"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
06/13/2015 at 17:05 • Filed to: Subaru, Signet, Rex | 4 | 21 |
Not any more anyway.
A Subaru Signet, although it had lots of other names depending on where you bought it.
boredalways
> Cé hé sin
06/13/2015 at 17:16 | 1 |
I think in the US, it was a Justy
Edit: related but not the same
Cé hé sin
> boredalways
06/13/2015 at 17:18 | 1 |
No, it’s one step down from that. In Japan it was the Rex and was a kei car.
Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
> Cé hé sin
06/13/2015 at 17:18 | 0 |
Are old cool cars a common thing in Vedrafjörður / Contae Phort Láirge?
Boxer_4
> boredalways
06/13/2015 at 17:22 | 0 |
This Signet is a third generation Rex. The Justy was a widened and stretched second generation Rex. The two shared doors and some other sheet metal, but they are not the same car.
Dsscats
> Cé hé sin
06/13/2015 at 17:23 | 0 |
Oh, Kei
PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power
> Cé hé sin
06/13/2015 at 17:24 | 0 |
is that a Suzuki maruti 800? I remember seeing these all the time when I lived in Belgrade!
EDIT: NVM, I’m dumb it’s a Subaru, but it looks maruti-esque
Cé hé sin
> Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
06/13/2015 at 17:29 | 0 |
Only in that location. If you stand there and turn around you see a Stag, a Figaro and a RR Silver Shadow.
Waterford is originally a Norse name.
Boxer_4
> Cé hé sin
06/13/2015 at 17:31 | 0 |
If I remember correctly, the export models were all 665 CC and 758 CC, so no supercharged versions. I’m a little rusty on my pre-VIVIO Subaru Kei cars.
Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
> Cé hé sin
06/13/2015 at 17:32 | 0 |
Awesome. It sort of looks like it’s outside a pub though, but I guess every house in Éire looks like that from a Norwegian point of view :P
I know Waterford is a Norse name.. hence Vedrafjörður ;)
Cé hé sin
> Boxer_4
06/13/2015 at 17:33 | 0 |
We certainly never got the supercharged ones. The Signet was followed by the Vivio and then by nothing because slow sales and strong yen.
Steve in Manhattan
> boredalways
06/13/2015 at 17:33 | 0 |
I know we had a Justy, I just don’t know how it was related to this.
Boxer_4
> Cé hé sin
06/13/2015 at 17:41 | 0 |
That’s what I thought, but I wasn’t sure. Subaru stopped sending Kei cars to the US after the 360 and second generation Sambar.
duurtlang
> Cé hé sin
06/13/2015 at 18:04 | 0 |
In the Netherlands these things were called, and I’m not making this up, the Subaru Mini Jumbo. The one in my picture might be older, but as far as I know they were called Mini Jumbo from 1982 to 1992. Late ones, like the one in your picture, even had a little elephant in the badge.
Cé hé sin
> duurtlang
06/13/2015 at 18:05 | 0 |
We had them too! The model before the Signet was the Mini Jumbo.
duurtlang
> Cé hé sin
06/13/2015 at 18:06 | 0 |
They went from Mini Jumbo straight to Vivio here. No Signet.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> Cé hé sin
06/14/2015 at 05:30 | 0 |
Sherpa!
2 cyl of throbbing power!
Cé hé sin
> pip bip - choose Corrour
06/14/2015 at 05:32 | 0 |
Sherpa? That’s yet another name.
It’s a four though, the predecessor was a twin as I recall.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> Cé hé sin
06/14/2015 at 05:35 | 0 |
definitely sold here in Oz as Sherpa , might have had a 3cyl.
either 2 or 3cyl , not 4cyl
Cé hé sin
> pip bip - choose Corrour
06/14/2015 at 08:16 | 0 |
Ah, there was a change in about 1989. Your Sherpa became a Fiori and got the EN08 758cc four, ours kept the Signet name but became the M80 with the same engine. Before that it had been the M70 with a 665cc twin.
Looking again at the picture I see the insurance expired in 2011 so it seems to be part of an unused collection.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> Cé hé sin
06/14/2015 at 08:28 | 0 |
forgot about the Fiori.
Nauraushaun
> Cé hé sin
06/16/2015 at 09:03 | 0 |
Pretty sure Australia got it as the Fiori. There’s one nearby, I’ll endeavour to snap a pic for the oppo :D