So Nissan are bring back the Datsun after 30 years

[matthat]

I actually LIKE the modern Mini. It isn't the old mini, but it's a great looking car.*

*I know feck all about how cars work, and I have little interest. But I DO see then as potential objects of beauty

I kind of like the mini on steroids!!

 

[clarion]

I actually LIKE the modern Mini. It isn't the old mini, but it's a great looking car.

Please seek urgent psychiatric attention.

 

[dan_bo]

Wasn't one of the Sunbeams produced with a truly ridiculous engine in it, a Lotus or a Cosworth or something?

can you imagine?

 

[Boris Bajic]

I actually LIKE the modern Mini. It isn't the old mini, but it's a great looking car.*

*I know feck all about how cars work, and I have little interest. But I DO see then as potential objects of beauty

I disagree, but am in a tiny minority. Nonetheless, the current MINI is comically big (not all that size can be blamed on crash legislation).

The Countryman (whose dimensions may have been dictated by WRC regulations) is just absurdly un-MINI.

I'd suggest that BMW revive the great name Maxi for it, but the chaps in marketing may feel otherwise...

As to the name Maxi... To a Frenchman it doesn't mean a 5-door based on the Land Crab, it means this:

Which is nearly as good as the 2cv, but in a different way. And no room for the shopping.

 

[Over The Hill]

It is a funny world in that a company can make something so lovely as this....


...then ruined it by making an estate version ...

and then went on to this... really what must by the most horrid looking car ever. It has annoyed me for the last 45 years the way the rear door top slopes down from the saloon version and they could not be bothered to re shape it for the estate.

 

[Paulus]

My choice would be the Triumph TR6, I always fancied one as a teenager, but never had enough money to buy one. The earlier TR5 also got me drooling

 

[tyred]

[QUOTE 2550328, member: 45"]We had two Alpines. The first was a Chrysler Alpine, then they brought back the Talbot badge. Vinyl roof. Dad loved them. That was the thing with Peugeots -great to drive and ok as a company car where you didn't have to pay for repairs when they started to fall apart.[/quote]

I don't think that is entirely fair. The quality of dashboard mouldings and things like that left a lot to be desired but 1980s Peugeots can take several hundred thousand miles in their stride.

 

[Chris S]

I've waited 30 years to revive this one!

Q. When do spare parts from Japanese cars start falling out of the sky?
A. When it's raining Datsun cogs.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I was at the 'Trunce' fell-race last night, and one runner arrived in a Lotus Sunbeam!!!

He seemed chuffed that at least one person (me) knew what it was, & why it was initially produced

Sorry no pics, didn't have a camera

 

[BigonaBianchi]

I learned to drive in a Datsun...well that and a ford capri that did the world cup rally that year

 

[tyred]

I remember my uncle with a top of the range Datsun Bluebird. It had speakers in the back, an FM radio with cassette, a coin tray, internally adjustable mirrors and a small light inside the ashtray. It all seemed very exciting at the time.

 

[tyred]

[QUOTE 2550732, member: 259"]Space age! I remember trying to get a stuck tape out of my girlfriend's dad's 8 track - must have been the late seventies. It was a Saab 900 [/quote]

I have an 8 track stereo in the garage somewhere but have no idea if it works as I don't have any tapes.

 

[Boris Bajic]

These are proper cars (neither of which was made in any significant numbers).

But what did they have in common apart from their manufacturer?

 

[asterix]

VW Golf MK1 GTI

I'd the campaign model. 1.8, wide tyres and brakes? what brakes?? Used to drive it in NE Scotland, an amazing experience on those twisty roads. I sometimes wish I hadn't sold it but someone offered me silly money then gave it a total makeover and wrote a magazine article on it..

 

[GrumpyGregry]

The original Saab 900 Turbo.
and the 2CV