![]() 06/13/2015 at 17:05 • Filed to: Subaru, Signet, Rex | ![]() | ![]() |
Not any more anyway.
A Subaru Signet, although it had lots of other names depending on where you bought it.
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I think in the US, it was a Justy
Edit: related but not the same
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No, it’s one step down from that. In Japan it was the Rex and was a kei car.
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Are old cool cars a common thing in Vedrafjörður / Contae Phort Láirge?
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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.
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Oh, Kei
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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
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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.
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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.
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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 ;)
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We certainly never got the supercharged ones. The Signet was followed by the Vivio and then by nothing because slow sales and strong yen.
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I know we had a Justy, I just don’t know how it was related to this.
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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.
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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.
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We had them too! The model before the Signet was the Mini Jumbo.
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They went from Mini Jumbo straight to Vivio here. No Signet.
![]() 06/14/2015 at 05:30 |
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Sherpa!
2 cyl of throbbing power!
![]() 06/14/2015 at 05:32 |
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Sherpa? That’s yet another name.
It’s a four though, the predecessor was a twin as I recall.
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definitely sold here in Oz as Sherpa , might have had a 3cyl.
either 2 or 3cyl , not 4cyl
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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.
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forgot about the Fiori.
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Pretty sure Australia got it as the Fiori. There’s one nearby, I’ll endeavour to snap a pic for the oppo :D