By Robert Emslie
With meteors crashing to Earth, a maniac former cop showdown in Southern California, and the confirmation that jet-propelled squid have now taken to the air, it’s been a rock ’em sock ’em week. Considering all that’s gone down in the past seven days, it’s nice to be able to take a moment to stop and smell the roses, or at the very least, solve the weekly Mystery Car.
So, get yourself a cup of chamomile tea, don a comfy sweater, and put on your thinking cap, so you can enjoy the soul enriching contest that is the weekly Mystery Car. Not to harsh your mellow, but to achieve Mystery Car nirvana, you will need to come up with the make, model, year or range, and likely engine under it’s mysterious hood. And remember – deep cleansing breaths.
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Kamil Kaluski
I don't know what it is, but it must be spectacularly ugly.
I thought it might be a three-wheeler and found this:
<img src="http://imageshack.us/a/img189/2092/robinreliant.jpg" border="'0'//">
It doesn't answer the question but it does need to be seen.
Then it needs to be unseen.
I imagine whale peen looks like this.
Ssangyong korando?
Looks Citroen XM-like.
I was thinking the same thing, but something is not right…
<img src="http://voitures.citroen.free.fr/albums/1989_-_XM/grise_avg_citroen-xm-2-0-turbo-6.jpg" width=650>
I'm thinking a Ghia show car from the 80's, but Google is failing me. I did find this bit of awesomeness:
<img src="http://files.conceptcarz.com/img/ghia/action.jpg" width=600>
Action!
Probably an NSX
<img src="http://image.hondatuningmagazine.com/f/features/htup_1108_1994_acura_nsx/33589345++w750+ar1/htup-1108-08+1994-acura-nsx+rear-mirror.jpg" width=550>
1994 Saturn SL2, 1.9L DOHC 4-Cylinder?
I can't hazard a guess beyond it's a compact SUV from China, South America, India or a former Soviet bloc country.
…Probably some sort of prototype or concept car modernization of a UAZ or Mahindra.
[EDIT: Couldn't have been more wrong…]
At first I thought it was a Citroën XM, but it isn't. Then I thought Subaru SVX, but that isn't it either…
<img src="http://static.cargurus.com/images/site/2008/08/14/15/05/1993_subaru_svx-pic-36544.jpeg" width="650/">
Reminds me of a Citroen Visa…..
The Jensen One! From 1992! It has a Citroen V6!
<img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FAn0aDmlOjo/TtfszGqo2mI/AAAAAAAAH_w/B5anevslNkA/s1600/0112_jensen_one_1.jpg">
Note: It's basically a Citroen XM with silly wheel covers and (judging by the video below) possibly ghosts.
I edited my post and broke things, here's the video again.
[youtube Hp7pAzdnH7k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp7pAzdnH7k youtube]
From the early 90s, when businesses had fax numbers, not email addresses.
I now very much want a Citroen XM with silly wheel covers.
Wow Devin… Congrats!
I give partial credit to LTDScott, whose post made me think "maybe there was some sort of rejected XM prototype" that lead me down the path that found this.
Go Scott!
BWAHAHAHAHA!!! I had completely forgotten that ridiculous thing.
Shit. I spent hours looking for what I thought was an enormous, bizarre wraparound sidelight. Oops…just a reflection.
Well done Scott & Devin.