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There is also the Ferrari 208 GTB (and the GT4). They looked the same as the famous 308 range but had a smaller 2L V8 engine to fit the Italian taxation laws.

The Mazda Roadpacer is almost an exotic in its own right, but being based on the Holden Kingswood brings it down too far. It wasn't sold here but has anyone ever seen one?

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 I nominate the 1.3litre Ford Cortina Mk 4 in canary yellow.  I simply find it hard to believe that all these years later anyone has kept one going, they were miserably slow, an awful colour and so unlikely to have been cherished.  Not as popular as the old 1.6 litre and 2.0 litre in its day, anyway. But now?  I bet the DVLC would have to look far to find one now....

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Sam the Eagle said:

So this thread is about the forgotten/ rare model or spec of one car, rather than a forgotten car, right?

 

 

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Exactly Sam, thanks for your interest as well, it is appreciated.

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The contrast of the car with the background is interesting. Today such a car would be posed against a stark piece of modernist concrete. Something by Calatrava or some anonymous Eurocity photoshop composite. Or, a minimalist house with a fully paved front "garden."  I´m way off topic here but has anyone noticed how divorced car ads are from reality these days? The images point to wholly sterile unpopulated suburbs, car-free streets and dead-eyed houses straight out of JG Ballard´s dystopian fantasies. I prefer the Jensen image. You actually believe the girl and car are real. You can almost smell the coffee breath and the whiff of burning engine oil.

I´d love to think of a rarity but I can´t. I´ll read other posts and learn something.

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My concern was the impact this is having on what people expect of their gardens. There´s been a wave of paving in the last decade. Partly people do it because insurance gives them lower rates for off-street parking and people are getting tired of hunting for parking too. But they don´t have to seal the entire surface of their front yard which is they increasingly do. Not one bush or strip of grass. I suspect some people are thinking it is "normal" to park their car on a sterile square of concrete. Danish modern houses are often finished this way, with nothing but concrete from door to footpath.