A thing rarely seen

"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse) 06/13/2015 at 17:05 • Filed to: Subaru, Signet, Rex

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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

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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

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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

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Are old cool cars a common thing in Vedrafjörður / Contae Phort Láirge?

Boxer_4 > boredalways 06/13/2015 at 17:22

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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.

Dsscats > Cé hé sin 06/13/2015 at 17:23

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Oh, Kei

PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power > Cé hé sin 06/13/2015 at 17:24

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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

Cé hé sin > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh 06/13/2015 at 17:29

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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.

Boxer_4 > Cé hé sin 06/13/2015 at 17:31

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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.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > Cé hé sin 06/13/2015 at 17:32

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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 ;)

Cé hé sin > Boxer_4 06/13/2015 at 17:33

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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.

Steve in Manhattan > boredalways 06/13/2015 at 17:33

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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

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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.

duurtlang > Cé hé sin 06/13/2015 at 18:04

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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.

Cé hé sin > duurtlang 06/13/2015 at 18:05

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We had them too! The model before the Signet was the Mini Jumbo.

duurtlang > Cé hé sin 06/13/2015 at 18:06

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They went from Mini Jumbo straight to Vivio here. No Signet.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Cé hé sin 06/14/2015 at 05:30

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Sherpa!

2 cyl of throbbing power!

Cé hé sin > pip bip - choose Corrour 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.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Cé hé sin 06/14/2015 at 05:35

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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

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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.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Cé hé sin 06/14/2015 at 08:28

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forgot about the Fiori.

Nauraushaun > Cé hé sin 06/16/2015 at 09:03

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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