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show me obscure production models from major car makers | « » 4:21 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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example: vw puma subaru 360 van
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What is your definition of obscure?
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Re: show me obscure production models from major car makers (mob my audi) » | « » 4:23 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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Re: FV-QR (Wimbledon) » | « » 4:29 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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| Quote, originally posted by Wimbledon » | | What is your definition of obscure? |
Yeah, please clarify. I wouldn't call Subaru 360 obscure since it was produced in great numbers.
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Re: FV-QR (bzcat) » | « » 4:30 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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It's easy to forget VW even builds this. I see more Routans.
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Re: FV-QR (bzcat) » | « » 4:44 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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bzcat and wimbelton: Less talk more pictures. ob·scure (ob-skyoor)
1. Not readily noticed or seen; inconspicuous 2. Out of sight; hidden, secret, or remote more pics:
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Re: show me obscure production models from major car makers (mob my audi) » | « » 5:11 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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I didn't think that VW actually made the Puma. IIRC, that was a small manufacturer building cars with VW parts.And the Sube 360 van would be obscrue as it was less seen and less well known than the 360 car. A nice obscure car i'd love to have is the Mazda Chantez;
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Re: FV-QR (PassSedanGLX) » | « » 5:15 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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| Quote, originally posted by PassSedanGLX » | | It's easy to forget VW even builds this. I see more Routans. |
FWIW they're very popular in Germany. I see them fairly often, along with the CC and Tiguan.
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Re: show me obscure production models from major car makers (Merc63) » | « » 5:16 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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Re: show me obscure production models from major car makers (Bonfire) » | « » 5:27 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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Re: show me obscure production models from major car makers (BluMagic) » | « » 5:31 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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Re: (Galrot) » | « » 5:53 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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The obvious ones I can think of. You see them time to time but they are definitely obscure. Subaru Baja  Plymouth Prowler Chevrolet SSR
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| Quote, originally posted by RzinDubs » | | The obvious ones I can think of. You see them time to time but they are definitely obscure. Subaru Baja  Chevrolet SSR |
A guy down the road from me owns one of each of these.
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Re: FV-QR (NicholasJay) » | « » 6:35 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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not ours, but the same color....1981 Ford Durango...made from a Futura, only 325 were made. we never should of sold it.... 
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Re: FV-QR (PassSedanGLX) » | « » 6:43 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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| Quote, originally posted by PassSedanGLX » | | It's easy to forget VW even builds this. I see more Routans. |
I see lots of them around here... then again I frequently am in Oakville... the GTA's little Bel-Air
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Re: FV-QR (gogoturbo) » | « » 6:52 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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| Quote, originally posted by gogoturbo » | | Volvo 262C by Bertone |
Ah, that's what this is. I saw one parked in Brooklyn, but on the back it only said "Coupe", instead of a model number. 


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Re: FV-QR (PassSedanGLX) » | « » 7:08 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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| Quote, originally posted by PassSedanGLX » | | It's easy to forget VW even builds this. I see more Routans. |
There are 2 in my neighborhood and my SIL has one. Go figure.
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Re: FV-QR (gogoturbo) » | « » 7:08 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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| Quote, originally posted by gogoturbo » | | Volvo 262C by Bertone 
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There's obscure due to rarity, and then there's rarity due to obscurity.
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Corrado isn't really that obscure, thing sort of is, but there are two of them here in my town
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Re: (sailski07) » | « » 11:38 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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Jaguar X-Type wagon - I have never seen one of these in real life 

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Re: (sailski07) » | « » 11:41 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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There was a VW thing at Vandenberg AFB in California when I was there, it had turned into the tech schools "Guam bomb." A new student would buy it, drive it around, and then sell it shortly before leaving for just about as much as he originally bought it for. I think six different guys owned it the whole time I was there, The obscure car that broke me of domestics in general and general motors specifically, isn't obscure at all. At least not on the other side of the ocean. Saturn Astra.
I was a bit of a Saturn fan for a while, and was hoping that GM was starting to think outside the box for once.
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You never see these, either: 
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First there was the Beetle... Bus... Karman Ghia... then VW got antsy, because they knew they couldn't live on these forever...First there was these... (Beetles in new bodies) Then there were these... (little more innovation, still aircooled but bigger engine, 4 door, more modern) I'm pretty sure this is obscure... I don't even think it made it to the US? it's the Lisa of the VW world The first try that was too expensive and too problematic. (now we're cooking...VW bought Audi and stole their new water-cooled front-driver... too bad it flopped...) Then we got these: BINGO! 
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Re: FV-QR (VDub2625) » | « » 11:57 PM 11-20-2009 | |
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