Name that Car! (Jim McK does GREAT with these challenges. Check comments for the correct answers.)

FABAC member Ralph of Saint John sent this along:
Folks, can you guess the car? No need to hide the logo or any other part of the car. Have a good look if you can stand it and make a guess.

Looks like the front end of my 66 Jag S type with the rims off my 61 MGA but then the designers got caught  in the drug-crazed days of peace and love as they worked their way to the back . OMG what where they thinking, but really, this is a real car in production now.  Can you guess what it is?

Hint: This car company loves to "borrow" the styling from classic and  currently produced autos. They have a whole fleet of cars that sort of look like a ......?????  something.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Looks like a poor man's Bentley.

Dennis.

Anonymous said...

Oh no Not even close. I will send our most valued web guru a photo of thier Bently /Rolls Royce clone. And they have a Pretty good knock off of a Morgan too.
Any other guesses!!!!!

Ralph

David Nielsen said...

I asked my son Dana who has been living in Japan for the past eight years if he had ever heard of these cars (I hadn't). He had seen them at the Tokyo car show but rarely on the streets.
My question is: When is Phil O going to step forward and tell us what these are?

Anonymous said...

Hi David
The first car is a Mitsuoka Viewt the second is a Mitsuoka Ryogu and the third one is a Mitsuoka Himiko JAPANESE look a like Morgan Aero 8
2 litre 4 cyl 6 speed 162bph

Jim McKeown

Anonymous said...

Hi David
Sorry made a mistake on the second car it is a Galue S50 Limousin

Jim McKeown

Anonymous said...

Ahh too easy with three to pick from and the country of origin hint from David.

Hard to belive that the same company made all three and many others. Problem is that they never really got it right on the fron AND the back of the same car.

The Morgan clone for instanse is great from the front but looks very wrong from the rear. I guess if you always parked it back to the wall it would be ok.

Ralph

David Nielsen said...

Well done, Jim. Thanks for the idea, Ralph. Introduced many of us to an interesting little factory.

Ralph said...

But would you want one????

Ralph

David Nielsen said...

Interesting question. Answer: no.
Maybe one of their micro cars though.