It looks a little odd, almost a cross between a Morris Minor & a Volkswagen Beetle.
My 2nd car was a Morris Minor, reg no 6667 MM. The first was a "sit up & beg" Ford Popular, VDT 645.
To me it reminds me of the cars the Indian manufacturer Hindustan used to build based on old English cars. The most famous being the Ambassador based on the Morris Oxford.
I didn't realise these were actually made by VW, I've seen a few on the road and just assumed the owners had painted/wrapped it themselves.
Here's an up to date version and the link tells the story of how and why VW chose to produce them in the first place.
The Polo Harlequin: When VW went crazy with colour.
Some of the best inventions were created by mistake. Penicillin, the Slinky, the pacemaker, Post-it notes, the microwave oven and safety glass, to name just a few. Then there’s the Volkswagen Polo Harlequin, or Harlekin, if you’re reading this in Europe.
Okay, the Harlequin wasn’t a mistake in the traditional sense. It wasn’t the result of an illicit affair involving Daddy Passat and Mummy Golf. Workers on the Wolfsburg production line didn’t get the instructions for the third-generation Polo horribly wrong. Instead, the car – the Harlekin name came later – was borne out of the need for a sales tool, designed to showcase the new Polo’s modularity and personalisation options.
A limited-edition run ‘continumod’ of the iconic 1970s car is being built for buyers with deep pockets – but there’s only 150 going so you'd better move fast.
Fifty years on from when the last Escort MK1 RS came off the production line, the new Mk1 RS models will be ‘an authentic continuation’ thanks to their ‘approved chassis numbers’.
Makers of the reborn Escorts, Boreham Motorworks, are in a unique position of being an official brand license partner of the Ford Motor Company, which means the high-performance variants will carry the Escort name and the Ford badge.
And while you'll get 296bhp and 10,000rpm, you’ll have to part with a lot of cash for it.
That's because the Ford Escort Mk1 RS Continumod costs from £295,000.
Production begins in late 2025 and order books are now open to put your name down... if you can afford to.
The new Escort Mk1 is promised to be ‘blueprint-accurate and period-sympathetic' to the original but will ‘combine the timeless spirit of classic cars with modern engineering, design and advanced manufacturing’.
Very different to other restomods that aren't allowed to use the licenced badges and names of the original cars on which they're based, these brand-new Escorts will have Ford-approved continuation chassis numbers, making them exceptionally rare buys.
Built new from the ground up, they won't using 'donor' original Escorts.
Offered with a choice of two petrol engines, the Escort will either come with a reimagined Ford Twin-Cam four-cylinder 1.8-litre unit which produces 182bhp or a four-cylinder 2.1-litre motorsport engine making 295bhp.
The former comes with a four-speed straight-cut manual gearbox, while the latter comes with a five-speed dogleg manual transmission.
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I'm not too sure if this is AI bull or if it is genuinely being produced as I can't find any actual news confirming it.
@lucy4
It looks a little odd, almost a cross between a Morris Minor & a Volkswagen Beetle.
My 2nd car was a Morris Minor, reg no 6667 MM. The first was a "sit up & beg" Ford Popular, VDT 645.
@lucy4
Yes, that's fair comment.
Seems like Jags aren't the only ones.
Though why a Mini would need two tanks I don't know.
Here's an up to date version and the link tells the story of how and why VW chose to produce them in the first place.
The Polo Harlequin: When VW went crazy with colour.
Some of the best inventions were created by mistake. Penicillin, the Slinky, the pacemaker, Post-it notes, the microwave oven and safety glass, to name just a few. Then there’s the Volkswagen Polo Harlequin, or Harlekin, if you’re reading this in Europe.
Okay, the Harlequin wasn’t a mistake in the traditional sense. It wasn’t the result of an illicit affair involving Daddy Passat and Mummy Golf. Workers on the Wolfsburg production line didn’t get the instructions for the third-generation Polo horribly wrong. Instead, the car – the Harlekin name came later – was borne out of the need for a sales tool, designed to showcase the new Polo’s modularity and personalisation options.
https://www.hagerty.co.uk/articles/automotive-history/vw-polo-harlequin-crazy-colour/
Here's Colin Ginn's version of the Saxon, it's definitely got an American vibe about it.
A limited-edition run ‘continumod’ of the iconic 1970s car is being built for buyers with deep pockets – but there’s only 150 going so you'd better move fast.
Fifty years on from when the last Escort MK1 RS came off the production line, the new Mk1 RS models will be ‘an authentic continuation’ thanks to their ‘approved chassis numbers’.
Makers of the reborn Escorts, Boreham Motorworks, are in a unique position of being an official brand license partner of the Ford Motor Company, which means the high-performance variants will carry the Escort name and the Ford badge.
And while you'll get 296bhp and 10,000rpm, you’ll have to part with a lot of cash for it.
That's because the Ford Escort Mk1 RS Continumod costs from £295,000.
Production begins in late 2025 and order books are now open to put your name down... if you can afford to.
The new Escort Mk1 is promised to be ‘blueprint-accurate and period-sympathetic' to the original but will ‘combine the timeless spirit of classic cars with modern engineering, design and advanced manufacturing’.
Very different to other restomods that aren't allowed to use the licenced badges and names of the original cars on which they're based, these brand-new Escorts will have Ford-approved continuation chassis numbers, making them exceptionally rare buys.
Built new from the ground up, they won't using 'donor' original Escorts.
Offered with a choice of two petrol engines, the Escort will either come with a reimagined Ford Twin-Cam four-cylinder 1.8-litre unit which produces 182bhp or a four-cylinder 2.1-litre motorsport engine making 295bhp.
The former comes with a four-speed straight-cut manual gearbox, while the latter comes with a five-speed dogleg manual transmission.
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-14189093/Return-Mk1-Ford-Escort-150-new-examples-built.html