Strange looking standard cars?

[Hobson]

Anyone seen some strange looking standard mass-produced cars?

I bet there are loads of Japanese cars out there, as well as the BMW Mini!

Heres the Copel Antiguo.

Copel came up with this curious amalgamation of a startlingly faithful series 1 XJ6-style front end grafted onto the bodywork of the humble mid-1990s Toyota Corolla estate. The revised rear-end styling gave an air of bijou Stateside station wagon which was even more at odds with the car's sublime nose job.

[garcon]

That is just WRONG!!

Is it a diesel??

Actually, it looks a bit like a Rover 75...

[Sim_Da_BTCC_Man]

take out the back seats, spray it black, guess what it is.

[Bluebottle]

Er, a black Copel Antiguo with no back seats perhaps? Just a wild stab in the dark....

[noise boy 2]

Possibly a hearse? Robert

[Sim_Da_BTCC_Man]

I was thinking the second one but Bluebottle gets marks for the best imagination

[Bluebottle]

[Peter Mallett]

Looking at that you just have to go ......................................... OW!

[Hobson]

Heres a Wolseley rip off!

Mitsuoka Ray

In addtion to the Wolseley Hornet-inspired version of the Mitsuoka Ray (see above), there was also this larger, Daihatsu Mira-based version whose front-end styling was more closely aligned with the Wolseley 1100, with the bonnet shut-line straightened out to resemble that of the original. As with the Copel Ministar, the rear-end was left fairly standard, save for modified light clusters and a chrome bumper with overriders.

Remeber, you can go to Japan and buy this car!

Not sure why you'd want to though........

[Hobson]

Mitsuoka Viewt

Perhaps the best-known of Mitsuoka's pastiche models, the oddly-named Viewt was a latterday interpretation of the 1960s Mark 2 Jaguar, as driven by Inspector Morse. Despite the size and market-sector of the original car, Mitsuoka still opted to base its copy on the supermini-sized Nissan Micra, giving the resulting car proportions every bit as odd as its name...