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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    '72 Dodge Demon?

    Indeed.

    2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93

  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
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    2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93

  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,594
    Citroen XM. The French copy nobody...and well, you know the rest.
  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,672
    well, it looks like Honda copied the rear profile for the new Odyssey.

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  • boomchekboomchek Member Posts: 5,516
    Except the Honda profile goes the other way.

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,672
    Well, that is because in Japan they drive on the other side of the road.

    Duh.

    :shades:

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  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,234
    No, they don't - that's you guys.
  • michaellnomichaellno Member Posts: 4,120
    Isn't that a shot from the movie "Ronin"?
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Far as I can find out, they just came with carb(s). Later CSi came with fuel injection.

    Later came the spin-offs in Miami and NY. :P
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    edited August 2012
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    2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93

  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Fiat Barchetta? I believe...

    It actually aged well.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    Yep, it is a 1997 Fiat Barchetta. The style has aged well but the whole idea of a FWD 2-seat roadster is terrible.

    2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93

  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
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    2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93

  • michaellnomichaellno Member Posts: 4,120
    Yep, it is a 1997 Fiat Barchetta. The style has aged well but the whole idea of a FWD 2-seat roadster is terrible.

    Wasn't in the Barchetta that took the Hamster from Baghdad to Bethlehem on Top Gear?
  • magnettemagnette Member Posts: 4,234
    1948 Nash 600 - the 47 had a longer chrome strip on the flank.
  • wgraferwgrafer Member Posts: 592
    A friend of my Dad had one of these - it's a Nash, but '46,'47, and '48 looked pretty much alike. I'll go with 1948.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    1948 Nash 600

    Yep.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
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    2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93

  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,672
    1960s Peugeot 40something?

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  • c_lachnitc_lachnit Member Posts: 2
    edited August 2012
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    An Edmunds follower on Facebook wonders what's in the photo with his great-grandmother. One of our automotive editors thinks it's a 1939 Ford Deluxe. Do you agree?

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    Features Editor
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  • omarmanomarman Member Posts: 2,702
    Sure looks like it. On the bigger pic of this mystery car you can just make out the Ford emblem above the grille on the passenger side. Driver's side would have a De Luxe emblem above the grille.
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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,594
    Yes, that's what it is. I am 100% sure it can only be that - the grille changed for 1940, and the "standard" 39 Ford had a carryover 1938 grille.

    Nice car, I wonder what color it was.
  • boomchekboomchek Member Posts: 5,516
    I agree too, the headlight, license plate positining, fender, and running boards look identical.

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  • au1994au1994 Member Posts: 3,729
    It was. Although it may have been a different year as I recall his looking a little different.

    Great episode btw...

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  • c_lachnitc_lachnit Member Posts: 2
    Thanks, everyone! I put a link to this discussion in my reply to the gentleman who posted.

    Carroll
  • bhill2bhill2 Member Posts: 2,610
    I believe it's a Triumph Vitesse.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
    I believe it's a Triumph Vitesse.

    Yup, it's a late 60s/early 70s Triumph Vitesse IIRC these were not sold in the US but it's predecessor the Herald was.

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  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
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    2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93

  • michaellnomichaellno Member Posts: 4,120
    New MB A-class.
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    I wonder if we'll even get the hatch?

    Mercedes needs this so that the C class can move upscale and away from the $300 lease specials.

    The sedan will do well here, I bet, FWD and all.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,594
    It's funny, the local dealer is offering something like a $299 special on an absolute base model right now. You couldn't have leased a 4cyl 190E for that 25 years ago!
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    The best reason for having an entry one segment lower (Audi A4, BMW 1 series) is that those can serve as "bait" for new, more frugal, likely younger buyers, and allow cars like the C-class to move upscale in content and price, where M-B can actually make a profit.

    CLA will arrive just as Audi and BMW add sedan versions to their smallest lines.

    I bet it'll be a *HUGE* hit for M-B. Styling is a bit daring, but the younger buyers are most likely to accept that in a Benz. Traditional buyers move up to a C- or E-, and that minimizes cannibalization. Younger buyers are also least likely to even realize which wheels drive the car.

    It's brilliant, really.
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    Yep a 1939 and probably a deluxe because it has the chrome "beauty rings" around the hubcaps.
  • Mr_ShiftrightMr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481
    It IS brilliant, but Mercedes had better not cheap out on the car, or instead of winning future MB buyers, they will alienate all the young ones who spring for this entry level mode.

    Mercedes has screwed up this entry-level approach before.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,594
    MB is the master at finding and filling niches. I suspect it will work.
  • michaellnomichaellno Member Posts: 4,120
    MB is the master at finding and filling niches. I suspect it will work.

    You mean like the R-class?

    (sorry, couldn't resist)

    I agree that the A-class should do well. Kinda like the ILX for Acura.
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675
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    2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93

  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,594
    The R found a few buyers...mo more of a failure than something like a HS. But other niches, especially the CLS, have knocked it out of the park.

    I'd probably take an A over an ILX...small awkward sedans don't do anything for me. Once a certain point is reached, a trunk looks wrong.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,594
    Blighty ca. 1970. I will go with the easy car, MB W113 SL.
  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,672
    what about bait for us old "frugal" buyers?

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  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Nah, old guys will buy something old (used).
  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    I dunno - think Scion and the over 55 crowd that Toyota's "youth" brand enticed into the showroom. (Including me).
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    I think the FWD Benz buyers will be mostly new to the brand. In other words I don't see existing customers moving down.
  • boomchekboomchek Member Posts: 5,516
    The A Class would be for someone like my mom, who likes the 3 pointed star but might not be able to spring $45k for a C Class, and just needs a car around town.

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  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    I think the FWD Benz buyers will be mostly new to the brand.

    Agree. Just don't think the buyers will necessarily be young buyers.

    Back to mystery car pics, here's a non-Mazda smiley zoom-zoom:

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  • qbrozenqbrozen Member Posts: 33,788
    Hmmm... is this a trick? Seems too easy. Could it be that it really is just a Bugeye Sprite?

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  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    edited August 2012
    It's just to suck you into a good story over on Readers Rides. The owner has a nice flair for words (and for cars).

    "the Sprite comes from a time when not very many cars could do the "ton," which is 100 mph. (Certainly not this one; you'd have to drop this car off a cliff to get it anywhere close to 100 mph.)"

    It's a 1960 Austin-Healey Sprite Mark I, not the original color.
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    Picture from Philadelphia Junkyard:

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    Hom many can you identify
  • andys120andys120 Member Posts: 23,675

    Blighty ca. 1970. I will go with the easy car, MB W113 SL.

    Anyone know the grey car behind it or the orange one?

    The four=headlight car across the street looks like a Ford Capri Mk. I

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,594
    I can't make out the orange car, car behind the MB is possibly a Vauxhall Viva.

    4 light car looks like a Triumph 2000 to me.
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