butler
Ian Martinez
>MTX car
>not naming it Thunder or Terminator
Wasted opportunity
Isaac Green
These look great
Luis Hill
F U C C nigga those wheels are nice
Easton White
everyone involved with this project deserves to die
this is easily one of the worst vehicles of the last quarter century
Samuel Collins
Just about any MG saloon, desu, but I'd figure the YB is the most so, given that it released about concurrently with the TD and the TF.
Dominic Brown
This car was in a Kanye West video, right? Feels like I saw it in a music video I watched a long time ago anyway.
Isaac Harris
looks like a shoe imo
Brandon Jones
Car based pickups were a shortlived fad from the late 70s to early 80s. I would completely rock one, though.
Yeah, but the posh feeling of being a poser.
I haven't seen a 6000 of any trim in quite a while. Had their issues, but comfy.
Obscure because they were so awful none of them made it to 1990.
Parker Bell
Hence the clown shoe nickname :-)
Elijah Brown
saw one at Lemons yesterday in Sonoma, one of the better cars too that afternoon I think
Also saw one of those at the show on display, had dealer books and tag inside. Unironically enjoyed it as much as the 959 and GT-Rs alongside it that day
Leo Bennett
Mah nigga, last car company to survive the big 3's purge.
Sadly mine is in some disrepair with a wiring mess, Should be finding out soon if its totally BINGED or not
Adrian Thomas
>Eagle wagon
Ayden Sanchez
>130k Miles
>only had to put new entire brake systems in it since purchase in 2014
>now i get a short right after doing a bit of upkeep i've been putting off recently, melting some shit
I really hope this won't be a stretch to fix. this thing is pure sex to have in the snow where i live
Luke Edwards
Jaxson Price
Mitsubishi Turbo Cordia. My neighbor just got one and I've been admiring it.
Hudson Ward
Not sure if this really counts as "obscure", but growing up my family had a blue Suzuki Aero hatchback like pic related, I beat the hell out of it, neutral bombing / handbreak drifting etc. all the time like the dumbass teen I was, then we eventually got rid of it and now it occurs to me that I literally never see them on the road.
Bentley Flores
fuck that's sick
Sebastian Powell
Nissan Patrol
Adam Reed
The Mitsubishi Expo.
Also known as:
Eagle Summit
Plymouth Colt wagon
Dodge Colt wagon.
based on the Lancer/Mirage chassis, optional AWD, and with a 2.4L 4G64 engine. Drop in a 4G63T from a DSM or Evo, and you essentially have an Evo soccer mom minivan thing for the ultimate sleeper.
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John Thompson
Honda CR-Z
Actually saw one of these earlier today
Samuel Taylor
Adrian Sanchez
Always love seeing this beautiful, autistic things.
Owen Wilson
how the fuck is a patrol obscure? i see them literally every day
Parker Torres
There is one of these driving around my area. Beater mode, rusty, exhaust leak, but still going.
The Mazda2 wasn't around for very long in Canada before it was pulled off the market. I see a few of them now but in ten more years, they will be gone. Saw more of them when I visited Montreal, great small car for the big city.
Jacob Gomez
Toyota Crown Athlete V
cheating a bit here since its a jdm model but I've always liked these cars. I wish I could have a big comfy and somewhat sporty japanese yakuza sedan with "276 hp".
Julian White
>sporty
It's a Lexus LS man, it's not sporty
Aiden Anderson
Before the Tempest became a more conservative midsize platform and the GTO built upon it to kickstart the '60s muscle car craze and piss off the heads of parent GM to no end, Pontiac (at the time with THAT John DeLorean as chief engineer) tried themselves at a compact Tempest (mind you at a time when landbarges were on a streak and the only American brand to even build compacts were AMC) as a weird cross breed of innovation and cost-cutting for a few years. DeLorean had a few ideas he wanted to put into a car, and GM gave the thumbs up as long as he would keep the costs down. Here's some technical data:
- body borrowed from a Buick/Oldsmobile compact developed at the same time, available as 2dr sedan, 2dr convertible, 4dr sedan and 4dr station wagon, Buick and Oldsmobile were also available as a 2dr hardtop
- independent rear suspension in the form of a swing axle transaxle borrowed from the Chevrolet Corvair developed at the same time
- base 3.2L straight four made from literally cutting Pontiac's V8 in half, was assembled on the same line as the V8 with a majority identical parts
- no balance shaft, instead the engine had giant dampeners to decouple it from the body, and ran its power to the wheel through a tubed flexible torque shaft called "rope drive"
- optional V8 was a 3.5L aluminium unit developed by Buick at the same time, discontinued in the late '60s and then licensed to Rover in the UK who refined it and used it for another 35 years in Rovers, Land Rovers, Range Rovers, MGs, Triumphs and TVRs
A few records and firsts of the platform:
- largest petrol straight four fitted to a post-war production car
- Buick sister was the first production car with a V6 (kicking off GM's long history of V6s)
- Oldsmobile Jetfire sister (alongside the Chevy Corvair at pretty much the same time) was the first production car with a turbocharger
- independent rear suspension shortly before the Corvette received it, transaxle LONG before the Corvette received it
Jacob Walker
Jonathan Perry
God fucking damn that is a good looking car, absolute shame to waste it on rabid jungle monkeys.
John Anderson
It would be if it wasn't FWD.
John Robinson
Gimme pls
Hudson Walker
God I love Detroit
Liam Scott
As always
Also I own one, but pic related isnt mine.