What car do people lust over from other countries?

We went to Cuba in February. I'd love to have one of the hundreds of Lada 2107s I saw there.

My gods yes, I want a Lada 2107. Little bit lower with rally inspired wheels and mmmm!

Renault Alpine A310.  I'm behind the times, as usual.

In reply to buzzboy :

Don't ever drive a good one, it certainly won't help with your desire.

buzzboy said:

My gods yes, I want a Lada 2107. Little bit lower with rally inspired wheels and mmmm!

JeffHarbert said:

We went to Cuba in February. I'd love to have one of the hundreds of Lada 2107s I saw there.

Your wish is my command.   Choose your Lada!  

(Figure 200 forint = $1)

I got a buddy in the area that I can put you in touch with who can inspect and probably drive the vehicle to Koper (or another port of your choice) for RORO shipping.

(Also applies to Polskis, Wartburgs, Trabants, Skodas, Vaz's, Gaz's, Zapos and moszkvics's's's's's)

Also:  Lada VFTS

Hungary Bill said:

buzzboy said:

My gods yes, I want a Lada 2107. Little bit lower with rally inspired wheels and mmmm!

JeffHarbert said:

We went to Cuba in February. I'd love to have one of the hundreds of Lada 2107s I saw there.

 

Your wish is my command.   Choose your Lada!  

I have a new goal in life.  I have watched far too many videos on the old rallyfanclub.hu site to not want a Lada. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsDqPITnsPI

Yes, I know it will be slow and have a steering ratio somewhere between "bus" and "trans-oceanic cruise ship" but come on.  Some things have to be done.

This thread is suddenly very, very bad for me.

80s European hot hatches and Australia Fords with the Barra straight 6s are what I think about if we're including what we want now.

I think we should start a group buy on Ladas.

In reply to EvanB :

After converting to USD, I have come to the conclusion that capitalism has been very good to me, and even after paying for the running-dog Western Spy transportation and import fees, purchasing a car made of pure stalinium is well within my grasp.

This thread is very bad for me.

I should probably finish the RX-3 first.  Or sell it to buy a container load of 2107s.

People on this forum seem to really like the current Nissan Micra sold in Canada, much like the previously mentioned Toyota Echo hatch.

I find this funny because it's the same car as the Versa under the skin, only shorter, and nobody likes those.

I guess it's probably just the idea of a tiny hatch with no AC, manual everything that GRMers like.

Knurled. said:

In reply to EvanB :

After converting to USD, I have come to the conclusion that capitalism has been very good to me, and even after paying for the running-dog Western Spy transportation and import fees, purchasing a car made of pure stalinium is well within my grasp.

 

This thread is very bad for me.

 

I should probably finish the RX-3 first.  Or sell it to buy a container load of 2107s.

So the Ladas are on the way now?

Oh yeah.  I came to this thread because of this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ECq1l_iwZo

It starts off with a brodozer Dodge pickup blowing soot everywhere on the Nurburgring   The thumbnail image is that of a Charger police car running with its red and blue lights flashing.

Isn't it a grave crime in Germany to impersonate a police officer, even in a social setting like "Halloween party"?  And the North Loop is a public road, which would make it 10x worse.

I always swore I'd import a Vauxhall/Opel Calibra when the 25yrs was up.  Now I'd rather have an Altima coupe.  

Brit car mag retro.

Knurled. said:

Hungary Bill said:

buzzboy said:

My gods yes, I want a Lada 2107. Little bit lower with rally inspired wheels and mmmm!

JeffHarbert said:

We went to Cuba in February. I'd love to have one of the hundreds of Lada 2107s I saw there.

 

Your wish is my command.   Choose your Lada!  

 

I have a new goal in life.  I have watched far too many videos on the old rallyfanclub.hu site to not want a Lada. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsDqPITnsPI

 

Yes, I know it will be slow and have a steering ratio somewhere between "bus" and "trans-oceanic cruise ship" but come on.  Some things have to be done.

 

Did you notice that the shift pattern's been changed? first is where fifth normally is.

No idea why they did it that way with the VFTS...

Hungary Bill said:

Did you notice that the shift pattern's been changed? first is where fifth normally is.

 

No idea why they did it that way with the VFTS...

Not uncommon on racing gearsets for stock boxes.  It's best if top gear is 1:1, and 1st gear is usually unstressed or otherwise not used very much, so they put 1st gear in 5th's place.  You also don't have to rearrange the shift forks to change the pattern.

Another example in an RX-3

Reviving a dead thread because apparently Boris has been listening to the voices in my head lately, and he delivers.

I've been told that second-gen F-bodies are really popular in New Zealand.

At least that's what the Kiwi who bought mine and crammed it into a sea can with a bunch of others to ship home told me.

I'm going with 1930s Japanese cars. 

https://www.nissan-global.com/EN/HERITAGE/datsun_12_phaeton.html

1950s-60s USA pick up trucks seemed to be liked by trendy shops on Asia and Europe,

When my dad sold his GPW it went to the UK. I see a lot of generic cars leave auction lots and head for the southern border. Mid size and compact nissans fords and Toyotas, FCA stuff more than most it seems like. 

Run_Away said:

People on this forum seem to really like the current Nissan Micra sold in Canada, much like the previously mentioned Toyota Echo hatch.

 

I find this funny because it's the same car as the Versa under the skin, only shorter, and nobody likes those.

 

I guess it's probably just the idea of a tiny hatch with no AC, manual everything that GRMers like.

I've had a couple of Versas as rental cars and I liked them. The CVT is the turd in the punch bowl. Trade that for a manual and you've got a pretty appealing car in my opinion.

Also, I can confirm the Scandinavian affinity for 1940s - 1960s American cars. I used to go to Norway for work, and I noticed pretty quickly that those cars are a hobby for people there.

I sold a 1949 International KB6 which went from my home in Kansas to the UK more than 10 years ago. 

This was the story he gave....

Why do I want it?  Well it goes back to when as a kid I got my first bike.  At first I rode around the local streets but then began to venture further afield.  On one sunny day during the school vacations my Mum packed me some sandwiches and with two friends I rode off into the countryside.  We went about twenty miles before one of the others got a puncture. Once we had got the wheel off and the tube out I left them to it and went exploring.  This was open countryside but I stumbled on an overgrown track that had obviously carried some traffic at some time in the past, and the rusted 'KEEP OUT' sign and dilapidated gate was an obvious challenge to an inquisitive ten year old.  So I ducked under the gate and followed the track.  After about half a mile it was blocked by boulders, but they presented no obstacle, and climbing over them I was fascinated to see the ground fall away into a  limestone quarry, but with a difference.  Though this one was obviously disused, it looked like it had been working up to my arrival, and at first I thought I was about to be grabbed by the ear and frog-marched out of the place.  But as I listened, crouched down behind one of the boulders, all I could hear was the birds.  So plucking up courage I walked slowly down the slope to the entrance.  Everything was still as it had been left.  The weighbridge was there with unused weightickets and various papers, the office block with dust covered windows behind which there were equally dusty desks and old typewriters, the explosive store with door ajar and empty gelly boxes, the rubber tired (flat) tractor shovel, dragline excavator and under the hopper of the crushing plant was a dumptruck half filled with aggregate.  It was eerie and reminded me of the tale of the Marie Celeste we had read in school.  I wandered all round, totally absorbed and forgot about my two friends, my growing hunger and my bike.  I climbed in the diggers, sat in the weighbridge and peered through the office windows but finally finished up at the side of the truck looking up at the crusher towering above.

 

You guessed it, the truck was, as I later discovered, an International KB6 which had probably been liberated after the war and had been fitted with a British Perkins diesel engine but had been abandoned along with the rest of the quarry workings.  I sat in the cab and did the usual pretending kids do, before reluctantly making my way back to find my friends had gone, so I made my way home alone (a child could in those days).  To cut a long story short, I visited the old quarry many times in the following years, finding hardly any changes.  I had my first cigarette there in the old KB6, learned about the birds and bees with my first love (aaah!) and finally moved on to more grown up pursuits.  One day, some 15 years later I parked my first car at the end of the by now barely visible track, and went to see if anything had changed much.  There was nothing there!  The quarry had gone and had disappeared under a freshly ploughed cornfield.  I often wonder if the old KB6 is still under there or if they dragged everything out for scrap metal.  So happy memories of carefree summer days, and a bit of nostalgia thrown in for good measure has made me decide to find out what it is like to actually own and drive a KB6 before I'm too old or the oil runs out!.

Just got back from Japan and loved all the kei cars/vans/trucks they had.