[Closed] Poor selling cars you rarely see....

i learnt to drive in a nova saloon. its the only one i ever remember seeing.

The Renault Wind.

FFS, people, it's almost as if it's called the "fart".

Ford Probe

Bugatti Veyron

Are you at work and bored Houns? 😆

Also I didn't even know they did a clio estate!

Honda Legend
Renault Vel Satis
Citroen C6

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Vel Satis

Only 700 odd still taxed.
http://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/combined/renault_vel_satis

Ford Focus Saloon
(Why turn a decent hatch in to a saloon?)

I had one, great car with a family - the boot's a lot bigger.

astra mk4 saloon

Bugatti Veyron

If you walk through the posher parts of London eg the Hotels around Pall Mall / Green Park you see them parked up in the street.....

OOH on a break, I pass a Clio estate on the way to work and it got me thinking

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I had one, great car with a family - the boot's a lot bigger.

If you overtake one of those Renaults that CFH mentioned, do you pass wind?

See a lot of A classes, but you've made me think of another, the Audi A2

Ssangyong Rodius?

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Fiat Multipla
Porsche Cayenne (although frequently seen, sadly)

If its based on the EUCD platform like the Mazda 3 and the S40 then probably. I can get a DH bike with Dual crowns and 800mm bars in my S40 with the wheels off.

Renault Avantime

I wonder why it was poor selling?
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I pass a Nova saloon every day on my commute, going in the other direction. Utter crap, but fair play for keeping it going.

Alfa Arna. My dad had one.

Don't see many PT Cruisers around. they were pretty poor.

Alfa Arna

Cool car...Nissan body, Alfa Boxer Engine!! 🙂

Come to the isle of wight where shit and old (or old and shit) cars come to live out their days.
Have seen most of the cars mentioned above (barring a Veyron), used to see a Renault Avantime regularly.

When was the last time ANYONE saw an Austin Princess / Ambassador on the road?

Don't know about cars, but the Aprillia Futura was , IMHO, a stunning looking motorcycle of which I saw 4, 1 of which was mine.
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ahh the Eastern version of Mercedes styling. You can kind of see what they were going for and tbh some of the current real Mercs are not much better:

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Cool car...Nissan body, Alfa Boxer Engine!!

If you go elsewhere in Europe you tend to see a lot more of the saloon versions of hatches. I remember going back to Ireland after a few years of not visiting and thinking I was seeing loads of really ugly new cars. Turns out saloons are an obsession there.

Alfa Arna

Yeah that was a good idea - combining the strengths of Alfa Romeo and Nissan:

That legendary Nissan styling and handling with equally legendary Alfa Romeo engineering and build quality. I wonder if someone got something transposed in an early memo..

Another Saloon - VW Polo saloon

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My mate had a nova saloon, 1.2, only ever seen a couple of others, we did thousands of miles in it, was a funny little car, 4 speed box meant cruising was a bit revvy on long journeys, it had the original tyres on the back when it died (2005 ish), think it was an 87 model!

Same mate also had an m reg nissan sunny hatchback with a boot, dog.

Smart roadster was a disaster.

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i learnt to drive in a nova saloon. its the only one i ever remember seeing.

Are you me? Ireland is full of saloons, cheaper insurance and snobbery reasons according to a mate.

Saw a granada scorpio 2 days ago I was stunned...

Haven't seen much in the way of british leyland in a long time or rover 800s either.

I agree about the Citroen Visa. My Mum had one, it was terrible.

I loved my Focus saloon. It was a great car.

....I had a Vauxhall Belmont and I liked it...

Those audi mini town people carriers, you know the ones made from all aluminium which they made a huge loss on after r&d and all.

Honda jazz,

Ooo no there seems to be a trend appearing.

I'm loving (is this what my life has become?) www.howmanyleft.co.uk, thanks for the link!

Plenty of Ssanyong Rodius around as taxis but even then, why?!

Where did all the Ford Sierras go?

Mazada 121 - oddly shaped little thing.
Strangely lots of Nissan Figaro's around here (dealer nearby) but you don't see them anywhere else.

Some of the cars mentioned are rare but not ugly.

Pondo: Cayenne poor selling? It's Porsche's best selling model.

Suzuki X-90, that ghastly 2 seater. Why?

the hatches that they turn into saloons are shocking

I can't think of one that looks nice

Porsche Panamerica

I always liked the Ford Urine!

Mrs tenfoot has a bora. That looks alright (IMO, of course)

I thought the Panamera is selling well, but given its price us always going to be rare?

Passat R36
Passat W8
Golf Country
Ford Cougar
Vauxhall Monaro
Suzuki Liana Estate

Honda jazz,

Are we naming cars that look OK and that that are hundreds of thousands of, and you see them literally everywhere 🙂

That is certainly not a Rare car by any definition.

I salute you Globalti

Suzuki X-90, that ghastly 2 seater

Nobody can top that. I must have erased it from my memory for a reason!

😮 if it wasn't for the Jazz honda wouldn't exist! ( mild over exaggeration admittedly but they ain't rare!)

Nissan Sunny GTi-R, plenty jap imports but very few UK spec cars.

Anything by Ssangyong.. Awful cars
Chrysler PT Cruiser.. Why would u even consider one
Chrysler Neon
Vauxhall Cavalier MK2 convertible
Vauxhall Belmont SRi

Alfa Arna
Yeah that was a good idea - combining the strengths of Alfa Romeo and Nissan:

That legendary Nissan styling and handling with equally legendary Alfa Romeo engineering and build quality. I wonder if someone got something transposed in an early memo..

Aston Martin Lagonda. Its just plain wrong

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I saw one of those Aston Martin Toyota thingies the other day

Bit old now....

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But the ugliest car around back in its day.

A Cygnet? Only 143 registered, apparently!

Cayenne poor selling? It's Porsche's best selling model.

oi! I learned to drive in an Allegro estate (had some nodding similarity to a min hearse I always reckoned).

I pass a Nova saloon every day on my commute, going in the other direction. Utter crap, but fair play for keeping it going.

I had one. It was a decent car actually, pokey little thing round town, comfy, reliable, cheap, HUGE boot!

I also had a 1976-ish VW Derby a long time ago, a Polo saloon, which was even more pokey than the Nova and had a MAHOOSIVE boot. I used to chuck stuff in and listen for the thud when it hit the bottom. I can totally see the point of saloon cars. 🙂

Like this, but metallic bronze with chrome outer wheel trims.
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Ruling out the old (not really a surprise that you don't see many allegro's on the road these days) you don't really see many VW Phaetons on the road. I took one apart bit by bit last year. It was lovely but I was looking for something 😉

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Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you.....

The Austin Princess!

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Mrs tenfoot has a bora. That looks alright (IMO, of course)

one of the staff at our local petrol staion uses a lime green allegro as a daily driver and last week i saw an austin ambassador in a drive.. yup it had a vinyl roof

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hmmm lovely

Saloons sell really well across Europe, no idea why us brits hate them so much. I saw a new Citroen C-Eylsee when I was in lanzarote a couple of weeks ago. Looked like a c4 with a boot and slight makeover. Nice to drive and loads of space for a bike in the boot. Citroen won't release it over here as they know it won't sell. But it has sold well in China, and its loebs new car for WTCC next year, although his may have a better spec!!

http://www.citroencelysee.com/

Got to stick up for the Nova...they were good cars in their day. I had one for 8 years and 80k+ miles and was totally reliable, easy to work on, simple and tough. 45 mpg+ regardless of how you drove it. Still sought after as cheap privateer rally cars today. But yes, the saloons did look hideous. Best were the 3door with the square rear arches 😉

Ford Fusion,

Jaguar sportsback thing, eg mondeo rebodied

mondeo estate,

Rover 400,45

Talbot Tagora. Mmmmmmm.

I've got an Austin Ambassador in my workshop, 😉

Just replaced the engine in it, then got to a tiny bit of welding on one rear wheelarch and its back on the road again!

In the US they don't like hatchbacks. In the 70s they tried to introduce a few small ones they were really bad, which means that as soon as the oil crisis went away manufacturers gave up and the very conservative car buying public associate the word 'hatchback' with cheap crap. So when the big global manufacuters try and sell small cars (hard enough as it is) they roll out the saloon version with eye-watering results. Saloon Yaris anyone?

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MG ZT/Rover 75 V8

Surprises me that UK buyers are so sniffy about saloons, yet one sees plenty of the "CC" versions of mid sized cars...focus, 307, megane...which are about as ugly a motor as you're likely to see.

Subaru Tribeca one fugly poor selling heap of metal.
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VW Vento

Not many left now. I drove 140K faultless commuting miles along the M40 at 56 mpg in mine. The irony is that we also had a Golf, and the boot on the Vento was so much better and the car was £2K cheaper. We used to put the buggy and travel cot in lengthways. Really it was a Golf Estate without the top corner.

VW have always had a problem selling saloon cars.

My mum had a Talbot Samba back in the early eighties - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talbot_Samba

Not many of those left..... must be worth a fortune now. Or not.

http://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=talbot+samba

I've only ever seen one Talbot Rancho.....

I suppose it was ahead of it's time as I don't really recall anything similar in it's day. Certainly no-one was driving around in mpv's and soft roaders back then.

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