Mystery car pix

michaellno

2010 Subaru Outback.

Taking a closer look, I find it interesting that the grille and front lights remind me of an Infiniti G.

lostwrench1

There were over 300 General Lees used in the TV series.
There were 26 used in the movie.

andys120

Yup that is the new Outback.

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vcheng

MG GT with the Rover V8?

stephen987

MGC GT, with the big three-litre Six.

andys120

Sorry Vcheng but Stephen 987 is right, that's the MGC GT with the big Healey 3 liter motor under the hood.

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hudsonthedog

1970 Ford Torino GT

vcheng

Well I tried!

andys120

1970 Ford Torino GT

Yup!

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stephen987

Datsun 510/Bluebird, ca. 1969?

cooterbfd

Nissan/Prince Skyline. (your eBay find of the day)

andys120

Yep, it's a 1967 Prince Skyline 2000 GT, the ancestor of the mighty Nissan GTR. This one is post 1966 Prince-Nissan merger but still wears the "Prince" name prominently>

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michaellno

Chevy Saab Suzuki Kizashi

fintail

Wow, generic

andys120

Suzuki Kizashi

Yup that's Suzuki's competitor to the CamCord/Altima/Fusion etc.

Generic but somehow attractive, sure beats the Accord in the looks dept.IMO.

andre1969

Oh, it's that big of a car? It makes me think of an '03-07 Corolla or a Jetta, which itself looks Corolla-inspired to me, so maybe that's why I thought it was a smaller car. Heck, I might have to check it out then when it comes to the market. Yeah, it's generic looking, but I don't think there's any such thing as "all-new" when it comes to styling anymore.

I wonder who's building it for Suzuki? Something about the cowl area looks a bit GM-ish to me.

fintail

IIRC the lineup is still Daewoo...which has never been a good thing in the past.

The grille is blatantly VW and the greenhouse is Toyota.

michaellno

Yup that's Suzuki's competitor to the CamCord/Altima/Fusion etc.

Generic but somehow attractive, sure beats the Accord in the looks dept.IMO.

The article I read (and, I suspect, the one where the picture is from) stated that its a wee bit smaller, dimensionally, than the major players. 183" inches long, which is about a half-foot shorter than my '03 L300.

I will agree with you, andy, that despite its genericar styling, it does look better than the Accord. God, what were the folks at Honda styling smoking when they decided to approve the redesign?

davethecarnut

Chris Bangle was rolling.... :P

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qbrozen

i'm guessing an Accord Wagon

fintail

But Euro Accord, aka TSX, right?

Much too neat and tight to be an Accord here. That wagon with Honda's good diesel would be a winner. Sadly, this devolving corner of the world seems to have been rejected by that progress yet again.

andys120

You're both right, it's the Euro Accord Tourer (Wagon) which they might sell here as an Acura (TSX?).

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stephen987

That's one of those little boutique Nissans, I think. But I forget which one. Is it the Be-1?

hudsonthedog

IIRC the lineup is still Daewoo...which has never been a good thing in the past.

The current Suzuki lineup in the US (SX4, Grand Vitara, and the leftover XL7) is all Suzuki built and designed. The last Daewoo-based product left the lineup last year.

fintail

Those are gone now? Awesome. They are still in some rental fleets around here.

magnette

Nissan Pao - early 90's - we have quite a few of these here as grey imports.

andys120

Yup, that was Nissan Pao, unknown in the USA.

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andre1969

my guess is they're all '61's, judging from the two Darts. So, three '61 Lancers across the top, two '61 Darts across the bottom. 1961 Dodge D100 in the middle. Probably called a "Utiline" or something like that. I can't tell which model the 4-door Dart is, but the 2-door sedan is probably the low-line Seneca series, or maybe the mid-line Pioneer. Looks too basic to be a Dart Phoenix.

The rig itself looks like it's based on the 1957-60 style of Dodge truck and not the 1961. However, I think that's just how Dodge did their big rigs, using the older style cab right up until they quit making heavy duty trucks sometime in the 1970's. Later models were called "Big Horn" or something like that, but I dunno what the earlier ones were called. And if that's a publicity shot, then I'd guess the car carrier is also a '61.

qbrozen

As an Acura? Huh. If yer bringing a wagon for the first time in a couple of decades, the luxo brand is not the place to put it, IMHO.

hudsonthedog

There was a Honda Accord sold in the US not too long ago.

qbrozen

yeah, i know. that's why i said "first in a couple of decades," rather than "first ever."

Couple of decades was stretching it, but I don't believe terribly far off. I was going to say "a decade" but I don't think that's true. I don't seem to remember a '99 model, anyway. So probably like a dozen years or so. Probably more by the time the new one gets here.

andre1969

I think the last Accord wagon was in 1997. At least, I don't remember seeing a wagon version of the 1998-02 style. When the first Odyssey came out, it was sort of the halfway mark between a wagon and a minivan, and I think it was popular enough that Honda decided to go with it rather than keep the Accord wagon around, and then eventually the Odyssey went full-blown minivan.

Do BMW and Mercedes Benz still make wagons? I see older models from time to time, but can't recall if I've seen a brand-new one. I guess that's the kind of cachet they're going for, with this Acura wagon?

qbrozen

Do BMW and Mercedes Benz still make wagons? I see older models from time to time, but can't recall if I've seen a brand-new one.

Well, I think that's just it. They were never very popular. Most popular "entry-lux" wagon was/is Volvo, AFAIK. Maybe Acura is going for a piece of that. Not exactly a big market, though.

british_rover

Still see plenty of E-Class and 3 series wagons around here but not as many C-class or 5 series wagons. The rumor is BMW will kill the 5 series wagon in the US at least because of all the X6 and 5 series Grand Turismo atrocities they made.

fintail

MB still has the E wagon for 09, but I don't think it is in the NA lineup for 2010 - not that I have seen anyway. We don't get the current C wagon either.

BMW has 3er and 5er wagons for NA, but they are rare sights.

Of course Europe gets wagon variants of almost everything. E63 wagon was one of the coolest vehicles offered.

kyfdx

New CTS wagon is on the way, since they've killed the CTS based SRX..

andys120

Reckon you're right Andre, IMCDB sez the dark sedan is a '61 Seneca, is that considered a Dart? They call the tractor a 1958-60 Dodge L8 D-700.

texases

I don't know what they all are, but I'm sure someone here does!

andre1969

IMCDB sez the dark sedan is a '61 Seneca, is that considered a Dart?

Yeah, the Seneca was actually a sub-series of the Dart. In 1960-61, Mopar got kinda stupid and pitted Dodge directly against Plymouth, rather than it being a step above like how Mercury was to Ford, or Pontiac to Chevrolet. What had been the Coronet series was dropped, in favor of the Dart, which instead of just being a model was a whole lineup that matched Plymouth, model for model. I think by that time Plymouth's lineup was Savoy/Belvedere/Fury/Sport Fury, while the Dart's counter was Seneca/Pioneer/Phoenix. And if you wanted an equivalent to the Sport Fury, you just ordered your Dart with the D-500 package.

The Dart's advertising in 1960-61 even compared it to Plymouth. The ads would compare it to "Car C", "Car F", and "Car P". And "Car P" wasn't Pontiac or Packard!

The move was successful for Dodge, which went from selling around 156K cars in 1959 to something like 376K in 1960. But it would prove disastrous for Plymouth, which only saw sales increase thanks to the compact Valiant, which Dodge wouldn't get its Lancer version of until 1961. I think 1960 was also the year that Rambler ousted Plymouth for 3rd place, and would do so again for 1961. Then in 1962, Pontiac settled in as #3 for the rest of the decade. I think Plymouth did hit #3 again in 1971 and 1973, but after that it was all downhill.

fintail

The first car on the trailer is a Nash, I am unsure of year or model as they all look similar to me. I will guess 1946. The car behind it is a rare and cool Lincoln Zephyr 3-window, I will guess 1939 as it appears to have the facelifted front end. The red wedge was made around 1980, under a name like "Citi Car" or "Commuta Car". I remember when I was very young, my aunt won one of those in a shopping mall contest - she sold it soon after, but I got to sit in it. And of course, the car in the foreground is a current model Focus.

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berri

58 Impala convertible

lemko

That's a 1958 Chevrolet Impala.