Here Are The Common Cars You've Never Seen Before

I had no idea the Eagle Premier existed until my now wife opened the garage door to her grandmothers house to reveal a museum quality example right into my eyeballs. It was like a bolide of 80's mediocre.

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Before I worked at a Volvo dealership in the early 2010s I’d never seen an XC90. I can probably count on one hand the number of V8 Buick Lucernes I’ve seen. I’ve literally seen more Lamborghinis than V8 Lucernes. Or Pontiac Torrents, come to that.

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I’m going to go out on a limb to suggest that there are a lot of my American friends here that haven’t seen an Acura EL in the flesh. Up here in Canada, if you worked in tech, you either drove a Saab, or an EL. I never got it... cars were already more expensive, why pay even more for a Civic with leather?

Heck, that’s probably a list of it’s own...

Asuna Sunrunner

Pontiac Wave

Chevrolet Epica, Orlando, and Optra

Nissan Micra

And I only recently learned that the Hyundai Pony was Canada only.

Suggested by: dolsh

Been meaning to post this for a bit, but I keep forgetting: Honda introduced the new Passport in late 2018. I have not seen a single one. This despite the fact Honda is a top selling manufacturer and SUVs are selling like crazy. Seen plenty of CR-Vs, HR-Vs, and some Pilots. But no Passports.

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Saw a Suzuki Equator for the first time last week.

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An FD RX7.

Of any kind.

I even live in a town known for its car culture, I regularly see skylines, silvias, Supras, and other weird imports like cefiros, alphards, and crowns, various other “cult classics”, heck, even plenty of ~100 year old stuff in the wild

(an RR Phantom mk1 a few weeks ago, for example) .

as far as Mazdas, loads of RX8s still, even some FCs and FBs, one or two cosmos, plenty of RX2,3 and 4s.

but no FD.

I don’t know how.

Suggested by: CaptainZoll

Not really as common now as in the 1990s and 2000s, but as a Toyota enthusiast (primarily AE86s) I somehow never realized the 87-88 FX16 GT-S (AE82) existed. Although they share the same 4age engine as the AE86, AE92, AW11 (and even the Chevy Nova Twin Cam), I guess I shrugged them off and blocked them from my mind as they are FWD and I’m into the RWD/drift life.

Got my hands on one as a “barn find” from a VW enthusiast who received this in some random trade and couldn’t get it fixed for 10 years, and got it fired up and driving in one weekend.

Now I love it due to it being a rare sight these days although I know of at least 4 others in state that have the FX16 GT-S version. I now notice a ton of FX versions still on the road (4ac, carbureted, auto, drum rears).

Suggested by: Clayton Ashby

I can honestly say, I’ve never seen a Yugo in person. I’ve heard about them since I was a little kid, and up until about 15 years ago I didn’t even realize they were ever available in the US.

Suggested by: MikeofLA

Chevy Vega.

Everyone I know over the age of 45 seems to have owned a Chevy Vega at some point in their life, yet, a quick Google Image search reveals a vehicle that I have no recollection of ever actually encountering IRL.

It’s as if GM did some sort of Men In Black memory scrub.

Suggested by: Patrick O’Donnell

Dodge Journey. Been sold forever, can’t recall ever having seen one.

Suggested by: Jerry Wiegert’s Hair Helmet - Deceased

The Izuzu I-Series trucks (I-280,290,350, and 370). Rebadged versions of the Colorado. I only saw 1 while working at Carmax, never saw one ever again.

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