The Forgotten Cars Thread

[ToyGTone]

After seeing the all new Toyota "Crown" crossover, that lifted 5 door liftback design somewhat reminded me of the Honda Crosstour.

They weren't the best sellers back in it's days and thus got discontinued 5 years later in 2015.
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On a side note, the S550 Mustang convertible might not exactly be forgotten but it's the one S550 model that i almost completely forgot about.

 

[MedigoFlame]

I hardly ever see G37 convertibles on the road and always forget they exist, until I saw one recently! With the recent news of the Infiniti Q60 going out of production, I can't help but feel a bit sad that Infiniti's only current coupe is dead. With there being no new Z convertible, I feel like they could have kept the Q60 as a convertible.

 

[Sippie]

Reminds me of my IS250c, you never see them. Especially in aus.

 

[ToyGTone]

Toyota Aurion

It's literally just a Camry with different front/rear end. These were only offered over here with a V6 while the regular Camry that we love & loathe are only offered with a 4 banger instead.

 

[MedigoFlame]

A fairly recent car that I feel like is often forgotten. The Cadillac ATS-V and ATS-V Coupe. Always thought they were attractive cars and kept hearing praise for their chassis tuning, but hardly ever hear about them nowadays when people bring up a performance vehicle for $40k-$50k which doesn't seem like too bad of a deal. Especially finding several ATS-Vs for the low $40k range and it can be had with a manual.

 

[GranTurNismo]

1988 Chevrolet Celebrity Wagon Eurosport VR spotted by a buddy. Only 126 were made. The Eurosport VR was purely a cosmetic package, no performance upgrades.

 

[Liquid]

What about it or the package justified it being called a Eurosport?

 

[GranTurNismo]

What about it or the package justified it being called a Eurosport?

GM logic. European is when you have more plastic cladding and body colored wheels clearly.

 

[ZGBox]

1988 Chevrolet Celebrity Wagon Eurosport VR spotted by a buddy. Only 126 were made. The Eurosport VR was purely a cosmetic package, no performance upgrades.

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Gee, I sure would feel like a european celebrity driving around with one of those

 

[05XR8]

I think it were the “European” headlights. I definitely was calling all USA cars with aero headlights that, since the Mustang SVO & Taurus mimicked the XR4Ti & Scorpio headlights.

 

[INEEDNAWZZZ]

Replaying through the first Forza Horizon, I was suddenly reminded that the 5th gen Boss 302 was a thing.

I remember both it and the Laguna Seca version getting a lot of positive press coverage, being featured in a variety of games and a lot of YouTube vids around the time of release but after that, it just... vanished. Both in media and real life seemingly; even in the DYSAGT thread they don't show up (that I could see, anyway). Can anyone in the States confirm, are they nothing particularly special? Or on the other end of the scale, now garage queens? I always liked it, but being on the other side of the pond, it seems me and the rest of the internet/media forgot it was ever a thing after 2013.

 

[Tornado]

Euro in GM parlance tended to mean "no chrome, highest output engine available and upgraded suspension." Anyone who actually wanted something that you would maybe consider over an 80s Audi bought a Pontiac instead; at least in the before times when the SHO hadn't been invented yet.

 

[GranTurNismo]

The Simca 1100 was sold in the United States from 1973-1975 at select Chrysler-Plymouth dealers: