Have You Seen Any Interesting Cars On The Road Lately?

[TeddyRuxpin]

They did in the R32

 

[SpikyMikey]

They did in the R32

3.189cc to be exact

 

[martyz]

 

[ToeKnee]

3.189cc to be exact

That's a very small engine, sure you don't mean 3.189 litres........

 

[SpikyMikey]

That's a very small engine, sure you don't mean 3.189 litres........

My phone made me do it.
, not .

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

Which reminds me of Piech’s “three litre cars”

“ Piech put Volkswagen at the forefront of low fuel consumption vehicles using conventional engines. Its “three-litre” cars, the VW Lupo 3L and Audi A2 3L, still lead the industry, (three litre per 100 km, the Continental way of measuring fuel consumption, equal to 94 mpg).”

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Would it really be anti-EUropean to ask: “was he right?”

Should we have encouraged most people to drive cars that were “fit for their purpose” as opposed to selling “the world and her dog” on cars thst can be driven at 160mph but never are?

What is wrong with an 80 mpg car as an urban runabout?

 

[baxlin]

Would it really be anti-EUropean to ask: “was he right?”

Should we have encouraged most people to drive cars that were “fit for their purpose” as opposed to selling “the world and her dog” on cars thst can be driven at 160mph but never are?

Or indeed thumping great SUVs that the only time they go off road is when mummy (or daddy) parks on the pavement outside the school at 3pm…

 

[Teego]

Or indeed thumping great SUVs that the only time they go off road is when mummy (or daddy) parks on the pavement outside the school at 3pm…

Or, in the case of our local school, on the grass - edit - mud verges.

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

Or indeed thumping great SUVs that the only time they go off road is when mummy (or daddy) parks on the pavement outside the school at 3pm…

Quite why anyone who wants or needs anything more than I have - or any different to I have - is a complete mystery to me.

 

[Bellow]

Which scared the crap out of other hot hatch makers who thought VW was about to launch a Golf with a 3 litre engine.

Not quite. VAG's '3-litre' cars were in response to its fear Renault was close to beating them to the prize. Renault's 3 litre was the V6 Clio.

 

[baxlin]

Quite why anyone who wants or needs anything more than I have - or any different to I have - is a complete mystery to me.

Love it!!

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

Or indeed thumping great SUVs that the only time they go off road is when mummy (or daddy) parks on the pavement outside the school at 3pm…

Can't expect the little dears to walk 15 minutes to school, can we ?

 

[ToeKnee]

Can't expect the little dears to walk 15 minutes to school, can we ?

They could always get a taxi.......

 

[Darrell]

An article in Classic Cars Weekly celebrating 50 years of the TR7 and what it could have become. Thank god it didn’t.

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

An article in Classic Cars Weekly celebrating 50 years of the TR7 and what it could have become. Thank god it didn’t.

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Different times. These used to be”try” to overtake me in my 1.8 Marina on Speke Boulevard.

No chance, but they looked modern compared to the MGB’s and Spitfires of the time.

Why did they fail? Because they were made in Speke in the 1970’s.

 

[ToeKnee]

Saw a Urus in "shocking electric pink" yesterday. I assume it was a wrap but it was certainly striking!

 

[SpikyMikey]

An article in Classic Cars Weekly celebrating 50 years of the TR7 and what it could have become. Thank god it didn’t.

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Looks a bit like a cut & shut with an SD1

 

[Scott_F]

Different times. These used to be”try” to overtake me in my 1.8 Marina on Speke Boulevard.

No chance, but they looked modern compared to the MGB’s and Spitfires of the time.

Why did they fail? Because they were made in Speke in the 1970’s.

Only the earlier ones were built in Speke - production later moved to Triumph's plant in Coventry and then to Rover's plant in Solihull.

They were never great but with their 2.0 OHC engine and twin carbs they were quicker and more powerful than the Marina - even the "sporty" TC Marina used Leyland's aged OHV B-series lump.

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

Only the earlier ones were built in Speke - production later moved to Triumph's plant in Coventry and then to Rover's plant in Solihull.
They were never great but with their 2.0 OHC engine and twin carbs they were quicker and more powerful than the Marina - even the "sporty" TC Marina used Leyland's aged OHV B-series lump.

For sure, it was Spring 1975 when they were being driven down Speke Boulevard alongside me.

But then my Marinas were "run in" company cars, not TR7's being tested fresh off the Speke Number 2 production line.

(As I hinted, much of their poor reputation for build quality was really due to the first ones which were built at Speke, the later Triumph and Solihull ones were better made - by people who cared about the stuff they made)

A bit of the Red Baron going on when I was driving Marinas on Speke Boulevard and down the M6 in 1975..

In a way as Evo still finds at Anglesey when it puts the MX5 up against far more powerful competitors at E-COTY....

 

[slade1]

1972/3 had Marina coupe, only BMC/BL would build a coupe with short doors from a 4 door saloon.