[karlosdeville]

Originally Posted by sabret00the

@ 1100D : that's a pretty definitive answer man..okay so the Lada is a Fiat and in India we know it as the 118NE & 1.38D if I'am wrong...all these years I used to think Lada was a Ruskie car.

Well, Lada was the Russian equivalent of Fiat, much as Premier was to India. Ladas were also sold in many other countries, unlike Premier.

[sabret00the]

^^^ oh okay so I was partly correct...having said that unlike Jeremy Clarkson I somehow like happen the design of the Lada/118NE/1.38D...it was a decent looking car...
OT: for some strange reason everything I like goes out of production or doesnt sell in India..for eg.contessa,standard 2000,118NE,309,ford escort,tata estate,etc and my bike...

[1100D]

Originally Posted by sabret00the

^^^ oh okay so I was partly correct...having said that unlike Jeremy Clarkson I somehow like happen the design of the Lada/118NE/1.38D...it was a decent looking car...
OT: for some strange reason everything I like goes out of production or doesnt sell in India..for eg.contessa,standard 2000,118NE,309,ford escort,tata estate,etc and my bike...

Thats the flow of times. Those cars, if launched today would be criticised for being boxy and too old.

But you somehow have to take comfort in the fact that some nice designs like the Camaro and Charger are coming back, even BMW's are cleaning up, so are Mercs. Very soon those lines would percolate to the cars that we see around us.

[sabret00the]

^^^ the new C class is a good example that merc is cleaning up it's act and going back to old school designs of the muscle era '70s

[IndrojitSircar]

Originally Posted by AMATMO

was this car ever in mumbai by any chance??

maybe sometime in 1998-99?

Originally Posted by karlosdeville

That Stoewer has always been there as far as I know. Its been at every rally for the last so many years.

Yes you are right the Stoewer has always been in calcutta and was in another district of West Bengal.

Originally Posted by AMATMO

does anybody know which cars these are?

The car on the left is Ryte craft and the other car is a custom built car on a morris chassis with an amby or fiat engine.Both these cars are owned by the same person.